Hello, I do almost the same. However, I'm a "clean" person, and never use icons on my desktop. But.. All my games and "fun stuff" is in a so called drawer. So when I want to play a game, e.g Neverwinter Nights, I open up my drawer, press the appropriate button, and enjoy the game. When I feel that I have to work, I close the game, and the drawer. I defined some metacity shortcuts in gconf-editor (is there an application for it already?), so when I press Ctrl-Alt-G, my editor (gvim) starts; for Ctrl-Alt-F, firefox starts up. It's kinda workaround feeling, but it works for me for about a year now. Regards, Gergely POLONKAI William Case írta: > Hi; > > I need some advice. I want to put in a feature request but I am not > sure where it should go. Workspace Switcher; Metacity; or Gnome -- > whatever ?? > > For over 2 years now I have been trying to somehow solve the following > problem: I want 2 or 3 completely different Desk Top environments. > Call them my 'Play' environment and my 'Work' environment. > > 'Play' is usually a mess, a fun picture for a background; panel full of > icons, launchers all over the screen. When I have work to do, I like to > work clean. A simple background; sparse panel with only icons for those > applications I use often in my work; file launchers for just the files I > need for a project; research based bookmarks for frequently used > URL's. > > However, and here is where I get into problems, I want one mailbox for > Evolution whether at 'work' or 'play'; a shared 'NoteCase' whether at > 'work' or 'play'; and a shared 'tvtimes' to follow breaking news events. > > No work around seems to get all this. I have tried setting myself up as > two different users; I have tried hard and soft linking my mailbox, > calandar, todo etc. > > If I were a programmer, and IDE would kind of do the trick but my work > projects are all non-IT. > > The ideal solution would be to have a cross between a work place > switcher; gdmflexiserver; session manager; and, desktop switcher. For > example a new applet (which is beyond my abilities to create) that would > keep the X windows running; remove the current panels, background and > desktop and replace them with what I have chosen for that 'work' or > 'play' environment. I would simply have a name for each environment > that could be launched as I needed it. > > I could have the best of both worlds; keeping the applications that I > use in both environments alive (same UID); while replacing everything > else -- maybe each environment could be password protected. It strikes > me that this is not an unusual feature request. Surely many people > using computers have two or three compartments to their lives. > Commercial artists who want to separate their Gimp setup etc. for work > from recreational environments for themselves and their kids; Corporate > workers who want to keep their home environment separate from work that > they have to do at home; or as in my case, a place to play and a place > to work that looks and feels like separate places for work and play. > > As I started out saying, that's the feature request I want to ask for > but I don't know who I should ask it of. > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
