David Webber's Honor Harrison books are exelent. The first 3 or 4 are a little repetitive, but after that the series comes into it's own and is quite enjoyable. For a more intense read, there is always Tad William's Otherland series, although the books are very, very long, he keeps the pace moving nicely and, because the majority of the novels are set in virtual reality, there is plenty of fantasy like action as well as strong sci-fi underpinnings
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Many of you seem to be missing the point here. This seems to have been written as a fun project, like one we all have wanted to do. Go out there, try it, and then forget about it.
> I know with gnome + enlightenment, you can > alt+tab between windows (or any other key > combination you choose).
True, but...
>There doesn't seem to be much sense to the order >in which the windows cycle. I find it's OK if >you're just tabbing between two windows, but try >it with three. Sometimes I have to hit alt-tab >seven or eight times to get to the window I >want: it just sits there cycling between the >other two! It's kinda funny but kinda >frustrating too.
I have found the same problem with gnome + e, and I beleive the problem lies in the timing routines. Specificaly, the TABs in ALT-TAB have to be closer together that in M$ windoze. It seems to me that hitting ALT-TAB--TAB will cycle back and forth between windows while ALT-TABTAB (notice the subtle difference?) will cycle properly. This being said, having a tasks panel pop up when you ALT-TAB would make this all much nicer ( and is one of the 3 things good about MS )
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David Webber's Honor Harrison books are exelent. The first 3 or 4 are a little repetitive, but after that the series comes into it's own and is quite enjoyable. For a more intense read, there is always Tad William's Otherland series, although the books are very, very long, he keeps the pace moving nicely and, because the majority of the novels are set in virtual reality, there is plenty of fantasy like action as well as strong sci-fi underpinnings
And remember, Linus wrote Linux for fun also!
> I know with gnome + enlightenment, you can
> alt+tab between windows (or any other key
> combination you choose).
True, but...
>There doesn't seem to be much sense to the order
>in which the windows cycle. I find it's OK if
>you're just tabbing between two windows, but try
>it with three. Sometimes I have to hit alt-tab
>seven or eight times to get to the window I
>want: it just sits there cycling between the
>other two! It's kinda funny but kinda
>frustrating too.
I have found the same problem with gnome + e, and I beleive the problem lies in the timing routines. Specificaly, the TABs in ALT-TAB have to be closer together that in M$ windoze. It seems to me that hitting ALT-TAB--TAB will cycle back and forth between windows while ALT-TABTAB (notice the subtle difference?) will cycle properly. This being said, having a tasks panel pop up when you ALT-TAB would make this all much nicer ( and is one of the 3 things good about MS )