On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 03:29:59PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:02:57 -0500 > "Jeremy O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, a potential problem I see already is the desktop being covered by all > > the tiled windows that they'd want to open. One window open, desktop is > > gone. I suppose you could do floating mode by default, but that would > > somewhat defeat the purpose of using dwm... If you're really dead-set on > > doing it though, idesk would more than likely work. I hope your parents are > > good with computers though! :-D > > > > Yes you are right. As soon as I posted the email I remembered that the whole > desktop will be covered! > > But I guess there is a way around this. There could be a tag 'apps' and this > tag will not have any applications open in it. So let's say they click on > firefox. It launches it on a tag called 'web'. Then they launch pidgin or > amarok, which would then open up on tags 'chat' and 'music' respectively. In > the meanwhile, they can easily go back to the 'apps' tag if they want to > launch other apps or log out. > > It might work ;) > > And no my parents are not good with computers at all ;) should be > interesting.. > >
Haha, yeah. Interesting indeed. :) Sorry for the mix of top-posting and bottom-posting. I forgot to use mutt for mailing-list replies :-/ -- Jeremy O'Brien aka neutral_insomniac GPG key: 0xB1140FDB http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~jeremy/jeremy.asc Linux lucifer 2.6.22.9 #1 Zilog(R) Z80 processor 4MHz GNU/Linux
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