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diff --git a/x11-wm/ion-3/pkg-descr b/x11-wm/ion-3/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index 20d61b9ef91b..000000000000 --- a/x11-wm/ion-3/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -Ion (based on PWM) is a new kind of window manager that brings a -text-editorish, keyboard friendly user interface to window management. - -Modern GUIs are unusable. Overlapping windows are hard to manage, especially -from the keyboard, and the user often ends up in a jungle. Not to mention the -application programs, which are even worse. Mouse-based search-and-click -interfaces are slow - keyboard is fast having learnt the commands. Ion (the -last three letters of vision =-) was written as an example and an experiment of -something presumably better (just the window manager, though). - -Ion simply divides the screen into frames that take the whole screen. Big -displays have so much space that this is convenient and smaller displays -couldn't show more than one window at a time anyway. The frames can be split -and growing the size of one will shrink others. Alike in PWM, clients can be -moved between frames and multiple clients can be attached to one frame. - -With Ion you will hardly ever have to touch the mouse again for navigation -between windows and the windows are always in order. - -WWW: http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ |