Re: Terms of endearment

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Here is a short description of some of those terms

docking - attaching something to something else.  An example is the
  GnomeDock widget, which is what allows you to dock the toolbars and
  menubar of an application to any side of the application work area.

swallowing - the applets on the panel are actually seperate programs.
  Their toplevel window is `swallowed' into the panel, which is why they
  apear as part of the panel.  The swallow app menu item allows you to
  swallow any application into the panel.  Note that swallowing sometimes
  does not work correctly with enlightenment.

paging - this may be used in the context of a desktop pager.  It may refer
  to switching between different virtual areas of the desktop.  It also
  refers to moving memory pages between swap space and real memory, but
  you probably didn't hear it in this context.

warf - a clone of Nextstep's dock.  Refers to the button bar down the
  right hand side of the screen in a lot of window maker or afterstep
  screenshots.

James.

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On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Mark M. Wilson wrote:

> Maybe I've missed it, but I'd like to know where in the documentation
> (FAQ, the Gnome User's Guide, etc.) can I find the definitions for
> certain terms which, as a recovering Windows user, I've never
> encountered before: "docking," "swallowing," "paging," "wharfs" (I find
> the nautical derivation of some of these rather curious)? I find them
> referred to on the list (esp. paging and swallowing) and have never been
> clued in. I 've seen them before in the lore of other window mgrs. as
> well--AfterStep, WindowMaker, Enlightenment.  Maybe if you can't find
> the defs in the doc either, just tell me?
> Mark M. Wilson
> 
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