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Metisse is not a 3D desktop!

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Olivier Chapuis,

Nicolas RousselAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '05: Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 13 - 22

https://doi.org/10.1145/1095034.1095038

Published: 23 October 2005 Publication History

Abstract

Twenty years after the general adoption of overlapping windows and the desktop metaphor, modern window systems differ mainly in minor details such as window decorations or mouse and keyboard bindings. While a number of innovative window management techniques have been proposed, few of them have been evaluated and fewer have made their way into real systems. We believe that one reason for this is that most of the proposed techniques have been designed using a low fidelity approach and were never made properly available. In this paper, we present Metisse, a fully functional window system specifically created to facilitate the design, the implementation and the evaluation of innovative window management techniques. We describe the architecture of the system, some of its implementation details and present several examples that illustrate its potential.

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Metisse is not a 3D desktop!
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Window managers

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DOI:10.1145/1095034

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