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Ion (based on PWM) is a new kind of window manager that brings a
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text-editorish, keyboard friendly user interface to window management.
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Modern GUIs are unusable. Overlapping windows are hard to manage, especially
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from the keyboard, and the user often ends up in a jungle. Not to mention the
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application programs, which are even worse. Mouse-based search-and-click
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interfaces are slow - keyboard is fast having learnt the commands. Ion (the
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last three letters of vision =-) was written as an example and an experiment of
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something presumably better (just the window manager, though).
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Ion simply divides the screen into frames that take the whole screen. Big
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displays have so much space that this is convenient and smaller displays
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couldn't show more than one window at a time anyway. The frames can be split
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and growing the size of one will shrink others. Alike in PWM, clients can be
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moved between frames and multiple clients can be attached to one frame.
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With Ion you will hardly ever have to touch the mouse again for navigation
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between windows and the windows are always in order.
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WWW: http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
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-- Robert Ricci
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ricci@cs.utah.edu
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