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Archive for December 6th, 2008

Saturday, 6 December 2008, 12:21 am

I was trying to innovate on the Linux Desktop today, while hacking on the workspace-switching code for GNOME Shell. I’d written some nice javascript code to make workspaces slide on and off the screen as you added/removed them:

GNOME Shell workspace manipulation
(click for ogg. Yes, the bit at the end is a bug.)

But then after looking at it a little more, I realized the idea was more than 30 years old.

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