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From: ems <oat@iin...>
Subject: gcc on plan9
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:25:59 +1000

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 21:51 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: 
> 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?

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