From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-12-08T10:14:58+09:00
Subject: Re: IRB GUI on OSX?

On Monday 07 December 2009 03:33:50 pm Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> David Masover wrote:
> > If it's not already the default, bind command+left/right to
> > next/previous
> > window in Terminal.
> 
> No need.  That's what Cmd-Grave and Cmd-Sh-Grave already do.

Ah, fair enough -- though I still prefer combinations of arrow keys or 
something similar to a mutator like shift, at least for navigating in a 
particular direction through tabs.

> > If your reason for wanting tabbed windows was
> > keyboard
> > navigation, there's an answer.
> >
> > That is one thing I miss very much on Linux -- I have no easy way to
> > cycle
> > through all the windows in a given application, while ignoring windows
> > in
> > other applications...
> 
> There's a reason I don't use desktop Linux...

FWIW, there's far more than this that I'd miss on the Mac -- or on Windows, 
for that matter. Of the top of my head:

 - Sloppy focus
 - WAY more keyboard shortcuts (check out "pack left" or "grow pack" on KDE -- 
really can't live without them now)
 - Middle-click to paste currently-selected text. In ANY application.
 - Workspaces that work well.
 - Binary package managers for everything. On OS X, I had maybe 10-15 apps 
that didn't autoupdate, so I had to manually check.
 - I can boycott Apple for what they've done with the iPhone.

I could go on, though it'd get progressively sillier (wobbly windows). 
Probably the number one reason is that I will, at some point, be able to add 
that feature I want to my window manager, or write one that supports it. 
(Haven't gotten around to it yet.) On the other hand, Apple are the only ones 
who can implement true sloppy focus on OS X, and they aren't doing it.

I'm sure I could come up with a list about that long for why I envy OS X.