My previous post criticized modern desktop environments (like gnome-shell and KDE 4.6) because they lack anything resembling efficient window management. It’s not a surprising view coming from someone that’s been spoiled by Xmonad’s beautifully easy mouse-free window management and dynamic layouts. I’m not going to talk about window management today though. I installed a fresh [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
The Sad State of Mainstream Window Management
No doubt you’ve all been keeping (or have been kept depending on how you read the news) up on the GNOME 3.0 / gnome-shell / Unity stuff that’s been going on. In short, the new major version of the typical GNOME desktop, 3.0, has reinvented the way that you interact with your desktop. Initially I [...]
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