Metisse: you though you knew what 3D was...

Posted Feb 6, 2007 5:22 UTC (Tue) by TRauMa (guest, #16483)
In reply to: Metisse: you though you knew what 3D was... by NAR
Parent article: Metisse: you thought you knew what 3D was...

Nearly everyone I see using virtual desktops creates a system: the mailer is on desktop 1, the browser is on desktop 2, the editor is on desktop 3, etc. Most of my collagues use CDE on Solaris, they even name their desktops about these tasks so even if they'd forget, they just look at the panel and know which window is where.

Been there, done that (icewm). And then you open xmms, quick, where do you put it? Eclipse? Any app that doesnt fit your scheme? Apps with more than one window? (Rumors have it they exist).

I strongly disagree with you. A window manager is a tool like any other - if someone wants to use it, she has to learn how to use it.

Like an elevator. I see. Well, I never read about the futurama suicide cabine before I saw it on TV, but I instantly knew how to use it.

people who haven't seen a window manager yet?

Uhm, honestly having trouble envisioning that.

But the same newbie will be really bothered with the eye candy after 20 minutes, because it's just slow.

Presumption. That was my concern, too, but I tried it and some things even run faster (everythings double buffered).

Why the heck would I want my window manager to do such things? It's the job of the scanner software or the image displayer, it has nothing to do with the window manager.

Yes. Duplicate functionality everywhere. OpenOffice, Mozilla, heck, everything that displays something, they all need their own smooth zoom.

Well, actually, what's the fuss about it. At my office desktop I have about 15 xterms on my desktop, 4 browser windows, an acroread, an openoffice and a couple of gvim windows. If I got the documentation in plain text instead of .doc or .pdf, and the web tools didn't need JavaScript, I wouldn't really need X.

Bah, you're just making excuses, a real power user would hex edit a live assembly kernel to display this page. :-) Documentation, you say? Of simple things, that never can use an image or two, for explanation? ;-)