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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design

Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design

Posted Feb 13, 2012 0:21 UTC (Mon) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design by bojan
Parent article: Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design

Copy&Paste does work (between text-mode virtual consoles) assuming you use gpm. Never tried cut&paste, though.


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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design

Posted Feb 13, 2012 2:19 UTC (Mon) by jmalcolm (guest, #8876) [Link]

He means that it is much less convenient to work with multiple windows at once if the metaphor is assumed to be "full screen all the time". Many people find it quite functional to have multiple windows open and visible at once both for moving information via mechanisms like cut-and-paste and for moving information through the eyes of the user and out to another window via the keyboard and mouse.

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