[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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