[openbox] Re: Slow menu drawing

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Fri Oct 31 19:52:39 EST 2003


On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Marius Nita wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:34:15PM +0000, David Philip Barr wrote:
> > i think this is a silly idea, with limited use for maybe just one person - 
> > e16 used have something like this and it didn't catch on, for reasons i 
> > just previoulsy highlighted. 
> 
> Top posting sucks.
> 

Is middle posting better?

> > 
> > Andy Holmes writes: 
> > 
> > >Adam Gent wrote:
> > >>Window Grouping/Glueing/Globbing. 
> > >>
> > >>The idea is as follows:  
> > >>
> > >>Windows can be grouped by being snapped together (so that they touch, no
> > >>space in between). So once all the windows you want are snapped/glued
> > >>together you can move them as one. Or you could even move the whole group
> > >>to another workspace, or close the whole group. This is like tabs in some
> > >>regards except you can always see the contents of both windows. As 
> > >>desktop space is increased because of larger screens, I think it would be 
> > >>very benificial to the user to be able to group windows together other 
> > >>than just by workspaces.
> > >
> > >Interesting idea...but how do you propose to "unglue" a window once it has 
> > >been glued if dragging moves all attatched windows? I expect you've come 
> > >up with this idea with some inspiration from XMMS/Winamp but the differnce 
> > >there is that there is a 'Main' window. 
> > >
> > >-Andy 
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > 
> 

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Mikael Magnusson



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