Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread ,,,
Hi all! Some week ago i read about ION window-manager at the Hungarian Unix Portal. Due, I'm an engineering monkey, and i really hates wasting my time playing with the windows locations, i thought the tiling wm would be a good thing for me. So, i pulled down the ION2 from the Debian

Re: Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-10-09, ,,, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also i have some ideas and thoughts, which i compiled to kind of whistlist. Most is not a basic wm feature, but it would be nice in a tabbed, tiling wm. Maybe some of these already developed, but spending 13 hours with the soldering iron, and 3 hours

Re: Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-10-09, Sylvain Abélard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if my advice seems outdated, I've been Windows-imprisoned for a long time. At least there's _still_ that choice to the OSDL-sponsored hegemony. (I'm beginning to think OSDL and its member companies are more harmful to software

Re: Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-10-09, Sylvain Abélard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Provided you bear with monoculture and software locks, why not. Sounds like where FOSS is heading. DotNet begins to show many cool stuff for developers, but still the intended user is expected to be another brainless WIMP-tard. DotNet

Re: Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread Sylvain Abélard
On 10/9/07, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-09, Sylvain Abélard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Provided you bear with monoculture and software locks, why not. Sounds like where FOSS is heading. You don't find heroic Tuomo Valkonen's making your Windows usable. Yet. DotNet is

Re: Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-10-09, Sylvain Abélard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But F# and the recent DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) looks really sexy ! Many languages themselves aren't that bad (Nemerle is another interesting DotNet language), but the libraries and library frameworks around them, designed by

Re: Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-10-09 14:47 +0100, Sam Mason wrote: I hope the inferior minds comment below was intended as a joke -- Not really. Not everyone is up to the task of designing a programming language, and certainly not a beautiful and useful one (certainly not the C++ designers!), whereas it is

Re: Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-10-09, Roy Lanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it a sardonic, or a WC graffiti-style (to borrow from your post) :) like answer? If yes, then you can stop reading, false alarm. No, it's semi-serious. But I guess this kind of stuff doesn't really belong in the WM itself. And, indeed, now

Re: Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-10-09 18:54 +0200, csant wrote: Twindy? Yep. http://www.niallmoody.com/twindy/. -- Tuomo

Re: Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:07 +0200, ,,, wrote: Hi all! Some week ago i read about ION window-manager at the Hungarian Unix Portal. Due, I'm an engineering monkey, and i really hates wasting my time playing with the windows locations, i thought the tiling wm would be a good thing for me.

Re: Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-10-09, Roy Lanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incidentally, and to get an idea of the *gravity* the situation: compare with ... Egypt and Greece, say, of the past. Were they not--ironically--more *artistically advanced* [read: provided with a more vivid imagination] still than ... hem,

Re: Life, universe, and ION3

2007-10-09 Thread Etan Reisner
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 03:07:26PM +0200, ,,, wrote: snip Icon based, floating style application launcher. What do you mean here exactly? Just a launcher that uses icons? There are any number of applications that give you a bar of icons that can be customized to launch applications of your