Re: [Etoile-dev] Interesting thread..

[David Chisnall]

Very nice idea.  One thing that currently irritates me with XCode is 
that when I have two projects open at once Exposé only allows me to 
view all XCode windows, not all project windows.

One suggestion I would like to add to Jesse's model would be the 
ability to have overlapping projects, where things contained in the 
overlapping sections were shared between the projects (although I'm not 
sure whether the spacial positioning should be per-project or per-item. 
 My instinct is per-project, but I would like to see both before I can 
be sure).  For example:
Imagine I am working on two software projects which use a shared 
library that I wrote.  I would have one project for each group of code 
and documentation, with the code for the shared library shared between 
all three.  This would also allow sub-projects relatively easily (just 
put one project totally inside another).  The problem with this is that 
it does not scale - even with completely flexible project shapes it is 
not possible to have 5 projects with all kinds of mutual overlaps.  
Would this be a problem?