Window Management

I've been tinkering with ion and blackbox and afterstep 1.0 and I've come to
a few conclusions about how an iPAQ's desktop should probably operate in
order to be easy to use(*):

    - Conventional draggable, sizable windows are BAD.
        Instead, the way ion does things, although dumb, is usually a fair
approach.
    - Audible feeback within reason (and to the user's tastes) is GOOD.
    - Having dockable apps such as xmms, the clock, fscrib, xvkbd managed by
the window manager such that they steal space from the main app dynamically,
when they are made visible, is GOOD.
    - Being able to hide stuff as much as possible is GOOD.
    - Having help available so that, for example, you can get a table of
fscrib symbols, is GOOD! (But annoying to write...)

    Anyway, I expect that people with have various gripes with the above
statements. They're just a few things I've decided after having used
PalmPilots, Psions and iPAQs. I've found the iPAQ more or less unusable for
anything real because the apps are all designed for a desktop UI. This is
no surprise and certainly not a criticism.
    I've come up with a combination of a window manager layout and an app
launcher/dock layout that might be sweet, based on experience designing a
simple iPAQ user interface as part of my PhD. I can post a mock-up of it if
anyone expresses an interest.

    I'd also be interested to know what stuff other people are using on the
tiny iPAQ display!

    Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall

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(*) Not easy as in for computer-novices, necessarily, just easy to use on a
touchscreen.