Re: The State Of The Art

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

You can almost do this with fvwm at the moment.  With it, you can use any
viewport (within reason -- not hanging off the side of the desktop, and
has to be oriented normally).  The fvwm config file command Scroll allows
you to scroll in a minimum of 1% of the screen area.  From memory you can
also middle click on the pager to move the viewport to an arbitrary
position.

>From this base, it would be quite simple to modify fvwm to use a
cylindrical desktop metaphor.

As for the argument about whether you are on the inside or outside of the
cylinder, I think that topologically these are indistinguishable when
using a small flat viewport.

James.

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On Tue, 25 May 1999, Dr Geek wrote:

> >Correct me if Im wrong Dr Geek, but doesn't your idea involve 'sliding'
> >from point A to point B?  Not just getting a fresh desktop when you hit the
> >edge?
> Yes.  The desktops aren't "quantized"; it's all one big desktop area.  Like 
> a large virtual desktop, but the panel and taskbar and all that stuff stick 
> to the glass.
> dr g
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