From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:56:16 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: "g01495@gmail.com" , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Evolving rio / GUI development In-Reply-To: <8c029c990502160945781f293d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8c029c990502160945781f293d@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0a58059c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I find rio very usable, but I also find I spend alot of my time "using > rio". When I say this I mean moving windows, organizing the screen, > hiding windows, resizing things. This is interesting. Why don't you find yourself spending a lot of time using the other window managers? I wonder if it is similar to the reason people find themselves spending a lot of time using the mouse but not the keyboard: the mouse is easier to use so your brain is free to do other things like wonder when you'll be done. (Argument about mice vs. keyboards can go to /dev/null. We've already been through that multiple times. Here's one: http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/2002-April/016946.html) Russ