On 2009-06-05, Timandahaf <timandahaf+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone seen/heard of this? > > http://winsplit-revolution.com/
I find that tiling w/o tabbing is rather useless. And it's the tabbing part that takes extra effort to implement under Windows. Under X, the WM can -- still as of June 2009 -- reparent application windows within its own windows, and draw the decorations in its frame windows. Under Windows, applications always create top-level windows, which are divided into "client area" and the remaining boundary, that is drawn by the "system" -- whatever part that is. You'd somehow have to replace that "system" to draw different kind of decorations and add different kind of controls, which are duplicated between all the windows associated to a pseudo-frame/ tabbed set. Of course, further problems arise because many applications seem to override the "system", and draw their own decorations... and then there's the issue of the apparent lack of the equivalent of the ICCCM, so you can't enforce tiling... as far as I know, but I'm no WinAPI expert. -- "[Fashion] is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." -- Oscar Wilde "The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion." -- RMS
