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Just started downloading Haiku ,looks cool to me.
by nitinmartolia 14y ago
Just started downloading Haiku ,looks cool to me.
- rbanffy 14y agoWe have machines scattered throughout the office for meetings (mostly Jira or other web applications). One of those has Haiku running and people seem to like it just fine. I do find, however, the ergonomics of the window manager to be atrocious. The little tabs, while faithful and part of the visual identity of BeOS, are, perhaps, the worst idea since the invention of overlapping windows. I'd suggest focusing on the 80's icon style and 45° perspective as visual identify and ditch the title tabs.
- tqh 14y agoThe stack and tile functions might make you reconsider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-6YmGd30A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-6YmGd30A
- mesec 14y agoAmazing stuff, thanks for the link!
- rbanffy 14y agoCool, but I still think tabs should be as wide as the window when not stacked. Small tabs only make hitting them harder.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoProtip (sorry for using the term), stop using the titlebar to move Windows. I feel physically encumbered when using Windows or OS X because I can't Alt+Drag windows around. It will make you so much faster because you just hold Alt and click and drag. No more searching for that tiny little microscopic bit of window to drag. (For example, Chrome on OS X has almost NO hit space to drag the window). I guess this post is sorta useless if you don't use Linux, but take it for what it's worth I guess.
- rbanffy 14y agoI have given up on windows. Most of the time mine are maximized and I switch spaces instead.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoI can't bring myself to do that on a 15.4" screen (I like the real estate specifically for multitasking and looking back and forth) but I've seen it leveraged extremely well on a 11/13" Air.
- rms25 14y agoI want to install it on my EEE pc netbook, it seems perfect for a system with low resources