The Waning of the Overlapping Window Paradigm?

Bingo Foo asks: "The paradigm of movable, overlapping windows on the desktop has been around, and indeed dominant, for a long time. The original motivation for this was to mimic sheets of paper on a desktop. This is a useful metaphor, but may be a bit limiting given the capacity a computer has for automation of the layout and display of "desktop" objects. Lately, I have been pleased to see an increase in 'framing,' 'docking,' 'stacking,' and 'tabbing' being used, starting most conspicuously with frames in the web. More significantly, it has shown up as an application workspace paradigm that improved previously crappy MDI implementations in programs like Visual Studio and KDevelop. In my opinion, the most promising experimental application, even if still immature, is one of the neatest window managers around, ion. Does anyone else see a time when movable, tear-off docking and automated full-time tiling completely take over from the free-floating manually arranged desktops of today?"

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All X11/Linux WM are crap

[dbucher]

Sorry to say that, but IMHO all X11/Linux WM are crap ! KDE and others are based on Windows, Bill Gates was even able to lobotomize imagination of Linux developpers, and other window managers are often either old, either they don't support basic services like drag&drop. Most of them are using virtual screens instead of better and more creative ideas... Well I'm quite dispointed. Even worse, the small standard utilities of KDE are so POOR : kpaint (sorry for the authors) only reminds me of MSPaint, so WHY THE HELL didn't you do something ELSE, better or worse,
but DIFFERENT THAN Windows ?

For now, I'm using Windows and KDE, but I really dislike them both. In 1993 the AmigaOS was really
great to use, logical, PREDICTABLE, and different.

A simple examples, as someone said, the menus
where always at the same place (like on the Mac)
for all programs. And this "Windows Menu", copied
in KDE (why???) is totally unusable, you never know where to click, and you always miss what
you wanted to click on :-(

Well, I'm looking forward for something worthy to
Linux and the Unix communauty ;-))