Re: [E-devel] a funny from the Gnome-gui list

[Khon <lor...@ya...>]

--- Lyle Kempler <te...@ke...> wrote:
> * Ben Ford (be...@ka...) wrote:
> > I lurk on the gnome-gui list.  They just came up
> with the idea of a 
> > "window that can hang on the edge of the screen
> with just a tab showing, 
> > and when you click on the tab, it will expand and
> show the whole window!!"
> > 
> > They were tickled pink with themselves and I
> expect them to be rather 
> > disappointed when they see the screenshots I
> posted of apps with a pager 
> > style border and explained that I've been running
> like that for well 
> > over a year now . . .  .
> > 
> > Thought you guys might like to know how far you
> lead by.
> 
> I find that really funny because we had a discussion
> about using ferite
> to achieve that in E17 at least 9 months ago as
> well. ;) I think cK, boris
> and I were discussing it.. cool that you're already
> doing it though. :)
> 
> Actually my twist on the idea was to have what
> raster now calls a
> "shelf" (iirc.. I was calling it a "floating
> desktop" way back when) on
> a tab like that, so in addition to multiple and
> virtual desktops, you'd
> have floating ones that you could bring up and were
> essentially sticky
> between the other two desktop types. Not sure if I'm
> still going to do
> it, but it was a theme idea (hence using ferite :).
> 
> term

I hope you through your code for floating desks in as
an option anyhow.  I'd be willing to spend some time
doing necessary work.  If you feel it's not everything
you see it needing to be.  And nobody else wants it. 
Alot a great potential here...  I seen a screenshot of
this (probably yours) not so long ago.

Anyhow... a kudos for the versitility of E17/ferite.


=====
Khonshu
D-vine Logic Group

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