On 3/22/06, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:49:25AM +0100, Steffen Liebergeld wrote: > > while thinking about how to explain the tagging mechanism, I had the > > idea to better use the term "view" instead of "workspace". > > > > In my opinion it is easy to imagine a view as being a pure virtual and > > dynamic thing. I think the term "workspace" is strongly connected to > > the static workspace of old-style window managers. > > > > What do native english speakers think about that? Should we better use > > "view" or "workspace"? > > I'm no native speaker, which is obvious. > But I think 'workspace' is a well-known term, which don't > implies the existence of other static workspaces in general. It > only reflects the viewable windows at this time. > 'view' sounds rather abstract to me.
A clarification: i've corrected the workspace definition at http://wmii.de/index.php/WMII/Tagging what do think of this (for me it's clear): ws a shorthand for workspace, understood as the screen space presented by the wm. -- gualteri (at) rootshell.be/~gualteri _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
