10/GUI: Maybe I should get comfortable with sideways titlebars

[MikeLockmoore]

Here's a very interesting animation about a multi-touch GUI proposal that places app windows on a long horizontal strip with sideways titlebars a bit like flwm, but app windows "tiled" side-by-side:
 
 http://10gui.com/video/

I've thought about making a new WM or a variation of flwm that does vertical app-window tiling... but maybe this could work better.  Of course, you need a big touchpad to do the two, three, and four-finger gestures, but at least some types of gestures could be emulated with a traditional mouse movements and mouse keys and/or keyboard keys.
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Mike L.

[perthie]

Interesting. But you would have to reach across the touchpad to get to your keyboard. I wonder how tiring that would become?

[roberts]

Sideways saves space. The new modern way for newer wide screens.
And with flwm smart window placement, you often avoid having to move windows, without resorting to a titling window manager.

[jpeters]

also, it doesn't allow for picking one's nose while computing

[Lee]

also, it doesn't allow for...

One has to learn to use the elbows for -that-. 

(which will be easier than overcoming the inertia of all those gazillions of mouse users)