Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
> On 01:58 17 Aug 2002, Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de> wrote:
> | On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:02:45PM +0000, Saku Sammakko wrote:
> | > A humble suggestion for pager:
> | > [... app thumbnails in pager ...]
> | I'm afrai, but that feature cannot be written in X in a fashion
> | that would be actually usable. When a window is not currently
> | visible, its contents may not be anywhere in memory, so the pager
> | cannot find out what to draw in the mini window. And even if the
> | window is on screen, this would need ridiculous amounts of memory
> | and take so long to update that nobody would use it. I'm sorry to
> | say this, but X simply doesn't provide an interface for background
> | drawing.
>
> I think E (or Evolution? I forget) has such a pager.
yes, enlightenment
I just started E and it seems to be updated with small delay
(seconds), quite impressive. Another nice (as in good looking, not sure
how useful it is) feature is the zooming of the window in pager when the
mouse is over it.
erik
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Received on Sat Aug 17 2002 - 00:51:33 BST