| sorear | dons: my todo wrt nobench: (a) create templates $(eval foo) so that adding new compiler option sets is a one-line affair (b) get it using time(1) so I can safely run it in the background (c) have anacron do a daily nobench run! (d) parser-friendly XML output |
| dons | re. d) the output is dumped into a .db file for each test that's just a 'show/read' structure that is easy enough to parse the other things all sound good i want to add hbc support today, and port the rest of nofib |
| xic | dancor: you mean just windows from your application, or all of the windows from all applications? |
| sorear | dons: where are the .db files? are they not created until the very end? er, found em. find(1) saves the day. xic: he specified "writing an expose-like thing", so all apps |
| xic | oh...... don't do that. "expose" is shit |
| dons | ;2A |
| Cale | Expos? It's better than nothing, it's not a replacement for multiple desktops. |
| dancor | xic: all windows |
| xic | a replacement for multiple desktops would be a window manager with tagging support, like wmii :) dancor: i'm not even sure that you can do this with xlib |
| dancor | Cale: i just want a better alt+tab Cale: bringing all window into view and numbering them for selection seems good to me |
| sorear | Alt-Fn forever! C-x b is also handy, esp with iswitchb |
| Cale | The only problem with the Expos way to do it is that often you have lots of windows which look similar when scaled down. |
| dancor | yeah |
| sorear | I don't like windows. |
| dancor | Cale: so you just don't overlap and remember which desktop different things are on? |
| sorear | dons: gah, on partial-sums yhc is >33% slower than hugs! |
| action | ddarius should get Ubuntu on the web so he can use ion in a friendly environment. |
| ddarius | should get Ubuntu on the web so he can use ion in a friendly environment. |
| Cale | Yeah, I mostly organise things into desktops, and I have a taskbar in my panel that shows the windows on the current desktop. |
| xic | dancor: my window manager doesn't let me overlap windows, and it lets me tag windows |
| sorear | And I don't use windows at all. |
| Cale | I liked Enlightenment's pager, back when I used it. It showed a snapshot of each of your desktops, and the windows were actually draggable in the pager. |
| sorear | I can, I have a system supporting them ... but I never want to use it. Fitt's law can be completely subverted by eschewing mice. |
| Shammah | Cale: I do however find the expose approach a really useful adjunct to virtual desktops - especially on a v.small screen. |
| Cale | When combined with multiple desktops, it's nice because there are probably only a few windows to look through on each desktop |
| sorear | yhi executes very different instructions from ghc or hugs |
| Shammah | Cale: exactly - I personally find expose invaluable given I'm using a 12" display here. |
| sorear | I have the kind of computer that makes perceptibly different noises depending on the instruction mix :) |
| Cale | Hehe, when I was using it, I had a 23" display :) |
| Shammah | I can have 4-6 overlapping windows per desktop over 4 desktops gives me up to 24 windows open and I don't really notice the smaller display that much as expose allows me to quickly get a handle on any given desktop. |