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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Alternative to traditional (virtual) desktop: The Strip
From:       lordSauron <lordsauronthegreat () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-12-13 0:04:35
Message-ID: e5a3e9ac0512121604x55e86259rf174be22844b8007 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 12/12/05, Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask@web.de> wrote:
> Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 19:46 schrieb Lubos Lunak:
> > On Monday 05 December 2005 11:34, Janne Ojaniemi wrote:
> > > On Monday 05 December 2005 12:23, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > > So this would be like an X setup with a greater virtual than physical
> > > > width but with kicker moving along instead of being expanded?
> > >
> > > Sort of, yes.
> >
> >  Well, for a start you could try to configure your X this way, or use FVWM
> > or other WM that implements this, maybe you'll change your mind after
> > seeing it in practice (I remember that in the old days when my X sometimes
> > ended up configured like this I found this feature completely unusable).
> >
> >  If you get past that stage, this feature is usually called a viewport
> > (http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html). Both KWin and
> > the NET classes in kdecore have relevant support for it. Except for the
> > actual functionality of course, the viewport is now always equal to the
> > full screen size in the code now.
>
> I have to agree to you Lubos and just want contribute a bit later to this
> thread by fully acknowledging the fact, that this so called "feature" was and
> will ever be unuseable,  if not used to impressed friends, that only know
> this feature less OS from Redmond.  If you want to learn to work with
> different virtual desktops, you will be completely happy once you configured
> some keyboard accelerators to your desktops to switch them fast (Use your
> preferred settings or learn the system defaults if you are new to this
> feature.)
>
> I also made the experience that naming the desktops with thematical names will
> help you in using the desktops for special purposes.  Just as an Example I
> have my Desktops named: Contacts, Media, Development, Playground  and I'm
> completely happy with it.  It won't be only me, who gets confused when the
> coffee mug pushed the mouse over the desk and my whole desktop slips away
> from its current view.

Yes, that is a problem.  That's why I like Apple's Expose (and
Kompose) since it lets me keep track of where everything is.

> On the other hand I must admit that a moving desktop really looks cool.

Yeah, eye-candy is one of the key things that decides what a user buys.
 
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