[Wine] Re: Concept: Wine as a workspace

[MadnessRed]

austin987 wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:05 AM, MadnessRed <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I had an idea which I would like to post. Not sure if this is the right place but I don't see anywhere else.
> > 
> > Where you can run wine as a window. "Emulate Virtual Desktop", would it be possible to set a workspace up as a virtual desktop?
> > 
> > I am interested to know what other people think, am I the only one who would like this or do other peopel thin its a good idea too?
> > 
> > Also I a not sure how hard it would be to do, maybe there is a simple tweak or maybe it needs a lot of changes to the source.
> > 
> > Anyway a quick mockup is below.
> > 
> > [Image: http://madnessred.co.cc/anthony/concept.jpg ]
> > 
> > 
> 
> The point of a virtual desktop is to take away control from the window
> manager. Making it a workspace would defeat that purpose (or require
> much tighter integration with the wm, which would be hard to make work
> across wm's).
> 
> -- 
> -Austin


ok, I see your point, I was thinking more of the same windows as we have a the moment just it would be full screen, except it would not cover the panels.