From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Mart Zirnask Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 01:17:54 -0700 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements. Topicbox-Message-UUID: fa797930-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 15/04/2019, Marshall Conover 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