Compiz, Beryl, eyecandy vs. productivity. My approach to quantify interfaces
Now Compiz, Beryl is all over the place and there are massive discussions about it. But I have a few doubts about it.
First of all, how do we benchmark an interface, especially its efficiency. I would like to propose a few speculations that could hopefully evolve into some sort of quantifying standards of a desktop interface.
In an interface, I think there are two important elements. The capacity of active working area and the convenience to approach something else useful.
More specifically. First, we could have a factor a = number of normal size characters contained times area per character (font size) / the area of the whole screen. In my opinion, the larger the working area, the better because ideally, the whole screen is usable and should be utilized for current purpose. So the larger the better. Suppose this percentage is a (active window percentage or AWP).
Second, we should see how fast we can switch to another task.
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