In working briefly with KDE (prior to version 3) am I correct, the Folders, Shortcuts, etc. stay put when you shift Desktops, while the applications move? Perhaps I’ve become accustomed to the opposite arrangement, but I was disappointed when I saw what was happening.

I have become used to the Desktop’s contents changing, while the running applications remain accessible (either Maximized, or Minimized) in the tabs at the bottom of the screen. At least, this is how StarOffice was designed to work, and it seems to function well.

Yes, I do use the Multiple Virtual Desktops, with about a dozen set-up on the Desktop Menu, and half that number in frequent and regular use. They are accessible with a right-click on the Suite’s Desktop Icon. A left-click on the same Icon displays whichever Desktop has the check-mark next to it.

Do the newer versions of KDE function more like StarOffice’s Desktops (I hope) in that one can change their contents completely, and not only switch running applications?

I pretty much use virtual desktops for multitasking… So, for example, say I’m reading a web article and then writing about it in a text editor. The text editor is in one desktop and the article is another. Switching between them is as easy as pressing WIN + 1, WIN + 2… (with no annoying pop up when you press TAB + SHIFT). (I use openbox, btw.) Otherwise, I don’t care where stuff is… Apps are located in the desktop I opened them.

My main machine is running OS X 10.5 at the moment, so I have 6 workspaces, one always has Firefox, one has iTunes, the others vary. When needed, one of them will have a full screen Windows VM running in Fusion.

On that Windows VM I run AltDesk with 6 windows. AltDeks is a Windows window manager I’ve used for about 5 years now. It’s really very good and well worth the $20 I paid for it then.

Sometimes I’ll have a VNC session running too, usually to a Linux machine somewhere with it’s own window manager, probably 4 to 6 windows.

That’s a lot of workspaces when I list them out, but their hierarchical arrangements means it all works fine. Keyboard shortcuts for changing from one to another are essential though!

Yeh, we windows people are lame…

I use 4 virtual desktops on two screens.
1a – IDE
1b – Firefox and/or terminal windows, for debugging
2 – Misc. -> Files, documenting, archiving, teminal, virtual machines
3- Web
4a – Mail (Thunderbird)
4b – Webmail

1. KNotes
2. Firefox
3. Screen, when I script something and for porn
4. Amarok or midnight commander ftp-sessions to my xbox running XBMC

Terminals are used randomly all over the place when I need them.

Like Dawn above, I tend to have the terminals first, then IceWeasel (firefox), IceDove (Thunderbird), then vim for coding.
I use Awesome which by default has 9 available tags, but I think I’ve never used more than 5 or 6.

In Windows I used VirtuaWin, but it was kind of slow. Now I almost never boot it (specially since I started re-playing Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which runs better in Linux than Windows).

On Windows, I’ve tried VirtuaWin, but found it bloated. Then I used Virtual Dimension, but this app is barely maintained. Se the forum on SourceForge.
At the moment, I have a dual-widescreen setup (at work, that is) which makes virtual desktops less relevant.

Shareware program Deskspace (I do not use, but Hak.5 mentioned it) for Windows…

I’m not big on the whole cube thing though; so the programs a bit of a “We can do Beryl I mean Compiz-Fusion too!”

Workspaces are not necessary for me, but I had gotten used to them before I switched back to windows for audio work.

Isohunt it. The mentionings above appear reasonable;
Litestep in my opinion is lame.

I find most other shells for Windows to be lame actually…
Not only in their non-productiveness, but also their unsupported glitchy little eccentricities.

-Good Day

I think I mentioned this somewhere here before but here it goes again:
1. Web related tasks like mutt, messaging, browser
2. Strictly to coding and debugging related tasks (one fullscreen vim)
3. Apis or something as useful. At the moment the datasheet for Elfa 07551187 LCD-screen.
4. “The others”
5. Buffer. Workspace where are all those applications that would otherwise make another workspace crowded.

I’m a terminal-person, nearly everything I do is done from terminal. Be it coding, checking email or starting programs. I don’t think I even have a file-browser installed. I’m using Fluxbox which tiles windows so that they are directly adjacent of each other (two-dimensional array). I can fit 4 rxvt-unicodes within a workspace and after that, they go to buffer.