On 9/17/09, Antoni Grzymala <ant...@chopin.edu.pl> wrote: > Anselm R Garbe dixit (2009-09-17, 09:26): > > [...] > >> identified. But first please really think carefully what's causing >> this mis-use of 70 tabs in Opera for you. That's surely related to an >> issue that has nothing to do with the WM or with the web rendering >> engine...
> Since most my webpages are (luckily) more or less static and *not* > interested in taking keyboard focus, I can easily move between them with > single letter keystrokes. This is a crucial comfort item for me. Try > that with a wm... there are web forms and all sort of traps to that, so it's not a robust way to navigate > Hope this explains my POV better. And I wouldn't call it mis-use easily. > i recognised four ideas: * navigation: simple navigation and client management (ordering matters) * overview: list of icons, client names, for quick identification * grouping: manage a set of clients together (automatically) * persistency: get a group of clients back and running with the same state i don't see why this would not make sense outside the browser context, if it works for browsers then it should work for other similar applications so this is a general wm task. of course implementing this in general (outside the application) would be hard: we don't know what information should be stored persistently, which applications should be grouped and how to interact with the wm without interfering with the application (one key shortcuts) i think some of the limitations come from x (persistency and easy rules for grouping) others are gui conventions (shortcuts)
