For touch devices running GNOME, you can easily swipe left or right using fingers which is super cool. You can easily drag or scroll the workspaces left or right. And the running applications are shown in small blocks inside the active workspace. When you click on the Activities, the workspaces are arranged horizontally. Clicking the Activities again brings up the last highlighted window.Īlso while inside the Activities view, the application menu completely overlays the activities overview screen today.
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While the workspace switcher at the right side scrolls vertically. When you first click the Activities (or trigger via Super key) today, it shows the current workspace running applications in a grid. To compare, here is how the activities navigation works today in GNOME 3.38. This is also very easy to use for touch devices as well where it’s natural to swipe left or right using gestures. Soon, the important Activities overview and navigation of workspaces is horizontal in GNOME 40. We know for a while that things are going horizontal way in GNOME 40 already such as the App Grid. GNOME Activties with workspace and App view (proposed design) GNOME 40 Workspace Navigation They are still in the very early stage of dev and not merged to the GNOME 40 master branch yet. The new design is so easy and immersive that people may be migrating to GNOME from other desktop environments.īefore you read on, remember these changes are expected to land in GNOME 40.
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The workspace navigation is going to change completely in GNOME 40.