[2827] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Reverse stacking zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dryfoo@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jul 17 12:24:53 2001
From: dryfoo@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <200107171624.MAA15351@art-farmer.mit.edu>
To: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>, beland@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU,
release-team@MIT.EDU, aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:12:42 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:24:51 -0400
The big problem with New Windows On Top is accidental click-away. You
go to click away a zgram and just as you click, a new one pops up that
you barely had time to even see before it's gone.
I switched to New Windows on Bottom by adding
zwgc*reverseStack: true
to my .Xresources file years ago. I think it wouldn't be bad to reverse
the default, as long as experienced users who liked it the old way could
easily get it back by adding a single line to .Xresources.
-- Gary L. Dryfoos, <dryfoo@mit.edu>
Consultant, I/S Training & Publications
N42-240, 617.253-0184
} Tell me why new users would prefer newer windows on the bottom?
}
} S.
}
} At 11:36 AM -0400 7/17/2001, andrew m. boardman wrote:
} >>It seems to me that if you have a large pile of zephyrs on your
} >>screen, chances are that they got there because you are "chatting".
} >
} >I use zwgc at times, and I often have large piles of zephyrs on my
} >screen. The nature of most of the classes that I subscribe to is that I
} >might like to go back and read the messages I've been ignoring, but that
} >what's most important is what just arrived. The current default
} >behaviour makes my happy. I suspect many zwgc users have similar modes
} >of usage.
} >
} >On the other hand, one of the basic ideas with AUI has been to make
} >things easier for naive users (who presumably would like the newer
} >windows on the bottom of the stack), as presumably a power user who likes
} >things otherwise can fix it themselves. I'm still not hugely comfortable
} >with this, though, but I think that's the core argument for changing the
} >zwgc defaults (as well as a lot of other things).
}
