The message 200504090858.05163.gt@pobox.com from Graham gt@pobox.com contains these words:
On Friday 08 April 2005 22:15, Anthony Anson wrote:
For activity grouping
Not acquainted with this term.
Perhaps I just made it up. I mean grouping together a collection of things you need at the same time, for performing a given work (or other) activity, and ignoring everything else currently running. An analogy: my house has a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and several bedrooms. If it were an MS Windows house it would have to be one large room with a pull-down bed, foldaway kitchen and a bath that rises out of the floor. A bit like living in a motor home or caravan; lots of faffing about every morning and evening changing modes.
I suppose it's all down to how you arrange your time on the box. I try to limit myself to one task at a time, and usually succeed.
Two contain browser windows, each with several tabs;
Sorry - tabs? I have two browser icons on the taskbar, and several more which can be conjured from directories if needed.
Do you not run a tabbed browser? I thought only Internet Exploder failed to offer this essential feature.
No idea. What's a 'tabbed' browser? I run Firefox, and have Opera as a backup, Firebird is still there, Mozilla on the other box, and IE is only on any of the HDs because it's bundled with the OS.
Even running at 1600x1200, putting all this lot on one desktop is a major nightmare (I know - my previous employer was a Windows shop), requiring much guesswork as to which abbreviated taskbar icon is the one I want, when all of them show just an icon and the first few letters of the program name.
I'd forget which one each was on...
You can rename desktop tabs, just as you can shell tabs. A six-letter acronym is more than enough to identify which is which.
I can't imagine wanting to have several different functions going on in my house at the same time. Perhaps this comes of having a small cottage and a fairly small (by modern standards) box.
Anyway, I don't need labels on the doors to remember which room of my house is which.
Not unless you rearrange it every time you go in, of course.