Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="iain">
> 
> > We removed workspaces? I thought we'd removed viewports...
> > 
> > Shows that some of us really have no clue what they are. Which is the one
> > you can't drag windows between?
> 
> Heh. This really is silly, innit?
> 
>   We now call a subset of the features of the old Sawfish viewports and
>   workspaces, 'workspaces'.
> 
>   The main missing feature of the two previous systems is the grid
>   representation of desktop areas, navigable in those terms (ie. North,
>   South, East, West, rather than just Next and Previous).

That is not really due to the fact that we use workspaces. It is just a 
feature we lack. It is fully implementable using workspaces only.

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