Re: [Usability] Hiding Viewports

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 09:34, John Sheehan wrote:
> 
> The omission of viewports from the new Workspace List applet
> is definitely a positive step to a more simple usable desktop.
> 
> However there are still remnants of viewport functionality
> via the Control Centre whereby users can create viewports
> and allow access to them by edge flipping.
> 
> In the current port of the Sawfish capplet, is there any
> agreement that the two viewport options in the Control Centre 
> Workspace tabs be omitted i.e. don't cut out out Viewport
> functionality from Sawfish, just don't allow it to be accessed.

I don't know if it will be possible for this release, but we would
really like to ditch all the Sawfish capplets. The generic "Window
Properties" capplet is not finished though, so we may be stuck with
sawfish capplets for one more release (oh well).

-seth