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Post #90,428
by altmann
3/22/03 5:35:37 PM
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New Re: Mechanism vs. Policy

If GNOME is overkill for a 260x140mm display, rather than rewriting all your apps, you just slap a different WM on top of it.


I've never bought that argument. It takes more than squeezing a non-trivial desktop app into a small rectangle and slapping a barebones WM on it to make a usable Handheld UI. Hell, a number of GNOME apps I've seen have problems on an 800x600 screen at any size.
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Chris Altmann
Post #90,447
by kmself
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3/22/03 6:29:10 PM
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New Handheld WMs

I don't recall the name of the WM, but it's aimed at handhelds.\r\nDon't recall which...

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Basically: you don't have windows. You have full-screen apps. You\r\ncan kill or cycle windows. That's pretty much it.

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No window decorations (except IIRC a status bar/kill button at the\r\ntop, narrow -- 4-6 pixels?).

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Cool stuff? You can run it in XNest on your desktop/laptop (or\r\nserver) system, to get an idea of what it's like. Featured on Slashdot\r\nsome time back.

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Yes, the app still needs to be designed with the thought in mind that\r\nit might only have a minimal display area. But given that, taking way\r\nWM complexity is a huge win for real estate and usability.

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     OK, you guys said I was nuts . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (23) - March 21, 2003, 09:56:54 PM EST
         Gotta Link? - (Steve Lowe) - (2) - March 21, 2003, 11:22:57 PM EST
             Oooops! forgot! - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - March 21, 2003, 11:34:50 PM EST
                 Danke! - (Steve Lowe) - March 21, 2003, 11:50:41 PM EST
         Huge poltical battle going on - (JayMehaffey) - March 21, 2003, 11:54:12 PM EST
         More power to them - (orion) - March 22, 2003, 12:10:55 AM EST
         By all means replace X - (pwhysall) - (5) - March 22, 2003, 12:31:50 AM EST
             With what? - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - March 22, 2003, 02:37:22 AM EST
                 There might be others. - (static) - (1) - March 22, 2003, 07:28:31 AM EST
                     Fresco uses GGI . . - (Andrew Grygus) - March 22, 2003, 10:13:33 AM EST
             Aqua is pretty nice, no X allowed here -NT - (boxley) - March 22, 2003, 08:40:34 AM EST
             Re: By all means replace X - (orion) - March 22, 2003, 05:21:25 PM EST
         What is really wrong with *X*... - (folkert) - (1) - March 22, 2003, 10:57:40 AM EST
             What platforms other than . . - (Andrew Grygus) - March 22, 2003, 02:19:42 PM EST
         You're still nuts... - (kmself) - (9) - March 22, 2003, 01:46:31 PM EST
             Well, it looks like . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - March 22, 2003, 02:14:57 PM EST
                 On choice - (kmself) - March 22, 2003, 04:23:32 PM EST
             Re: Mechanism vs. Policy - (altmann) - (1) - March 22, 2003, 05:35:37 PM EST
                 Handheld WMs - (kmself) - March 22, 2003, 06:29:10 PM EST
             Funnily enough - (pwhysall) - March 23, 2003, 08:01:09 AM EST
             That must be XXXFree86 then... - (scoenye) - (2) - March 23, 2003, 01:58:50 PM EST
                 Re: That must be XXXFree86 then... - (kmself) - (1) - March 23, 2003, 02:13:05 PM EST
                     Learn a new one every day... Will give the other bit a try - (scoenye) - March 23, 2003, 02:38:19 PM EST
             Nit - (pwhysall) - March 23, 2003, 03:40:15 PM EST

Ooops, I'm ranting again... time to get more coffee.
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