Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Aug 2009 19:08 UTC
A complaint you hear quite often is that the Linux desktop environments, which mostly refers to KDE and GNOME, are trying too hard to be like Windows and Mac OS X. Now, even James Bottomley, Distinguished Engineer at Novell, Director of the Linux Foundation, and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board (put that on your business card) states in an interview that he believes the Linux desktop is too much like Windows and Mac.
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2007-11-17
You mean something like this?
http://kodeclutz.blogspot.com/2009/08/tiling-screencast_24.html
(It is a screencast about the tiling capabilities that kwin gained during the last season of kde program. Extra kudos to the developer Nikhil Marathe Gandhinagar, who worked on this project over the course of the summer even though it was not granted a slot in this years GSOC)
Implementing tiling specific compositing is afaik on the roadmap once the basic functionality is ready for trunk.
Edited 2009-08-28 06:47 UTC