From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1aba9f7b0606072243i66d83ca0v259541175e9491c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:13:03 +0930 From: "Simon Williams" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 In-Reply-To: <1149744360.10189.22.camel@heater.intranet.ebr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_7022_20656269.1149745383305" References: <44879B05.6050706@lanl.gov> <44879EC5.3050105@lanl.gov> <1149744360.10189.22.camel@heater.intranet.ebr> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6045eb44-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_7022_20656269.1149745383305 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Dont knock the paper clip - just the implementation 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. Simon On 6/8/06, ems wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 21:51 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > What if you had a window manager that could be recursive? that would set > > it up so you can name windows by a path name? that would let you treat > > the recursive desktops -- to any level -- as just another window? that > > would trivially allow you to connect mouse clicks in a window to control > > actions for one or more other windows (i.e. you could logically group > > windows and then control all of them via mouse clicks)? That would maybe > > let you easily connect output from a process in one window to another? > > that would let you build little widgets that could easily control other > > windows? That would let you display all window state in another window? > > That would let you set, say, all windows with a browser with the label > > abaco-### (### a number), with a simple text command; and let you find > > all windows with the label abaco.* with, in the limit, a grep? That > > would make it easy to group all windows with the label 'abaco.*' so that > > you could say 'hide all abaco' with a simple script? > > ________________________ > | It looks like you're | > | playing with rio. | > | | > | Would you like help? | > | | > | * Get help with | > | hiding windows | > | | > | * Just hide the | > | windows without | > | help | > | _ | > ||_| Don't show me | > | this tip again | > |______ ______________| > \ | > \| > Glenda > > Sorry, I couldn't help myself. (BTW, is there ACSII Glenda anywhere?) > ------=_Part_7022_20656269.1149745383305 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Dont knock the paper clip - just the implementation
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.
Simon

On 6/8/06, ems <oat@iinet.net.au> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 21:51 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> What if you had a window manager that could be recursive? that would set
> it up so you can name windows by a path name? that would let you treat
> the recursive desktops -- to any level -- as just another window? that
> would trivially allow you to connect mouse clicks in a window to control
> actions for one or more other windows (i.e. you could logically group
> windows and then control all of them via mouse clicks)? That would maybe
> let you easily connect output from a process in one window to another?
> that would let you build little widgets that  could easily control other
> windows? That would let you display all window state in another window?
> That would let you set, say, all windows with a browser with the label
> abaco-### (### a number), with a simple text command; and let you find
> all windows with the label abaco.* with, in the limit, a grep? That
> would make it easy to group all windows with the label 'abaco.*' so that
> you could say 'hide all abaco' with a simple script?

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      Glenda

Sorry, I couldn't help myself. (BTW, is there ACSII Glenda anywhere?)

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