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[RP] Everybody's a critic.


From: R. Clayton
Subject: [RP] Everybody's a critic.
Date: Sat Oct 6 13:31:02 2001

Too many terms ("pane" vs. "frame", "display" vs. "screen"), too many different
uses of the same term ("window" vs. "real window"), undescriptive and vague
("It can be split into more frames") rather than descriptive and concrete ("A
pane may be split in half, either vertically or horizontally, forming two
panes").  How about

  ratpoison is a @dfn{paned} window manager. Instead of providing windows with
  arbitrary shapes at arbitrary locations on the screen, ratpoison divides the
  screen into rectangular panes and fits each window into a pane, adjusting the
  window's size to fill the pane. ratpoison starts with one pane, which takes
  up the entire screen.  A pane may be split in half, either vertically or
  horizontally, forming two panes (see @ref{Splitting Panes}); two half panes
  may be merged back into a single pane (see @ref{Merging Panes}).  Keyboard
  input goes to the window in the pane with input focus; input focus may be
  cyclically shifted among the panes (see @ref{Input Focus}).

I've made up the cross-reference tags, but you get the idea.



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