[Discuss] XFCE

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 08:37:55PM -0500, Tom Metro wrote:
> > There's no support for titlebar on the side.
> 
> Titlebar on the side? I've never heard of that.
> 
> You're not talking about a panel on the side?

No, moving the titlebar to the left or right side of each
window. Usually involves rotating text as well. If you've got a
16:9 monitor, it makes some sense, as horizontal pixels are
cheaper than vertical pixels.

> In my opinion, all desktop apps, to the greatest extent possible, should
> be designed to be crash proof, saving their work periodically, and
> restoring all state on restart.

In general, they are a lot better about that now than they were
five years ago.

-dsr-