better placement in overview

[brianjmurrell]

In the overview, it would be better if the placement took into account the width and height of the view of the workspaces and placed them horizontally and not vertically if that provides better use of screen real-estate.

See this screen shot:

Clearly that would be much better displayed horizontally (i.e. across the top or bottom) than it is vertically currently. So much screen space is wasted in that vertical overview on the right.

[spacekookie]

I've always thought that (at least for widescreens) showing that little overview at the bottom of the screen would be much better. There would be a lot less wasted space then for sure...

[mrmoss]

Nothing on this for going up to a year - but I'm a fan of this...so...

If you prefer the default vertical placement of workspaces, the default layout is obviously better. Maybe adding an option in the extension's settings to set the position of thumbnail switcher to the top/bottom/left/right would be better?

I've been poking around trying to implement this myself, but I'm not making a whole lot of progress...

I'm pretty sure something like the above should be as easy as setting the max-width/max-height and the anchor position, right?

Edit: Looks like #64 is essentially this...

[sanwablo]

Could there also be the option to show the workspace overview on the left and on the top?

I personally would prefer it on the left, as the pointer is on that side of the screen after launching activities with the mouse.