Dont knock the paper clip - just the implementation<br>The people who designed it ( at Microsoft Research ) are seriously excellent Bayesan statisticians who names i have forgotten ( apologies ). The problem for the marketroids was that it didnt appear often enough for them to sell it as a feature so they took all the careful tuned parameters and wound them up to 11 creating the monster we have today.
<br>Simon<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">ems</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:oat@iinet.net.au">oat@iinet.net.au</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 21:51 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:<br>&gt; What if you had a window manager that could be recursive? that would set<br>&gt; it up so you can name windows by a path name? that would let you treat<br>
&gt; the recursive desktops -- to any level -- as just another window? that<br>&gt; would trivially allow you to connect mouse clicks in a window to control<br>&gt; actions for one or more other windows (i.e. you could logically group
<br>&gt; windows and then control all of them via mouse clicks)? That would maybe<br>&gt; let you easily connect output from a process in one window to another?<br>&gt; that would let you build little widgets that&nbsp;&nbsp;could easily control other
<br>&gt; windows? That would let you display all window state in another window?<br>&gt; That would let you set, say, all windows with a browser with the label<br>&gt; abaco-### (### a number), with a simple text command; and let you find
<br>&gt; all windows with the label abaco.* with, in the limit, a grep? That<br>&gt; would make it easy to group all windows with the label 'abaco.*' so that<br>&gt; you could say 'hide all abaco' with a simple script?<br>
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<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \ |<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\|<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Glenda<br><br>Sorry, I couldn't help myself. (BTW, is there ACSII Glenda anywhere?)<br></blockquote></div><br>