Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 29Apr2002 02:09PM (-0400), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
>  - some people find it annoying if they have little bits of 
>    windows leaking onto adjacent spaces (e.g. you can't push a window 
>    offscreen to get rid of it).

I imagine a single checkbox to control whether windows can be pushed
past the edge of the screen would be a lot simpler UI-wise than having
both workspaces and viewports.

> 
>  - viewports kind of help on 800x600 displays, but I'd argue only
>    because apps are broken and don't handle those displays
>    reasonably. i.e. I don't think the split-between-two-viewports
>    window is really an acceptable way to interact with apps. So this
>    is a band-aid/workaround IMO that discourages fixing apps.

Edge-flipping and being able to drag windows between
workspaces/viewports/whatever (as opposed to spanning more than one)
seems like the most important bit to me, and that is implementable in
terms of workspaces. Maybe adding that would be a good compromise
(easy for me to say, when I'm not going to be the one stuck with the
work).

 - Maciej