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diff --git a/x11-wm/ion/pkg-descr b/x11-wm/ion/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6836b64dbe47 --- /dev/null +++ b/x11-wm/ion/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Ion (based on PWM) is a new kind of window manager that brings a +text-editorish, keyboard friendly user interface to window management. + +Modern GUIs are unusable. Overlapping windows are hard to manage, especially +from the keyboard, and the user often ends up in a jungle. Not to mention the +application programs, which are even worse. Mouse-based search-and-click +interfaces are slow - keyboard is fast having learnt the commands. Ion (the +last three letters of vision =-) was written as an example and an experiment of +something presumably better (just the window manager, though). + +Ion simply divides the screen into frames that take the whole screen. Big +displays have so much space that this is convenient and smaller displays +couldn't show more than one window at a time anyway. The frames can be split +and growing the size of one will shrink others. Alike in PWM, clients can be +moved between frames and multiple clients can be attached to one frame. + +With Ion you will hardly ever have to touch the mouse again for navigation +between windows and the windows are always in order. + +WWW: http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ + +-- Robert Ricci + ricci@cs.utah.edu |