Re: windowmaker's backgrounds

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From: Chris Devers
Subject: Re: windowmaker's backgrounds
Date: 16:23 on 23 May 2005
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:

> As far as I can tell that's so you can, if for some weird reason you
> want to do this, give it different backgrounds for each desktop.

I thought that was part of the *point* of different desktops.

Back in the days before X11 drove me insane, having different wallpaper
backgrounds for each virtual desktop was a useful cue about which one I
was coping with at any given time. Even if they're all just different
solid colors, I need something like that to clarify which is which.

But then I realized that virtual desktops, as appealing as they seemed
to be at first, just left me hopelessly confused most of the time, and I
came to hate them the same way that I hate the way Windows "helpfully"
hides all the menu options that you haven't used in the last 10 minutes.
"Out of sight, out of mind" is annoyingly effective on me, and if my UI
starts hiding things, I tend to forget that they were available at all.



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Chris Devers
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