rethinking the window manager

rethinking the window manager

Posted Dec 19, 2006 12:26 UTC (Tue) by t_norup (subscriber, #14071)
In reply to: rethinking the window manager by wookey
Parent article: KDE 4: the ultimate business desktop? (Computerworld)

<they are just not terifically popular>

Well, no, but sometimes they are a requirement, e.g. for safety reasons. For instance, control and surveillance systems and radar systems must often have predictable window manangement. In other words, specific windows must be guaranteed to be placed at predetermined screen coordinates; the z-axis placement must be defined once and for all, etc.

To my knowledge, many such systems use ad-hoc solutions to this requirement; the availability of window managers with tighter controls - configurable in a well-structured manner - are likely to be a significant improvement of the starting point in such projects.

Unix and Linux are both very common in the radar world. I'd look thereabout for further requirements and ideas.

/t

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