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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lan...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:51:33 -0600

so, end of this thread, we hope.

GARSH, Mickey, I had no idea this would happen. You make one simple 
comment, and ... ah well.

anyways, a few thoughts on another tangent.

linux nowadays is all about building a windows desktop. BORING. Or a Mac 
OSX ripoff desktop. BORING. And just look at all that great vista stuff. 
oh boy, I can slant my windows or something. Who the F*** cares?

What if you had a window manager that could be recursive? that would set 
it up so you can name windows by a path name? that would let you treat 
the recursive desktops -- to any level -- as just another window? that 
would trivially allow you to connect mouse clicks in a window to control 
actions for one or more other windows (i.e. you could logically group 
windows and then control all of them via mouse clicks)? That would maybe 
let you easily connect output from a process in one window to another? 
that would let you build little widgets that  could easily control other 
windows? That would let you display all window state in another window? 
That would let you set, say, all windows with a browser with the label 
abaco-### (### a number), with a simple text command; and let you find 
all windows with the label abaco.* with, in the limit, a grep? That 
would make it easy to group all windows with the label 'abaco.*' so that 
you could say 'hide all abaco' with a simple script?

Wouldn't that be neat? I mean, that's a real bitch in X, right?

Except ... you already have it.

ron