From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <451cb30105021610592d7b2b0f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:59:21 +0200 From: McLone the Great To: "g01495@gmail.com" , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Evolving rio / GUI development In-Reply-To: <8c029c990502160945781f293d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8c029c990502160945781f293d@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0a6f8280-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:45:14 -0600, g01495@gmail.com wrote: > I find rio very usable, but I also find I spend alot of my time "using > rio". When I say this I mean moving windows, organizing the screen, > hiding windows, resizing things. I won't comment rio, used it not so long; but for X window... 17'' all around, at 1152x864 or 1024x768; almost all windows - fullscreen, so i'm using mostly Ctrl+A because of nested screen(1)s and Win+A because i bind virtual desks to it. In case of 1280x1024 or better, i use Alt+Tab etc, so good task-switch-previewer is a must [as in MacOSX/Aqua]. Personally i dislike window hiding - shading is for me. Also i found tabbed windows useable [as in fluxbox-stable] on high-res displays My X wm's often driven by keys, not mouse. I have bindings in {open,flux}box or {bad,evil}wm to place windows in a smart way, so they don't move in a merely weeks.On a mouse i use wheel. Win32/gnome's/kde's etc. WMs/DEs all unuseable as for me, and i don't need no taskbars/icons/applets. Think "CUI freak". > What does everybody else think about this? to think not in a main[stream] "slab" is a task for chosen one. Especially when one talks about GUIs. -- wbr, |\ _,,,---,,_ dog bless ya! ` Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ McLone at GMail dot com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' net- and *BSD admin '---''(_/--' `-'\_) ...sorry for emgrish