Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 21:48:04 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: WindowMaker Message-ID: <19990209114805.17271.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990208214218.C5258@sr.se> of Mon, 08 Feb 1999 21:42:18 %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902080843100.26971-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> <19990208174308.13039.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> <19990208214218.C5258@sr.se>
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> > > The updated port for Window Maker has been submitted for more than a week > > > but no one has committed it - dig through GNATS to find it. > > > > I'd be interested to know if the update has any significant new > > features and/or altered functionality or if it's just some bug > > fixes. I had a look at the version on the 2.2.8 CDs and thought > > it was pleasant enough but fatally flawed for my customers > > because of the clumsy method for navigating between desktops. > > Has that been improved? > > I don't think Alt-1, Alt-2 to get to desktop 1 and 2 is so very clumsy. It's a matter of opinion. My customers think it's clumsy. Therefore, as far as I am concerned, it is. > It's the first good implementation of desktop walking with the keyboard > I've found. There are other window managers in the ports collection that use simple key strokes to navigate around their desktops. But, as I said, my customers want to do it with a simple mouse click -- it is a GUI, after all, and for them that means a mouse click. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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