On 2005-06-24, Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:28:37 -0500 Sasha Vasko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: >> Real world example of this >> would be a car having a joystick instead of a steering weel, and a wierd >> knob on a dashboard instead of a gas pedal. Let gas pedals be gas pedals >> and window managers manage windows, and we all will end up in a better >> world. > > in fact there are cars that do NOT have gas pedals. they have them for > reasons. > specialty vehicles mostly - earth moving equipment, tractors etc. sure it's > uncommon but they have their reasons to do so.
Cars having special steering equipment would be more like the user choosing to use a different kind of UI or a window manager. A car having catepillar treads and the manufacturer insisting that it be driven on normal roads would be like apps trying to override the window manager. -- Tuomo _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
