>> 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