On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 02:53:21 +0100 Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> wrote:
> On 3 June 2012 02:40, Stephen Wiley <swwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One thing that I can see is that the 40 billion windows you open are all > > grouped together and don't get in your way when using other apps. (One of > > the things I like about osx is that it does that with all the apps) > > > > Though I guess you could script rio to group things with similar labels > > together... > > I remember reading this being cited as one of the reasons why sam's > "windows within a window" flayer approach is preferred amongst long > time users. In my opinion, if the window manager is having difficulty > managing windows, it isn't doing a very good job. Instead of resorting > to handling windowing within each and every application, we ought to > treat the source of the problem. That may be by making rio group > similar labels, but I'm inclined to think that a "canal" -- a tiling > window manager, effectively -- would be a better approach in the long > run. And I'm thinking of nested window managers of differing types according to the user's choice. I guess I didn't make that clear, judging by this and all the following posts in this subthread. ;) -- This is obviously some strange usage of the word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.
