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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.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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