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knowing absolutely nothing about patent law, I'm surprised that tiling window managers are not considered prior art or would at least mean this idea is not nove
by RayVR 9y ago
knowing absolutely nothing about patent law, I'm surprised that tiling window managers are not considered prior art or would at least mean this idea is not novel.
- ferbivore 9y agoRead the patent. I'm not aware of any TWMs implementing the kind of grid interface Moom is using.
- RayVR 9y agoI did read the patent but I don't understand exactly what moom does. If a tiling window manager defines a set of inputs for defining grids and moving/resizing windows on that grid, where is the difference?
- ferbivore 9y agoThe actual patent document, with drawings, is at [1]. It describes the visual, mouse-driven grid UI Moom uses to let you draw out where windows should be placed. As far as I can tell it doesn't mention anything about hotkeys. [1]: http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=08434019&IDKey=70F1BA777FF4&HomeUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D8434019.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F8434019%2526RS%3DPN%2F8434019 http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=08434019&IDKey=...
- akio 9y agoWindow Tidy had it as early as 2011. http://lightpillar.com/window-tidy.html http://lightpillar.com/window-tidy.html