WHY the cube? How do you make pragmatic use of workspaces?

[SunnyRabbiera]

The other big example is GIMP which doesn't have a master window like photoshop ..the UI gets a lot of complaints from microsoft-dependants.. but it makes perfect sense when you can just devote one whole desktop to it.

Not with more recent versions of the GIMP

[Tibuda]

Not with more recent versions of the GIMP

What happened in these versions?

[hessiess]

The cube and compositing in general is complelty useless, however if you topically have loads of windows open, organising it on one desktop is virtually imposable, at which point you start dumping apps onto another workspace, or switch to a tiling WM.

Thease days I cannot stand working on a platform without workspaces.

Not with more recent versions of the GIMP.

That is a pain as it breaks alt+tabing, thankfully gimp still works normally in DWM.

[Grenage]

Not with more recent versions of the GIMP

Are you sure you're not thinking of the window hack? It's still separate windows on my 2.6.