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Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy (ars technica)Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy (ars technica)Posted Feb 8, 2010 18:02 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy (ars technica) by Zack Parent article: Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy (ars technica)
It's the one true window managerIf there was such a thing, we wouldn't have fifty million window managers at this point. Hell, we even have fifty million minimalist tabbing window managers.
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Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy (ars technica) Posted Feb 9, 2010 15:01 UTC (Tue) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
It might be mergeable with future technology.
Take the focus wars. I currently use sloppy focus after spending a while as a strict focus-follows-mouse user, I know people who stand by click-to-focus, but I'm pretty sure we could all get along with the ideal focus mechanism focus-follows-brain. If the key strokes always landed in the window I'm expecting them to, then I won't be surprised and I will be happy with the focus policy - obviously.
Now, we just need to make the machine smart enough to implement this "obvious" policy. Similarly, I'm sure there is an obviously right but as yet unimplementable policy for window management.
Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy (ars technica) Posted Feb 10, 2010 11:01 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
Ooh, interesting. I've never understood why anyone would want strict focus-follows-mouse rather than sloppy focus - what are the advantages? Am I correct in thinking that the only real difference is when the cursor is over the root window, or have I missed something?
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