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From: <cej@gli.cas.cz>
To: <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Small program "PlanKey" (paraphrase of DOSKey)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:53:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ACCF003CBA3D09458207DB0CB86AD17DD660E8@XMAIL.asuch.cas.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509071940901290350w103904c6rea469880f7dac12e@mail.gmail.com>

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>> How about turning acme to universal UI, in the style of old Oberon?


>>From a UI design perspective, it's not clear what it ought to look
>like. More strongly, I'm not really convinced there *is* a good way
>for a UI like that to work. You'd have all the problems the X11 tiled
>window managers have, and if you don't separately provide for either
>"floating" windows (as some of them do) or horribly throw tiles
>around, things like viewing large postscript documents is going to be
>hella disruptive.

What about adding a hide/unhide column functionality? And, perhaps, HideAll (tiles except the current one)?

>I love acme, but I think rio's the right starting place for GUI
>things. Maybe just move the menu into a pre-populated tag, similar to
>Acme's.

I agree. Maybe I am to much Acme-biased. 


++pac




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-29 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-23 10:03 pavel.klinkovsky
2009-01-23 10:50 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-01-23 11:27   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-01-23 11:35 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-01-23 12:56 ` roger peppe
2009-01-23 14:14   ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-26 12:41     ` cej
2009-01-26 10:31   ` pavel.klinkovsky
2009-01-27  3:29   ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-01-27  3:42     ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27  4:43       ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-01-27  6:35         ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-27  6:44           ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-27 20:01           ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 20:10             ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27 22:01               ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 22:26                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27 22:58                   ` sqweek
2009-01-27 23:42                     ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-28  0:35                 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-01-28  5:59                   ` lucio
2009-01-28 19:00                     ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-28 22:19                     ` Joel C. Salomon
2009-01-28 22:51                       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-01-29  0:26                         ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-29  2:09                           ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29  8:49                             ` cej
2009-01-29 11:50                               ` Anthony Sorace
2009-01-29 13:04                                 ` roger peppe
2009-01-29 13:53                                 ` cej [this message]
2009-01-29 16:14                                   ` jimmy brisson
2009-01-29 13:53                                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 15:20                                   ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-29 16:40                                   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 16:52                                     ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 17:03                                       ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-29 17:09                                         ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-01-27  7:09     ` Russ Cox
2009-01-27 22:12       ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 22:25         ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-27 22:31           ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 22:43             ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-27 22:50               ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 23:11                 ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-27 23:40                   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-28  3:15                     ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-28  7:22                     ` Eris Discordia
2009-01-27 23:01         ` sqweek
2009-01-26 10:31 ` pavel.klinkovsky
2009-01-27  3:21 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-01-27  9:37 ` Pavel Klinkovsky

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