Re: Desktop-style window management

The selection of what app manager to use is available as a compile time
option and a runtime option already, and it will stay that way.


On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:40:48AM -0700, Gray, Tim wrote:
> I also hope that there is a compile time option to turn off overlapping
> windows.
> 
> in my applications it is not desireable to have overlapping at all except
> for a single "something bad happened" dialog box.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lalo Martins [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:06 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Pgui-devel] Desktop-style window management
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:32:43PM +0100, Peter Graf wrote:
> > Framebuffer implementation seems feasible, but the PDA-style 
> > windowmanagement of picoGUI is not suitable. Apart from windowmanagement, 
> > the picoGUI architecture seems to fit quite good.
> > 
> > Is there work in progress for PicoGUI desktop-style windowmanagement, esp.
> 
> > overlapping windows for multitasking applications?
> 
> For the technical answers, please refer to Micah's reply.  I, however, want
> to make some usability/HCI comments on this.
> 
> It is *not* correct to refer to overlapping windows as "desktop-style" and
> PicoGUI's as "PDA-style".  The non-overlapping mode of PicoGUI is perfectly
> fit for desktops, and in fact it is *better* than overlapping.  Heck, I'm
> looking forward to (and working on) using PicoGUI as my desktop, and I will
> as soon as it has enough tools for me to do my work.
> 
> In real-life practice, I *never* have seen anyone using overlapping windows
> for real work.  Most people use one single "maximized" window at a time,
> others (when there is legitimate need to have more than one app or set of
> data readily available) use "tiling" (spreading the windows so that they
> don't overlap).  Except for dialog boxes, overlapping windows are extremely
> confusing and unintuitive.
> 
> Micah: I register my plead that even if you waste your time rewriting the
> engine to support overlapping, the fabulous, innovative, non-overlapping app
> manager remains the default.
> 
> []s,
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