Currently the new horizontal workspace switcher only shows a series of
buttons, with no indication of the workspaces' contents. Go full GNOME 2
and add tiny draggable preview rectangles that represent the windows
on a particular workspace.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions/merge_requests/74
Unlike in GNOME 2, the workspace indicator we display in the window list
isn't a workspace switcher, but a menu button that allows switching
workspaces via its menu. The reason for that is that a horizontal
in-place switcher would be at odds with the vertical workspace layout
used in GNOME 3.
However that reasoning doesn't apply when the layout is changed to a
horizontal one, so replace the button with a traditional workspace
switcher in that case.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions/merge_requests/70
Just like the top bar, the window list should scale according to
the font scaling factor, so convert the existing pixel sizes into
font-relative ones.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703585
The workspace button used to extend to the bottom edge, which of
course is A Good Thing (tm) - commit ec8f269107 broke this when
it added an additional container to the hierarchy, expand the
button again to bring back the old mouse-friendly behavior.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708247
-st-natural-width is useful to request a larger-than-usual width,
add back the max-width removed in commit 702cf52cfc to also request
a smaller-than-usual width as necessary.
Items in the window list should take up a fixed amount of space
unless the list is full and items need to shrink. To achieve this,
replace the max-width with the newly added -st-natural-width.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695392
This is the most basic version of a workspace switcher, taken from
Frippery Bottom Panel and adapted. It handles clicks and scrolls,
and does not show window thumbnails or shapes.
Note that, differently from the frippery version, it won't change
the workspace layout, and actually assume a linear vertical layout,
which is then shown horizontally. This is to keep compatibility
with the overview, which uses a vertical layout.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694914
Florian Müllner
Giovanni Campagna
Matthias Clasen