This is the way I always did it on Mac, and now do it on Cosmic.
Almost always I want windows to have the full real-estate of the screen (editor, browser, etc) so tiling rarely makes sense for me and instead I want to be able to rapidly change between windows.
So using whole workspaces as a side-to-side carousel where I can flip back and forth between adjacent ones in a moment has been my go-to workflow for 15 years already.
Same here. I also like to have specific types of apps on specific desktops so that I always know that, for example, Super+2 is my web browser, Super+4 is email and Signal etc.
I’m much more effective on a fixed layout of things rather than searching for the app I need visually.
The independent virtual desktop per screen in KDE 6.7, Cosmic, and macOS(which I’m pretty sure has had it working like that the longest) was really such a game changer for me. The all screens changin was always so awkward.
And coupling it with a mouse that has a center-left and center-right click on its scrolling wheel which get remapped to switch desktop in the respective directions is silky smooth.
I did like the tiling in Cosmic a lot though and wouldn’t mind incorporating it into a single desktop or screen.
This is the way I always did it on Mac, and now do it on Cosmic.
Almost always I want windows to have the full real-estate of the screen (editor, browser, etc) so tiling rarely makes sense for me and instead I want to be able to rapidly change between windows.
So using whole workspaces as a side-to-side carousel where I can flip back and forth between adjacent ones in a moment has been my go-to workflow for 15 years already.
Same here. I also like to have specific types of apps on specific desktops so that I always know that, for example, Super+2 is my web browser, Super+4 is email and Signal etc.
I’m much more effective on a fixed layout of things rather than searching for the app I need visually.
I don’t do strictly fixed, but I do relative, for example my terminal is left of my IDE, my browser is right.
Using workspaces as instantly switchable ‘screens’ also helps make presentations and demos really slick, i find.
You can screen-share the whole monitor and then flick between your deck and code and a browser very cleanly with no window fumbling.
The independent virtual desktop per screen in KDE 6.7, Cosmic, and macOS(which I’m pretty sure has had it working like that the longest) was really such a game changer for me. The all screens changin was always so awkward.
And coupling it with a mouse that has a center-left and center-right click on its scrolling wheel which get remapped to switch desktop in the respective directions is silky smooth.
I did like the tiling in Cosmic a lot though and wouldn’t mind incorporating it into a single desktop or screen.