Re: Life, universe, and ION3

On 2007-10-09, Roy Lanek <lanek-tnsfOxNVUhtWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it a sardonic, or a "WC graffiti"-style (to borrow from your
> post) :) like answer? If yes, then you can stop reading, false
> alarm.

No, it's semi-serious. But I guess this kind of stuff doesn't
really belong in the WM itself. And, indeed, now with the some
improvements I made to the status display stuff, you could run
some panel application to do. But you'd probably want some WM
interaction protocols to actually switch to a running program
and so on.

There actually was some interesting attempt to create a very
kiosky WM, but it's been abandoned, and I can't remember its
name.

> Icons, a dozen or two ones [airports, restaurants, etc.]
> excepted, truly belong to the *creme* of the crap--sugar
> candies--that has delayed developing in depth and re-discovering
> a much more intelligent way to interact with programs in general
> by keeping people attracted to it. No icons please.

Icons aren't that bad for some applications and touch screens.
Just like the acme/p9 mouse-heavy interface is just utter and 
total crap on vertical-screen-and-horizontal-controls tabletop
computers, it might actually work quite nicely on touch screen
tablets. The mouse is to a touch screen what a pantograph is
to a pencil!

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