Dont knock the paper clip - excellent way to get stuck media
out of a Mac.

If you want gcc then port it ... it won't change my world.  Run
whatever you like.  Have fun, dhog didn't.

brucee

On 6/8/06, Simon Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dont knock the paper clip - just the implementation
The people who designed it ( at Microsoft Research ) are seriously excellent
Bayesan statisticians who names i have forgotten ( apologies ). The problem
for the marketroids was that it didnt appear often enough for them to sell
it as a feature so they took all the careful tuned parameters and wound them
up to 11 creating the monster we have today.
Simon


On 6/8/06, ems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 21:51 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> > What if you had a window manager that could be recursive? that would set
> > it up so you can name windows by a path name? that would let you treat
> > the recursive desktops -- to any level -- as just another window? that
> > would trivially allow you to connect mouse clicks in a window to control
> > actions for one or more other windows (i.e. you could logically group
> > windows and then control all of them via mouse clicks)? That would maybe
> > let you easily connect output from a process in one window to another?
> > that would let you build little widgets that  could easily control other
> > windows? That would let you display all window state in another window?
> > That would let you set, say, all windows with a browser with the label
> > abaco-### (### a number), with a simple text command; and let you find
> > all windows with the label abaco.* with, in the limit, a grep? That
> > would make it easy to group all windows with the label 'abaco.*' so that
> > you could say 'hide all abaco' with a simple script?
>
> ________________________
> | It looks like you're |
> | playing with rio.    |
> |                      |
> | Would you like help? |
> |                      |
> | * Get help with      |
> |   hiding windows     |
> |                      |
> | * Just hide the      |
> |   windows without    |
> |   help               |
> | _                    |
> ||_| Don't show me     |
> |    this tip again    |
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>        \ |
>         \|
>       Glenda
>
> Sorry, I couldn't help myself. (BTW, is there ACSII Glenda anywhere?)
>


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