On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:35:52 +0100
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 Sep 2005 07:22, Len Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > Maybe straying off topic a bit; how is it that Windows users don't
> > complain about the lack of multiple workspaces? That is the one
> > feature of UNIX/Linux that I could not live without? Been using this
> > feature of X right back 14 years.
>
> My son-in-law has 12 desktops on his W2K installation (not windows-native,
> of course, but an add-on). Just why anyone would need so many I'll never
> know ;-) OTOH, he seems to manage with IE, which I certainly couldn't.
> Apart from the holes, when you're used to tabbed browsing you can't do
> without it. And the number of times I automatically do the linux select
> and paste when I'm helping out in windows, then curse because it doesn't
> work :-) Ah, well, we're completely OT now.
Yes, 12 does seem excessive. I do remember back in the Windows 3.11 days a
colleague noting that there was a multiple workspace feature available for
Windows. Most Windows users seem to be unaware of the possibility.
Yes, OT. Let's close it.
--
Len Lawrence
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