Tuomo Valkonen
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:44:34 -0700
On 2007-10-09, Roy Lanek <[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! -- Tuomo