window management ideas

[Alexander Shenoy]

I think tagging has a very good advantage to average users. Applications
could be tagged so their windows show up in the same tag group each time
they are launched. Also, you could have default tags either set by
developers, or set using the program groups from the Kickoff menu. This way
the time messing around with tags would be reduced. I think that tagging
would help b/c it would help sort information. Even with virtual desktops,
my windows are very cluttered.

An alternative would be to tie application windows to a certain virtual
desktop. Although this doesn't solve the "I want konsole on my Programming
and Virtualization Desktops" problem, it will help with window management
b/c the user doesnt have to switch desktops before launching the application
to ensure the application lives on the right virtual desktop.

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Alexander Shenoy
Student
University of Pittsburgh

four.sentenc.es


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Chani <chanika at gmail.com> wrote:

> On July 14, 2009 22:41:32 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Friday 10 July 2009, Chani wrote:
> > > what I wanted is window tagging.
> >
> > do windows live long enough for tagging to work?
>
> mine live for weeks. they'd live for months if I wasn't recompiling kde all
> the time. is this not common?
> also, I'd like it if tagging was more automatic at some point.
>
> >
> > would there be an "always there" tag?
>
> yeah
>
> >
> > how easy is it to tag a window? (this is an interaction design concept)
>
> I'd hope it'd be as easy as it is to move a window to another desktop right
> now.
>
> >
> > how does tagging interact with activities? (i suppose that's answered in
> > the "windowgroups / pager / ZUI" thread?)
>
> we could have an activity associated with a tag, or maybe we could keep
> them
> independent...
>
> >
> > what's the average user advantage in this?
>
> hrm. perhaps not much, given that the average user doesn't even use virtual
> desktops.
>
> >
> > how much work is saved or how much efficiency gained versus how much time
> > spent messing around with tagging?
>
> good question. I'd certainly want to keep hte messing-around time to a
> minimum.
>
> >
> >
> > this feels like a very geek feature that i can't see many people using. i
> > could be wrong .... but tagging really tends to work when:
> >
> > * the data set is large
>
> how large? I have a couple of dozen konq tabs that I think I could manage
> more
> easily with tagging.
>
> > * the data set is long lived (so value accrues over time)
>
> I want to eventually have these tags be persistent - tagging of
> applications,
> documents etc.
>
> > * the data set is shared by many people (so there's value reaped from
> > other's work or by being able to tie several people's work together in
> > unique ways)
>
> yeah, we don't have this at all until we bring in document tags.
>
> >
> > because of that, tagging works _fabulously_ for things like photo sharing
> > websites and online news aggregation.
> >
> > how well does it work for a small, often/usually temporary, non-shared
> data
> > set?
>
>
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