Re: Outline of Caliban, a Pane Based Window Manager

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:34:00PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:32:25PM +1000, Karl O'Keeffe wrote:
> 
> > I've updated the wiki with a (very) brief outline of my ideas for a Y 
> > Window Manager.
> > http://y-win-wiki.jciteassist.org/y-win-wiki/PaneBasedWindowManager
> > 
> > The main (and probably most controversial) point is that windows are 
> > all displayed full screen by default, and that there will be no 
> > minimise/maximise/move/resize commands needed.
> 
> Didn't you say it should all work with existing apps?
> Can't work with spatial Nautilus or the GIMP. And even one of the few 
> apps I ever use full screen, OpenOffice, still has palettes (floating 
> windows).

ion has already proven that it basically can't work with anything that
expects to open more than one window. Which turns out to be quite a
lot of applications.

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