Re: vtm: tiling window manager with drag and drop

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote at 01:32 this Monday (GMT):

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote at 15:20 this Friday (GMT):

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote at 00:31 this Sunday (GMT):

Has anyone ever tried this?
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It is a text-based application where the entire user interface is
represented by a mosaic of text cells forming a TUI matrix. The
resulting TUI matrix is ​​just rendered either into its own GUI window or
into a compatible text console.
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It can wrap any console application and be nested indefinitely, forming
a text-based desktop environment.
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Sources:
https://github.com/directvt/vtm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofkoxGjFWQ

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It's certainly a cool idea, but I don't see why you wouldn't just go
full terminal (tmux) or full ui (another wm). Maybe this would be useful
for SSH sessions, though?

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That's close to what I thought.  I think we've reached a point where a
lot of good stuff is already done and we don't really need more, even
though people can do amazing stuff.

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Reinventing the wheel can be good for learning, but I definitely agree.

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Indeed.  When studying something, reinventing the wheel is of primary
importance.  I tend to say ``you don't master until you build it''.
(And, in fact, building once is usually far from enough.)

Good to know.

I'm currently reading an article whose title is ``[t]he computer built
to last 50 years'' by Ploum, dated 2021 February 4Th.  (I should post it
here.)  The article has this tone---we don't need to replace computers
all the time.  Most of that ``need'' is actually just distraction.
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We suffer a lot from distraction.  If we remove all distraction, what
happens?  We get distracted with what we have left---which is probably a
pretty good deal. :)

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Productive distraction :D

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That's right. :D
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Even most of our conversations here on USENET would be classified as
distraction.  But I don't think we should kill conversation because
thinking is important in work and I do think thinking is kind of a
collective thing. 
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I've had thoughts of working a lot in offline mode.  I could get USENET
messages every Monday, say, and then spend the rest of the week in
USENET offline mode.  Just that move is already a time saver because
working in batch mode is /usually/ more efficient.

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I use slrnpull, but it's set up to sync every 10 minutes or so. Seeing a
ton of messages piled up makes me kinda nervous.

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Lol.  How about syncing it daily?

Maybe I will. It's just programmed using a crontab job anyway. The only
thing is I'd have to remember how to make it not download a max of 20
messages per sync. On the other hand, that would definitely help make it
not be an overwhelming amount of messages :D
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