I'll stick with dwm too, but the crippled tiling window manager would be a vast improvement for most users, who don't want to spend the time to learn dwm / xmonad etc, but are spending vast amounts of time managing their windows by hand. I think it's a worthwhile project.
The touchpad, however, looks like a real stinker. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 07:52:41PM -0400, Bobby wrote: > It doesn't seem very hard to implement in a keyboard only environment, > but I'm not sure that the finished product would be very interesting, > either. It seems like a crippled tiling window manager. The only > points that made it interesting (not usable, just interesting) are > lost when the touchpad is removed. I would rather stick to dwm. > > On 10/21/09, Charlie Kester <corky1...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Thu 15 Oct 2009 at 13:03:15 PDT Bobby wrote: > >>I misread your email as meaning he never used more than two fingers. > >>You are correct, and I agree with your comments. In addition, I think > >>that the main hurdle in all of this is that my hands are moved away > >>from the keyboard yet again to a different device that has no tactile > >>feedback, added costs, another new paradigm to learn, and no added > >>benefits over existing tiling window managers. Cool idea, but lacks any > >>serious application in my opinion. > > > > Aside from the problems others have mentioned, I can't imagine how > > having to reach over that overblown touchpad in order to use the > > keyboard would be anything except uncomfortably awkward. > > > > Either the touchpad would put my arms in a carpal tunnel aggravating > > position, or the keyboard would. > > > > The "continuum" layout is interesting, but doesn't seem to require their > > ten-finger touchpad. It doesn't seem that it would be very hard to > > implement the same ideas in a keyboard-only windowmanager. > > > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device >
