Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]



On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 23:40, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> writes: 
> > [1] I am avoiding the use of the terms "viewport" or "workspace" because
> > I think that by this point we have agreed that they are crackrock
> > concepts and using either of them would confuse the discussion.  So I am
> > using "virtual desktop" instead.
> You are fucking things up here dude ;-)
> The two crackrock concepts are "desktop" and "viewport" (so named by
> the WM spec) and the single concept is "workspace" (so named because
> it's what appears in the UI).

However, the desktop (I assume you swapped by mistake the terms) is not
a single dimension area... it may be a 2 dimension layer (vertical or
horizontal) or even a 3 dimension layer, depending on user
experience/preference.

Hugs, rms

-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
+ So let's do it...?

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