Since I was nicely asked to do so, I’ll write a blog entry about this stuff, that’s been happening around me.

Workspace switcher

The workspace siwtcher got a facelift for the upcoming GNOME 2.16. Besides some visual improvements, you’ll notice from the above animation that dragging items around is now real drag and drop with proper highlighting and prelighting. It’s also now possible to drag windows from the tasklist to the pager. Says Vincent:

This is awesome. I don't understand how we could live without this!

Volume Applet

It seems to be a not so well known fact that using the Ctrl key, you can select multiple tracks to control. This is especially useful for people who have a different volume track for headphones and speakers on their Laptop.