Re: gnome-terminal idea

[David Jeske <jeske home chat net>]

The idea below does not require any CORBA objects. Any window manager
could do it. All you have to do is use the same window hints which
they use currently to figure out which icon to display for the
window. Namely, the application name.

I started to hack fvwm to do this over a year ago, but I didn't have
time to finish it and my job role changed so that I primarily used
windows PCs instead of primarily using UNIX so I never went back to
complete it.

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:49:32PM -0700, Thuau, Joachim wrote:
> When you talked about that, are you thinking of a CORBA object that
> wait for programs to register into it (Aplication name, Doc, Name)
> That way we have something similar to what BeOS does (close to that
> scheme)
> 
> Is it possible ? (yes, i'm sure, but it implies a lot of work to
> update the appsS$$ ... or when the panel run something, register it
> to that object ...  )
> 
> > I think the BeOS again has a much better UI in this area also. They
> > have a 'taskbar' but they list items by application horizontally, and
> > then by full document name after you click. As it turns out, Nextstep
> > 4.1 alpha did this first though.
> > 
> > For example, in fvwm, or in Windows95, if you open several web pages
> > in netscape, all of the taskbar buttons basically have a netscape icon
> > and a few letters. In BeOS, the taskbar buttons list the application
> > names (whether it is one copy of the application, or many copies of
> > the application running in different address spaces). When you click
> > on the button, it opens a menu going up from the taskbar which lists
> > all the document names. Because the document names are arranged
> > vertically, it can include the FULL name of the document.
> > 
> > Ex:
> > 
> >           _______________________________________________
> >          | AltaVista: Main Page                          |
> >          | Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters. |
> >          | 3Dfx Interactive, Inc.                        |
> > _________|_______________________________________________|___________
> > <start>  | Netscape   |  xterm   |                           12:00pm |
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >                |
> >                +- here we clicked on Netscape..
> >               
> > 
> > 
> 
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