The Occasional Occurence

So an article about user interfaces on Coding Horror prompted me to say a short piece about Ion*.

When doing serious work on the computer, I always find myself tiling my windows. Overlapping windows are so annoying. And tiling them in an organized manner is even more annoying.

From the article:

Manipulating windows is pure excise-- extra work that stands between the user and completing their task. The more windows you have to deal with, the less work you get done, and the more time you spend sizing them, moving them, bringing them to the top, and dragging them around so they aren't overlapping.

Enter Ion.

It tiles them for you. And lets you move around from window-to-window using the keyboard.

Sure, it doesn't have wobbly windows or pretty wallpaper. But if you need some more visual or tactile feedback while computing, I suggest getting up and taking a short walk - not shaking a window around on your screen or gazing at your hipster wallpaper.

cw

* Sorry, Linux only. Try Ubuntu.