Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 28, 2006 03:58 AM
So-called 'modern desktop environments' are totally unusable
Right. That's why our entire office staff, who use KDE exclusively, can never use their computers.
Ion was written as an experiment on a different kind of window management model. It tries to address the navigation problem by dividing the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames that take up the whole screen.
Oh, so Ion uses tabs instead of panel buttons, and frames instead of resized windows. How revolutionary!
Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.
Well, there you go. If you can't work effectively with a mouse, then this is the environment for you.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 28, 2006 03:58 AMRight. That's why our entire office staff, who use KDE exclusively, can never use their computers.
Ion was written as an experiment on a different kind of window management model. It tries to address the navigation problem by dividing the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames that take up the whole screen.
Oh, so Ion uses tabs instead of panel buttons, and frames instead of resized windows. How revolutionary!
Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.
Well, there you go. If you can't work effectively with a mouse, then this is the environment for you.
Blah blah blah.
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