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Niki Tonsky

Don’t you find it strange that in real world window is a transparent hole in an otherwise opaque wall, but in computers windows are opaque rectangles themselves?

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PointlessOne :loading:

@nikitonsky What if computer windows are actually holes to other dimensions where individual apps live?

ldvsoft

@nikitonsky hm. Pick a window that renders itself as it is a window to the unknown, and you have to move it around.

Can't be done on Wayland, but who cares.

James Conroy-Finn

@nikitonsky our digital metaphors are a bit all over the place.

Windows from my childhood had borders and wrapped an application. Within each window was something one would look at.

Modern UI has flattened things, stretching the window metaphor beyond its limit, much like the old floppy disk meaning “save”.

Григорий Клюшников

Windows 7/vista ones were actually made out of glass

Zaͩnͦsͤt̀́rͤa̅̆̈

@nikitonsky True, but windows provide more a view to the outside world then in the early days…

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