On Saturday 29 June 2002 02:14 pm, Zoki wrote: > *** Which you can not either because the taskbar tends to shorten the > open progs indication as far as cutting the names and making them > unreadable. And after working with several open windows you can not know > which xterm you started when and which one is showing the info you want.
Yes, but even with KDE's crowded screen you have to get up to about dozen before this happens and even then you can see what the app is from the icon. And it's still faster than the right click, move and then click again (Llama's method). > What everybody seems to forget, probably too much used to KDE (and > Windows maybe) is that Linux (and XFCE) let you configure several tty's > which you can acces through the XFCE bar. You can have almost as many as > you want and organize your desktop to the way you work. > > Example: Main, Mail, Internet, Admin, Logs, System... > > That are the tty's I have set up and thusly the taskbar is not of life > importance. Further more Llama's right-click menu trick works very well > with such a setup. I didn't understand any of this. I think of ttys = serial ports. Or clunky automatic typewriters that put out weather reports on yellow paper. Are you talking about the little menu's that pop up from the icons on the xfce panel? They're start menus, not task selectors. > Let us drain and adjust the features available before spending time and > energy inventing something which is of a questionable use. Invention = new idea or new creation. Hardly. The taskbar is a proven and established part of the gui toolkit. Gnome, KDE, windows, and probably half of the me-too WMs have it. The use isn't even slightly questionable. It's a productivity enhancer. Arguing for the elimination of vi would have more logical substance to it. Michael _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
