my favourite feature has been killed

[Don Christensen]

Bruce Miller wrote:
...
> One feature I think I miss, is some visual cue to distinguish
> the workspaces -- my workspaces have similar window arrangements,
> just different stuff _in_ the windows...
> 
> Something like different backgrounds per workspace, or some other
> theming difference, or the workspace name visible somewhere or ... ?
> 
> Does anything like this sound desirable/doable ?

I've been thinking about the same sort of thing.  I sometimes start
an xterm and make it a single line high, do "echo Bug #xxxx - description",
and then scroll it back to display the echo output.  I know there are
better ways to display a line of text, but I just haven't taken the time
to look into them.

It would be cool if there was something simple built in to the window
manager to do this.  Or maybe a panel plugin that would track the current
workspace and display either the workspace name or a configurable string.
If I wasn't so busy at the moment (I'm even about 500 msgs behind in this
list alone), I might take this as an opportunity to learn how to do a
panel plugin.  Hopefully someone will beat me to it. :-)

-Don

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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