I actually envision a LISP module that integrates nicely with emacs, that can keep track of everything and alert me whenever anything interesting happens.
- Dave Michael Bauer wrote: > > > So, here's a left-field question (with apolgies to our non-US friends that > don't get the baseball analogy): > > How do you manage your desktop with a Jabber client? I mean you're > cruising along, editing files, checking email, surfing sites - and then > you start to engage in a half-dozen Jabber conversations. The problem is > you've got two classes of activities going on at the same time. The > first class is primarily pro-active. You make the decision what to edit, > what to read, what to surf when. The whole tiled windows desktop > environment works pretty well here. I now have my editor on top. Soon, > I'll put my email on top to send this. Everything is well and good. I am > at peace. > > The second class of activities is re-active. I am in the middle of > editing something hoping that Diz will get back to me soon so i can finish > my conversation with him. In this context, I can't be pro-active with > this activity. I'm waiting on an event - an IM from diz. I could set the > Jabber client to come to the top when message received - but that pretty > rapidly drives me insane. I don't want this to happen when I get a > message from just any old person, like Jer. :) And there's no way I'm > going to dynamically specify when I want to be so interrupted from a > particular person (I may not want to talk to diz immediately all the > time). So, I've taken to just carving out a few lines on the top quarter > of my screen with my Jabber client (Jarl on Linux). This way I can glance > up expectantly waiting for a conversation to go "red" indicating that I > have a message from anyone). I lose some of real estate this way but it's > mostly OK - except I have to resize the window to chat and size it back. > > I'm interested in how others do this. Of course, it's going to be client > dependent. I'd love to know how others have envisioned solutions to this > problem too. Transparent pop-up windows would be pretty sweet. Iconified > individual conversations maybe too. Just curious. > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelbauer.com > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
