Re: To quickly cut through the fog: workspaces vs. viewports

[Michael Toomim <toomim cs berkeley edu>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Anyway, the GNOME 2 decision was to have the configurable kind of
> space, but not to allow more than one kind, and you have to name it
> "Workspace." Whether to make each feature (edge-flipping or whatever)
> available as an option for this single kind of space is an orthogonal
> question to how many kinds of space you can have at once.

Thanks, Havoc.  This was very helpful.

>  - Workspaces vs. Viewports = Implementation Detail You Don't Care About
>
>  - Specific Features = Thing To Be Discussed On Individual Merits Of Each Feature

So then, perhaps much of the argument for viewports could be rephrased as:

    "We should be implementing gnome_workspaces using wm_viewports 
instead of wm_workspaces, because wm_viewports give us features X, Y, 
and Z for free, whereas we have to implement them ourselves in 
wm_workspaces."


Michael