Hackers' screen shots

Re:Hackers' screen shots by abstractbill on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @01:29PM (#74726)

Heh. I think it's funny that the trend in modern IDEs is for your code to get squished into a smaller and smaller box in the middle, surrounded by a ton of random crap. It's the exact opposite to the environment I strive for.

(also, "Solution Explorer"? That was the best name they could come up with?)

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Re:Hackers' screen shots by akkartik on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @02:00PM (#74741)

To be fair, he seems to have enough space for code. horizontally at least. Monitors today have plenty of space for random crap. But the bottleneck isn't real estate anymore, it's focus.

What we need is for the other windows to gradually fade out when focus is in this one for a while. One of the video plugins/sites on tv-links had this feature - as you watched a show for a while the rest of the screen would gradually fade out.

Or we could go with two vertical panes: http://akkartik.name/desktop.html :)

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Re:Hackers' screen shots by Zak on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @02:07PM (#74744)

Compiz has an option to do exactly that. It's called ADD Helper. Unfortunately, XGL doesn't perform very well on my laptop.

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Re:Hackers' screen shots by tyler on Thursday November 01, 2007 @01:12AM (#74948)

your font makes me want to stab my eyes out... otherwise, nice. :)

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Re:Hackers' screen shots by akkartik on Thursday November 01, 2007 @04:26PM (#75180)

Response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=74768

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Re:Hackers' screen shots by rksprst on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @07:41PM (#74876)

Yes, it's called "Solution Explorer" because when you use Team Foundation Server you open up solutions. So "Solution Explorer" is very appropriate.

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Re:Hackers' screen shots by SwellJoe on Friday August 08, 2008 @01:27AM (#270307)

Are you speaking English? It looks that way, but I can't parse "you open up solutions". Solutions of/to what? And how does one "open" a solution? I'm also not sure what a "Team Foundation Server" is. I know all of the words separately, but put them together, and they no longer have any meaning for me. I think I missed a trend or a meme or a memo or a brochure or something.

I'm not intending to be a smartass, I really just have no idea what you just said, and looking at the screenshot doesn't really clarify. "Solution Explorer" looks like a file browser, to me.

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Re:Hackers' screen shots by statictype on Friday August 08, 2008 @09:39AM (#270508)

In Visual Studio parlance, a 'solution' is a set of projects that logically belong together. For example, in a web site, your actual web app may be one project. A back-end scheduling task may be another, etc..

All of these together form a 'solution'. So, in that sense, the term 'Solution Explorer' kinda makes sense if you squint right. Whether or not the word 'solution' is appropriate at all is a different issue entirely...

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Re:Hackers' screen shots by SwellJoe on Friday August 08, 2008 @02:40PM (#270875)

Ah, OK. So, a "solution" is made up of many projects, which is made up of many files? It sounds very enterprise-y. I'll promise to stay out its way, as long as it stays out of mine.

And I guess I can get by without knowledge of what a Team Foundation Server is or does.

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Re:Hackers' screen shots by cstejerean on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @04:36PM (#74802)

I don't know, in my 1900x1200 window I have quite a lot of room for things besides the code on the side, like a REPL window, etc.

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