Hi Noctalia team! 👋 I’d like to suggest a new feature for the shell: Workspace Preview. How it would work: Each workspace would have a visual area in the workspace bar. If there are open windows in the workspace, only the icon of the focused window would be displayed in that area. When the focus changes to another window in the same workspace, the icon would update dynamically to reflect the active window. Benefits: Clean and intuitive interface, without cluttering the workspace bar with multiple window icons. Quickly shows which window is active in each workspace. Easy to implement, as it only relies on the active window per workspace, without tracking all open windows. I’ve attached a screen recording illustrating the concept and user experience. I believe this feature could provide an additional way to visualize workspaces in Noctalia. Thank you for your time and attention! https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f1ade38c-5b3e-43e1-a0fc-4787c9fd2941
Hi Noctalia team! 👋
I’d like to suggest a new feature for the shell: Workspace Preview.
How it would work:
Each workspace would have a visual area in the workspace bar.
If there are open windows in the workspace, only the icon of the focused window would be displayed in that area.
When the focus changes to another window in the same workspace, the icon would update dynamically to reflect the active window.
Benefits:
Clean and intuitive interface, without cluttering the workspace bar with multiple window icons.
Quickly shows which window is active in each workspace.
Easy to implement, as it only relies on the active window per workspace, without tracking all open windows.
I’ve attached a screen recording illustrating the concept and user experience.
I believe this feature could provide an additional way to visualize workspaces in Noctalia.
Thank you for your time and attention!
2026-02-07T00-34-03-646Z.mp4