[openbox] Re: Slow menu drawing

Derek Foreman manmower at signalmarketing.com
Fri Oct 31 20:18:51 EST 2003


On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> 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



no.



> > > >>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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>



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