multiple workspace

[DV Henkel-Wallace]

On 07 Jan 2005, at 14:53, Norman Richards wrote:

> I'm evaluating omniweb and I have a question about workspaces.  Is it 
> possible to keep multiple workspaces open?  When I hit F2, for 
> example, to get to my second workspace, the windows my first workspace 
> goes away.   I can't really imagine how that would be a good behavior 
> in any environment, but it's particularly annoying for me running with 
> codetek virtual desktop.  I'd like to be able to keep one workspace 
> open on one desktop and another on another.  Right now it just doesn't 
> seem possible.  Am I missing something?
>
> Maybe a more common example would be a two monitor situation.  I 
> wouldn't normally want my omniweb windows on disappear on the second 
> display just because I changed the workspace on the window in the 
> first display.

There's no way to do this (yet? -- it's been suggested before).

Omniweb has a bunch of interesting ideas in it.  The more I use it the 
more it rewires my internal model of a web browser (and the less able I 
become to switch).

However this is despite some of the new ideas being not fully baked 
(conceptually).  Workspaces are an example.  Do you remember the move 
from Finder -> Multifinder?  That was a big conceptual leap (and one 
that many people still have trouble with!) even though the working 
model was already well understood in the research community.  But it 
took the Mac to introduce it to the PC world.

Omniweb incorporates two ideas which are still largely alien to the PC 
(Windows and Mac) world.  One is inherent to browsers: the idea that 
the document is independent of the application.  But the other is that 
of an "activity" or "workspace."

What you describe wanting from Workspaces seems very natural -- it 
corresponds very cleanly to how people work "in the real world."  But 
it doesn't (yet?) correspond to how Apple's human interface guidelines 
think you are going to be working.  Our machines have directories, 
bookmarks and the like, but they are very crude.  Workspaces gets 
closer.

I think it's cool that the OW guys implemented this feature and then 
pushed it out there.  I hope they are able to evolve it.

(Sorry to be so hifalutin' in response to a simple question).

-d