On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Zlatanov wrote: >>It's not completely like Windows, but hey... > > I'm not sure if other people feel the same way; but for me, once I'd > "deprogrammed" myself from the Windows way, I found myself much more > productive. Now, I always know that I've got an editor in the largest > frame of the first workspace, web stuff goes into the second. I can > immediately flick to the correct place without having to search around for > where I last happened to leave it. Whenever I use the more traditional > window managers now, I find myself getting exasperated incredibly quickly > about how everything gets into a mess.
I think two things are worth noting: 1) What you describe is positional navigation. I already mentioned that I like it, but it's the only way (other than Mod1+G as Adam pointed out) to navigate in Ion right now. Why not visual (NxN grid of windows) or textual (usable list of windows, not just a Tab-activated CLI) navigation? I'm sure the textual navigation is already possible, although I don't know the exact mechanism - maybe a menu can be posted with the list of windows... The visual navigation is IMO very interesting, and Ion as a cutting-edge WM could offer it. 2) It's possible to "lose" (in human terms) a window in Ion, hidden in a tab somewhere. Instead of looking for it, the navigation in (1) is useful. Ted
