> Overlapping windows as an interface metaphor were invented over 40 years ago with the Xerox Star. Since then, the amount and complexity of how we use computer

> Overlapping windows as an interface metaphor were invented over 40 years ago with the Xerox Star. Since then, the amount and complexity of how we use computers has increased dramatically. Windows are now inefficient and incompatible with modern productivity interfaces. For more, read my blog post "Window Management is Outdated". Uuhm [1]: > The first Xerox Star system (released in 1981) tiled application windows, but allowed dialogs and property windows to overlap.[1] Later, Xerox PARC also developed CEDAR[2] (released in 1982), the first windowing system using a tiled window manager. Tiling window managers were first, and I think I prefer the less bloated offerings already available compared to this. What does this do for productivity that existing tiling managers do not? or is this a mac/windows specific thing. [edit] Yeah this sounds horrible: > Click and hold on the touchpad with one finger to open the context menu wherever you are looking. Then swipe to select an action. How is this better than a right click context menu? it's not, it's a physically slower event, and a UI that is less capable of adapting to it's context due to geometric limitations just cos "CIRCLES". This is integrating phone HID into desktops for the sake of it, this is unification at the cost of productivity not for the benefit of productivity. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#History