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From: weiser.pa@XEROX.COM
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Subject: Re: Tiling window managers (was RTL)
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Date: 25 May 88 16:33:07 GMT
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There was a paper presented at the CHI '86 conference (full reference below)
which offered empirical data that tiled windows were better in may cases,
especially for beginning users.  For experts the results were not so clear, and
perhaps overlapping was even better there.

I used a tiled window system everyday, in the Cedar programming environment, and
it has its good points and its bad points.  I think overall I prefer
overlapping--but then I'm more-or-less an expert.

-mark


S.A. Bly, J.K. Rosenberg, "A comparison of tiled and overlapping windows", Human
Factors in Computing Systems  CHI'86 Conference Proceedings.  Special Issue of
the SIGCHI Bulletin, published the Association for Computing Machinery.  April
13-17, 1986, pp. 101-106.