Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements.

[Mart Zirnask <martzirnask@gmail.com>]

On 15/04/2019, Marshall Conover <marzhall.o@gmail.com> wrote:
> For example, I feel super squished on a single screen, but I've come to
> dislike the awkwardness of switching between multiple 'workspaces' or
> working with tiling wms. So I'm playing around with rio at the moment to
> see if adding a 'panning' effect, where you treat the desktop as an
> infinitely-scrollable table and allow the user to 'pan' around the table,
> could be a natural approach to feeling less squished. It may end up being
> even more awkward and painful, but it may also end up being something I'm
> left wanting for in modern DEs - that could be an attraction to 9.

Semi-related, but this reminds me of a Vim plugin, Microviche,
that allows one to "pan and zoom through text":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YNiPUTGO28
https://github.com/q335r49/microviche

I'd say Microviche rpresents a text editing paradigm entirely of its
own just like Acme.
I remember having wanted to emulate something similar within Acme
(the feeling of scrolling text panes/columns horizontally), but I
didn't really try.

Mart