Post your desk!

[xwhatsit]

Yep, that's why I generally don't use them either. I like things to be side-by-side; hence the love for dual screens

The comment on RAM usage was in reference to NighthawkNZ's comment about feature bloat.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

I'm talking about virtual desktops as in the tiny lightweight feature (maybe 2-3kB -- yes kB, not mB -- of RAM) that has been kicking around in window managers since the late 80s.

Im not confused... 2 to 3 kb of ram so it is still using resourses that would be better off being used for sothing else... heck even if it was one line of code and 0.00005kb it still is at the end of the day resourses being used

this is not a whole other application, rather a base feature built into the core window manager. You don't have to use it either; you can continue to use your computer as if the other 3 desktops don't exist, it's just like normal. This is what I do most of the time. A feature that I never use taking an extra 5kB of RAM is hardly a big issue when I'm using 50-60mB (that's 51200-61440kB) less of RAM overall compared to Windows.

as above, in some ways it would perfer it to be a seperate appilcation so if I didn't want to use it then its not loaded with the core OS or window manager, which in some resept I find the MS Windows virtual desktops managers better because if not used, not loaded...

When in use they use a little bit more memory, which application is open and in which virtual desktop etc... (and also remember each desktop can have different settings) again might be tiny bit of memory but still would prefer that memory being put to better use.

Not that I'm going to disrespect Windows (which is a perfectly valid and useable operating system),

why not I do all the time and I use it more than Linux

but just pointing out it's a tiny amount in the grand scheme of things, and hardly feature bloat -- and I'm a chap who uses vim and programs in C, so that's a big thing for me to say

My point is a bloating software, happens no matter what as new features are introduced (yes I know Virtual Desktops have been around for yonks) I didn't see the point of them back then and don't see the point of them now... but each to there own

ah... wouldn't work for me, when the vast amount of my time is spent comparing or referring to something, so they need to be side by side. I just run a large desktop space, with a double or triple height taskbar. As NighthawkNZ said anyway, you work the way thats best for you.

exactly, each to there own

Yep, that's why I generally don't use them either. I like things to be side-by-side; hence the love for dual screens

The comment on RAM usage was in reference to NighthawkNZ's comment about feature bloat.

I prefer dual screens as well, especially when I am editing video, and as I said even if they were 1 line of code and only took up 0.00005kb of ram I would rather have my system using that 0.00005kb of ram processing that video, or audio file or graphic image

[vifferman]

This is where I am paid to sit'n browse the Interdweeb, post shit on KiwiBiker, etc.



I feel a desperate need for a caffeinated beverage coming on...

[crashe]

This is where I am paid to sit'n browse the Interdweeb, post shit on KiwiBiker, etc.



I feel a desperate need for a caffeinated beverage coming on...

awwww I like the little tool box that is placed on the other table... already out to do work on the bike....

What a tidy desk.......!

[crashe]

Ack Shirley, that's the "Bob the Builder" toolbox, awarded to any programmer who breaks the build.
I'm very temped (seeing it's within arm's length) to change the sticker from "Yes we can!" to "No. It's fukt!"


It's tidy because I don't do any actual work.
And because a tidy desk is a sign of a sick mind.

My desk is a blardy mess at the moment.......

As long as there is room to stick my legs up on the table and lean back in my chair then I am happy....... I reckon, one must be relaxed when working at a comp.....

[crashe]

My blardy messy desk.......
There is also a stool just in front of the chair to rest up my sore knee on.....

[rwh]

ah... wouldn't work for me, when the vast amount of my time is spent comparing or referring to something, so they need to be side by side. I just run a

I use both (actually, my second screen is my laptop, controlled from my desktop's keyboard and mouse using synergy).

Sure, it's useful to have things side by side to compare, and multiple screens are very useful for that. There's also things that don't need to be compared - I don't need to have a KB browser next to anything else, and usually email and irc aren't related to much else either. I keep these things on separate virtual desktops - as well as things I'd rather have adjacent, but don't have the screens for.

IIRC I have 6 virtual desktops on my desktop, and 5 on my laptop. I only usually use one of the laptop's at work, but at home, I might have trademe (and related search windows) on one, KB (and related movie players or whatever) on another, email on another etc. Mostly I don't use them all, but they're there when I need them. And a second screen on a laptop is a little impractical, when not used at a regular location.

Richard