On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:15:46PM +0100, John Latham wrote: > > From: John Latham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:54:17 +0100 (BST) > > > * Pages are used as more desk space within each `task', e.g. I might > > have a web browser open on the Java API in the page next to the one I > > am writing code in: I can just slide between the two with either the > > mouse or shortcuts. > > Having thought about it more than ever before, I suppose what I'm saying here > is that desktops are associated with tasks, and pages with sub-tasks! > > E.g. on one desktop I may be writing a Java text book with an editor and dvi > viewer on page 0,0 but in page 0,1 I have xfig open to edit diagrams for the > book. Meanwhile on a different desktop I have my main email client windows on > page 0,0 with maybe some particular emails in process of being written -- but > stalled while I think about them, each on another page of that desktop. > That makes it more of an organisational convenience than anything else though doesn't it. If you named your Pages (or Desktops) to reflect that organisation would it actually make any difference how they were implemented?
-- Chris Green
