Re: [9fans] Small program "PlanKey" (paraphrase of DOSKey)

[jimmy brisson <theotherjimmy@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:53 AM,  <cej@gli.cas.cz> wrote:
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>>> How about turning acme to universal UI, in the style of old Oberon?
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> >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.

acctualy they normaly provide multiple "workspaces" (screen clones)
and provide a chord to turn a window into one (fullscreen).

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> What about adding a hide/unhide column functionality? And, perhaps, HideAll (tiles except the current one)?
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they also tend to have a recursive structure that is different that acmes:
they treat each frame (containing multiple windows with tabs) as an
individual screen, which can have multiple children frames; therefore,
there is not rely an acme column analog, just more tiled windows.

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

Would it be reasonable to apply a "command" chord that would take full
commands and run them in rc within the current namespace(simmilar to
the scrach area in acme)? someting like a simgle line command line for
many commands like snarf, paste, look, et cetera and assuming that the
selected text is the first argument (in quotes). this would "fix" the
problem with long menus, but replace it with more reliance on the
keyboard.

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most info on the tiling wms is take from my experince with Ion
(http://iki.fi/tuomov/ion/).

at any rate, I would like to help if a large overhaul is in the works.

-Jimmy




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