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Re: Screenshot Review: Kompose' - Expose' like, Full Screen Task Manager
(Score: 1, Interesting)
by Anonymous on Sep 08, 2004 - 02:22 PM
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More Prior Art.
Roughly contemporaneous with this was the OpenLook Virtual Window Manager, OLVWM, which had a cartoon of the virtual desktops showing outline boxes for the running applications. Not only could you drag apps from one virtual desktop to another, you could drag them from the current real desktop to a virtual one, and back. Much slicker than KDE's pick-one-desktop-and-pin-the-apps-then-switch-to-another and-unpin-them way of doing things!
I used to run this on a 16M '486-66. It had horsepower to spare.
Maybe an "outline mode" option for Kompose' would be useful to those who are a little horsepower-starved. Or who are trying to make use of the horsepower they happen to own on other heavyweight applications!
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Dan Wilder <wilder@eskimo.com>
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Re: Screenshot Review: Kompose' - Expose' like, Full Screen Task Manager
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by Anonymous on Sep 08, 2004 - 02:34 PM
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Hi,
Mate, I think you've got it wrong. From what I can see in the screenshot, CTWM just uses a small box with a box abstracting the windows. Expose and brethen are completely different - they are *full screen* window chooser thingy's (*grin) - whether this is innovative is up to you to decide, but there's not doubt that it is different from CTWM. I'm not sure if apple came up with it first, but have yet to see evidence to the contrary. Also, enlightenment (and many other WM's) have had the CTWM-like feature for years (although not before CTWM), and personally, I find Apple's take on it far better.
Bye,
Victor
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Re: Screenshot Review: Kompose' - Expose' like, Full Screen Task Manager
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by Anonymous on Sep 08, 2004 - 06:02 PM
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Actually, KDE has (and has had since 1.0, IIRC) what you're describing.
Run kpager. It'll sit wherever you place it and you can drag/drop windows from one virtual desktop to another or click on an app to give it the focus. It'll display each window as a thumbprint, an icon or name.
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Re: Screenshot Review: Kompose' - Expose' like, Full Screen Task Manager
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by Anonymous on Sep 09, 2004 - 10:14 AM
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However Kompose'/Expose' and all not only go fullscreen, but show the contents (which is useful if you have more than one of each application open, so you can see the contents to pick the right one) and also show each window without overlaping, making the correct selection even easier. It really is different and some people find it very useful and intuitive.
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