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Sadly, the article completely fails to mention the amazingly useful innovations made by tiling window managers like wmii, ion3 and xmonad. Granted, they're not
by blankslate 15y ago
Sadly, the article completely fails to mention the amazingly useful innovations made by tiling window managers like wmii, ion3 and xmonad.
Granted, they're not as new as Unity et al, but they offer a compelling, complete and fairly radical departure from tradition, and one that I really do miss on OS X.
- rbanffy 15y agoWindows 1 used tiled windows (MS programmers didn't learn how to overlap windows until Windows 2) and Emacs has them since the 70's. I am not sure if tiling windows could be called innovation.
- Symmetry 15y agoThere's a big difference between just having tiling windows and having all the features that make them more useful than a stacking windows manager. But really we should be giving credit to Plan 9 here for pioneering the model of the modern tiling windows manager.
- rbanffy 15y agoPlan 9 deserves a whole lot more credit than just that. It's really a shame we are still using Unix-like OSs and not Plan 9-like ones.
- username3 15y agoThe first version (Windows 1.0) featured a tiling window manager, partly because of litigation by Apple claiming ownership of the overlapping window desktop metaphor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#History