Re: [e-users] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Expos=E9?= for E17

[Luke A. <gt...@ma...>]

Yeah it would be cool.  I can't get skippy or kompose to work at all but
I have seen them and they are pieces of crap compared to kompose.


On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 01:00 +0200, Thomas Kleinbauer wrote:
> These days, what makes everybody who sees Mac OSX for the first time dr=
op
> his jaw is a tool called "Expos=E9". With the stroke of a key, all curr=
ently
> open windows are scaled down and arranged in a non-overlapping way. Thi=
s
> way, the user gets a perfect overview over all running application and =
by
> clicking on one of these "thumbnails" all windows are restored as befor=
e,
> just with clicked-on window on top. This is a pretty eye-candy alternat=
ive
> to task bars and similar stuff... but wait a minute!=20
> Did I just say "eye-candy"? Isn't that the magic word that makes everyo=
ne
> immediately think of our beloved window manager - The Enlightenment?! Y=
es it
> is...
> So here comes my question: although Max OSX' Expos=E9 also has some oth=
er
> features - should it not be possible and straight-forward to build a si=
milar
> functionality like the one described above into E17 with the many cool,
> superfast, highly optimized libraries at hand?
> And if so, would such a tool be a welcome feature for E17? (I mean, com=
e on,
> Expose even starts with an E already... :-))
>=20
> Opinions?
>=20
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Luke Albers
Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
gt...@ma...