Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 31st May 2007 21:08 UTC
"If you use a traditional desktop like GNOME or KDE, a keyboard-controlled desktop with a minimum of utilities may seem like stepping back 10 or 15 years in the history of interface design. Why bother, when traditional desktops are easy to use and RAM and disk space are so cheap nowadays?" On a related note, there is a new release of xmonad, a tiling window manager for X, written in Haskell. It now has full Xinerama and XRandR support, so you can add, remove, or rotate monitors on the fly.
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2006-05-09
Keyboard oriented desktop are a must for, by example, my parents... My mother is not happy using the mouse and with a keyboard oriented desktop, she could have a list like:
- Type S to open the shell
- Type konqueror to run the web browser
- Type F to select the address
- Type google to open the navigator
- Press "1" to go to the search zone
etc.
It seems to be more intuitive and easier than "go to the blue K with the mouse, left click, select this, go with the mouse to ..."