Workspace management tool
AssigneeRed Hat, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Jon McCann, Jeremy Gray Perry
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Abstract
A method for providing a workspace management tool includes presenting a workspace overview graphical user interface (GUI) having a first area and a second area. The first area includes visual indicators of favorite applications of a user, and the second area includes multiple regions, each region representing a different work space. The method further includes receiving, via the workspace overview GUI, a user request to open a new window for one of the favorite applications in a first work space, adding the new window to the first work space, and presenting the new window in a reduced form in a region representing the first work space without overlapping other open windows of the first work space.
Claims22
A method, implemented by a computing system programmed to perform the following, comprising:
- presenting, on a display device of the computing system, a workspace overview graphical user interface (GUI) having a first area and a second area, the first area comprising visual indicators of favorite applications of a user, and the second area comprising a plurality of regions, each region representing a different work space;
- receiving, via the workspace overview GUI, a user request to open a new window for one of the favorite applications in a first work space;
- adding, by the computing system, the new window to the first work space;
- and presenting, on the display device, the new window in a reduced form in a region representing the first work space without overlapping other open windows of the first work space.
A computer readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a set of operations comprising:
- presenting, on a display device of the computing system, a workspace overview graphical user interface (GUI) having a first area and a second area, the first area comprising visual indicators of favorite applications of a user, and the second area comprising a plurality of regions, each region representing a different work space;
- receiving, via the workspace overview GUI, a user request to open a new window for one of the favorite applications in a first work space;
- adding, by the computing system, the new window to the first work space;
- and
- presenting, on the display device, the new window in a reduced form in a region representing the first work space without overlapping other open windows of the first work space.
A computing system comprising:
- a memory;
- a display device coupled to the memory;
- at least one processor coupled to the memory;
- and
- an operating system executed by the at least one processor to:
- present, on the display device, a workspace overview graphical user interface (GUI) having a first area and a second area, the first area comprising visual indicators of favorite applications of a user, and the second area comprising a plurality of regions, each region representing a different work space;
- receive, via the workspace overview GUI, a user request to open a new window for one of the favorite applications in a first work space;
- add the new window to the first work space;
- and
- presenting, on the display device, the new window in a reduced form in a region representing the first work space without overlapping other open windows of the first work space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.