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I'm patiently waiting for the desktop metaphor to die. I'm a very happy user of i3 (tiling) window manager and it's beautiful how efficiently it uses space. Mea
by b0rsuk 5y ago
I'm patiently waiting for the desktop metaphor to die. I'm a very happy user of i3 (tiling) window manager and it's beautiful how efficiently it uses space. Meanwhile in the "desktop metaphor" world, interface designers have settled on fullscreen applications (skype, even music players) and tabs. Because no one wants to bother moving application windows around with mouse.
i3 is explicitly for power users, but someone will eventually take the idea of tiling window managers and make something with a low learning curve. And that will be the end of desktop icons and movable windows.
- nunodonato 5y agoSo if I just use every window in maximized mode, what's the big advantage of i3?
- b0rsuk 5y agoNone. But I think you won't feel the need to maximize all if you use screen space efficient apps. When you use a tiling WM, you care about it much more. Old applications like winamp and even old skype had to fit inside resolutions like 800x600 or 1024x768. But UI designers and programmers started being lazy, just like they no longer care much about CPU/memory efficiency so we get lots of Electron and badly optimized websites(JS). And if tiling WMs became more common, developers would make fewer apps that waste screen space.
- LegitShady 5y agofancyzones is a free windows powertoy already. Everyone who thinks they need one can have one.