Sometime on Aug 2, Mayuresh A Kathe assembled some asciibets to say:
Workspace - Literally what it means, a Work Space Not necessarily having any objects to manipulate Usually having some tools to start doing something Viewport - A view into a piece of data stored on your system Could be a file viewer, or a file system viewer Also, could be a view onto network services like, network neighbourhood, www browser... Desktop - The area of the screen (usually) visible to you for starting work. Also, a view into the Workspace.
I want to know the difference between these three with relation to window managers. In sawfish, one can have multiple workspaces, and multiple viewports in each workspace. I don't know yet where the desktop fits in there, but it does.
What I really want to know is, if I want 6 areas to work in, should I choose 6 workspaces with one viewport each, or one workspace with six viewports, or some combination?
Philip