From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 03:51:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120604035155.6c4b7741@inari.ethans.dre.am> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMdzYRoOhYF_UbW_Ckw3ov_EhNYPOSzHyzX1GpqGsz6D1xDkug@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 02:53:21 +0100
Connor Lane Smith <cls@lubutu.com> wrote:
> On 3 June 2012 02:40, Stephen Wiley <swwiley@gmail.com> wrote:
> > One thing that I can see is that the 40 billion windows you open are all
> > grouped together and don't get in your way when using other apps. (One of
> > the things I like about osx is that it does that with all the apps)
> >
> > Though I guess you could script rio to group things with similar labels
> > together...
>
> I remember reading this being cited as one of the reasons why sam's
> "windows within a window" flayer approach is preferred amongst long
> time users. In my opinion, if the window manager is having difficulty
> managing windows, it isn't doing a very good job. Instead of resorting
> to handling windowing within each and every application, we ought to
> treat the source of the problem. That may be by making rio group
> similar labels, but I'm inclined to think that a "canal" -- a tiling
> window manager, effectively -- would be a better approach in the long
> run.
And I'm thinking of nested window managers of differing types according
to the user's choice. I guess I didn't make that clear, judging by this
and all the following posts in this subthread. ;)
--
This is obviously some strange usage of the
word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.
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2012-05-30 6:30 Lucio De Re
2012-05-30 6:28 ` John Floren
2012-05-30 6:51 ` Lucio De Re
2012-05-30 10:40 ` tlaronde
2012-05-30 12:51 ` Lucio De Re
2012-05-30 14:52 ` Anthony Sorace
2012-05-30 15:20 ` Richard Miller
2012-05-30 15:25 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-30 16:15 ` Calvin Morrison
2012-05-30 16:17 ` John Floren
2012-05-30 16:20 ` Richard Miller
2012-05-30 16:38 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2012-05-30 16:23 ` Calvin Morrison
2012-05-30 16:42 ` tlaronde
2012-05-30 16:57 ` hiro
2012-05-30 17:28 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-31 4:10 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-05-31 7:37 ` tlaronde
2012-05-31 18:00 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-31 18:58 ` tlaronde
2012-05-31 11:32 ` Anthony Sorace
2012-06-03 0:36 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-05-30 16:56 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-05-31 18:05 ` steve
2012-05-31 18:18 ` John Floren
2012-06-01 11:54 ` Uriel
2012-05-31 18:24 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
[not found] ` <CAL4LZyjmBSx3KV3tOyaPBMoT2CNqXPs6ZGd89S7UYQ1E5Ewy2A@mail.gmail.c>
2012-05-31 18:49 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-31 18:55 ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-31 19:01 ` tlaronde
2012-06-03 1:12 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-03 1:33 ` Connor Lane Smith
2012-06-04 2:48 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-04 3:15 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-04 4:01 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-04 12:42 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-08 8:56 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-08 13:58 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-08 14:58 ` David Leimbach
2012-06-08 15:22 ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-06-08 15:27 ` David Leimbach
[not found] ` <CAJJ04x7Gd1sLizxnp9RT=45G5rGCYA3ygn-ebLvSSBW+UwOdtA@mail.gmail.c>
2012-06-08 15:44 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-08 20:15 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-09 6:00 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-09 13:23 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-06-09 13:59 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-09 14:28 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-09 14:51 ` Lucio De Re
2012-06-09 15:51 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-09 14:29 ` Lucio De Re
2012-06-09 15:37 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-09 15:49 ` Lucio De Re
2012-06-09 15:53 ` Lucio De Re
2012-06-09 16:31 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-09 16:52 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-09 17:37 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-09 18:11 ` hiro
2012-06-09 18:28 ` Matthew Veety
2012-06-09 19:03 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-06-10 6:27 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-10 6:31 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-06-10 12:27 ` hiro
2012-06-11 8:54 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2012-06-09 15:44 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-08 21:05 ` David Leimbach
2012-06-09 13:52 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
[not found] ` <CAJJ04x5EB7SJ2jijr=xgYf18CghUuoK9JOf9VbbTrVtDsh2YMw@mail.gmail.c>
2012-06-09 0:20 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-10 19:07 ` David Leimbach
2012-06-03 1:40 ` Stephen Wiley
2012-06-03 1:53 ` Connor Lane Smith
2012-06-03 4:03 ` Bruce Ellis
2012-06-03 9:40 ` Connor Lane Smith
2012-06-04 2:51 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
[not found] ` <CAMdzYRojKQrNWg11b=nFw8hkg6KV6VQA5xgjbn8Z6K=K+adkPQ@mail.gmail.c>
2012-06-03 1:46 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-03 8:34 ` Richard Miller
2012-05-30 17:36 ` Bakul Shah
2012-05-30 17:41 ` sl
2012-05-31 4:11 ` Lucio De Re
2012-06-01 20:40 Antonio Barrones
2012-06-03 0:31 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-03 0:43 ` Bakul Shah
2012-06-03 1:23 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-03 1:49 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-09 16:10 Jason Catena
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