From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44879EC5.3050105@lanl.gov> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 21:51:33 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 References: <44879B05.6050706@lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <44879B05.6050706@lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 60202bf2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 so, end of this thread, we hope. GARSH, Mickey, I had no idea this would happen. You make one simple comment, and ... ah well. anyways, a few thoughts on another tangent. linux nowadays is all about building a windows desktop. BORING. Or a Mac OSX ripoff desktop. BORING. And just look at all that great vista stuff. oh boy, I can slant my windows or something. Who the F*** cares? 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? Wouldn't that be neat? I mean, that's a real bitch in X, right? Except ... you already have it. ron