<story><title>Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users</title><url>http://mauriciogardini.com/post/43348489262/slate-a-mac-os-x-window-manager-for-power-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MaysonL</author><text>Am I the only one who hardly sees any value in window managers? About 99% of the time, I&apos;m wanting only one window visible at a time, with others quickly accessible via cmd-tab and cmd=`.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>Lots of people -- I&apos;m one of them -- find that switching whole windows seems to pop the mental stack.&lt;p&gt;Whereas turning my head left and right does not do so.&lt;p&gt;Most programming requires at least 4 logical views, IMO:&lt;p&gt;1. The code&lt;p&gt;2. The result of the code (web page, test results etc)&lt;p&gt;3. Documentation that supports coding&lt;p&gt;4. A control mechanism (ie, a terminal)&lt;p&gt;No doubt there will be quibbling that some of these are really the same, blah blah. I don&apos;t care, I think 4 is the logical minimum and the physical assignment of those 4 basic information types is a matter for each programmer.</text></comment>
<story><title>Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users</title><url>http://mauriciogardini.com/post/43348489262/slate-a-mac-os-x-window-manager-for-power-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MaysonL</author><text>Am I the only one who hardly sees any value in window managers? About 99% of the time, I&apos;m wanting only one window visible at a time, with others quickly accessible via cmd-tab and cmd=`.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mauriciogardini</author><text>I was discussing this some minutes ago with a friend of mine: if you have a 11&quot; or 13&quot; screen, that&apos;s the reasonable way to go (Unless if you are like me, of course, that feels the need to use Slate in a 13&quot; screen)... But, if you can work with bigger screens, splitting your workspace and making more information available at the same time may be a good thing.</text></comment>