Re: Dashboard for GS

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <2b8u8q$5c7@zip.eecs.umich.edu> grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes:

>     Amazing!  I was wondering the same thing, and then voila!  It was
>shown in the November Computer Shopper magazine.  I guess the best way
>to describe it is sort of as a Control-Panel-like window that features
>memory usage (gas gauge), clock, allows DOS commands, and lets you
>open new programs (although under multi-tasking Windows it remains open).
>It looks like it would combine several existing NDAs into one.

It's also a lot like vuewm (HP's extended multi-desktop Motif) in that you can
switch workspaces.  Doing this on the GS would be practical as an extension to
something like The Manager, but not otherwise.


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