From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8c029c990502171256b4c6532@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:56:30 -0600 From: "g01495@gmail.com" To: Sergey Reva , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Evolving rio / GUI development In-Reply-To: <524446187.20050217220020@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1073199218.20050217075014@mail.ru> <1618372765.20050217191550@mail.ru> <524446187.20050217220020@mail.ru> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4a7a49b6-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:00:20 +0200, Sergey Reva wrote: > TL> how about no new gui > TL> the old one ain't smellin' yet > What you mean in term 'GUI'? > Yes, with large monitors we can forget about window switching, but now > most of Plan 9 programs have only console version! When you want > create application with buttons, entryes, list boxes you need draw it > by self... > > RM> With multiple desktops, as much as I like rio, I find it easier to use > RM> flwm and swap around with CTRL-F[1234] etc. > See! People need advanced window manager! Maybe the ability to create a container frame. The interface could be similar to ``win'' and Acme, but allowing you to run any type of application within the frame. You could create this frame, associate applications with it, and click within the frame to toggle between the applications it's managing (which could be any type of application, graphical, etc). This could be useful as you could tile your windows initially and assign applications to each container as required, similar to ``tab'' functionality many UNIX WM's have. This would increase manageability on displays with many clients.