* Sven Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-15 15:25]: > >I remember now the name. It was "dashboard". It has a very nice virtual > >desktop manager (exactly like the one Kde uses today) and made windows > >3.1 better than windows 95 that lacks this very usefull thing... as do > >XP today > > Well the Windows-NVIDIA driver provides virtual desktops. It's still > missing a nice desktop switcher applet though and sometimes doesn't work > quite right. You notice that it's a feature which has been built on top > of Windows whereas the virtual desktops of Linux/UNIX are a core part of > the X Window System.
The problem is: If an application is hanging, you can't switch the desktop. And the desktop switching time depends on the response time of the application. This is the drawback that Windows has no real window manager but it's the task of the application to manage their Windows (of course, the Windows API does this automagically ...). Regards, Bernhard
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