On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 13:17, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:02:48PM -0400, Dominic Amann wrote: > > It seems that the "debate" between workspaces and viewports happened > > back in January, someplace between someone's ears, and the decision was > > made to drop viewports, and use workspaces. > > I like that "someplace between someone's ears". What we use > to call in support as "operator headspace" when someone did something > penultimately stupid. Please take your invective somewhere else. It is uninformed and unenlightening. Whilst hesitating to introduce facts into your argument, for your information, the workspace vs. viewport discussion happened on public mailing lists back in late 2001 and the first half of 2002 -- it did not happen in Jan 2003 and was not done in somebody's head. The debate has resurfaced periodically since then, but without anything pertinent being added. Reasonably summaries of the rationale behind the decision and the opposition case can be found by browsing the archives of desktop-devel-list in the couple of months leading up to the release of GNOME 2.0 (June 2002). You may not agree with the decision (I did not, at the time), but calling it stupid is unreasonable. If you would like to use a window manager with viewports, then go for it. GNOME is not a window manager. It does work fairly well with EWMH-compliant window. For example, searching the archives I point to above (or reading the old GNOME 2.0 release notes) will show you how to set up Sawfish to have a viewport behaviour. Malcolm _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
