Clément Delafargue - Commentaires

divarvel - Tab Candy: They're (poorly) reinventing the Wheel

divarvel — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:30:50 +0200

divarvel - Yup, I currently use uzbl for that, but I should compare the two solutions, in terms of weight / convenience.

Kazé - Tab Candy: They're (poorly) reinventing the Wheel

Kazé — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:19:14 +0200

I’d say that if you just want to run web apps in their own windows, Prism should be a pretty straight-forward solution: http://prism.mozillalabs.com/

divarvel - Tab Candy: They're (poorly) reinventing the Wheel

divarvel — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:34:48 +0200

divarvel - I was not saying you're not working on real issues, I was saying this one is not really an issue :P

divarvel - Tab Candy: They're (poorly) reinventing the Wheel

divarvel — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:32:59 +0200

I was deliberately a bit violent just to make people react ;-) (and to express my frustration).

I'm really happy with firefox, and think that Mozilla does a great work

I use a tiling WM to, but my point is more on consistency than on features. Even with a plain old floating WM, I used to have different windows for firefox and it was ok.

Of course I use tabs (even though in can have tabs managed by my WM). But for gmail, or other webapps, I prefer to run it separately (to take advantage of the virtual desktops for instance)

Kazé - Tab Candy: They're (poorly) reinventing the Wheel

Kazé — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:03:28 +0200

I’ve been using tiling window managers for three years now (dwm, awesome, wmii and now i3). I kinda see your point — “kinda”, cause I still prefer to have tabs in my browser: I switch windows with Vim-like shortcuts (super+HJKL), I switch/move tabs with similar shortcuts (meta+HJKL)… and the overall consistency is done thanks to Vimperator. Call me a nerd.

However, how many people use a “non-stoneage” WM nowadays? Probably less than 0.1% of all internet users. When you write “now you can work on real issues”, you’re just saying that Mozilla addresses the issues of the other 99.9% users instead of yours.

Like Paul, I’d like to know what “real issues” Mozilla isn’t working on?

Paul Rouget - Tab Candy: They're (poorly) reinventing the Wheel

Paul Rouget — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:38:13 +0200

Ok. What is this magic Window Manager?

multiplatform, with grouping, which would allow sharing and unload, net connection (for sync), extensibility and theming (for web dev), ...

BTW, what are the real issues we are not working on?