[319] in Zephyr_Comments
Re: accidentally killing zephyrgrams
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (janson@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jun 23 13:36:11 1989
From: <janson@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: athena-ws@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 22 Jun 89 17:05:14 -0400.
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 13:35:40 EDT
the behavior which you mention seems more a symptom of the uncontrolled
appearance of the new z-gram than of the user's action, thus i'm not
convinced that making it resistant is really the right direction.
this may be a comment out of the dark ages, but what are these things
doing popping up in manners beyond the user's control anyway? (just thought i'd
wonder...)
if that's the right way for them to behave - for whatever resason -
then the least they should do is know enough to stay out of each
other's way. that is:
each z-gram ought to have three regions 1) identifying title,
2) a close region, and 3) the text body.
any z-gram which wants to impose itself on the screen should
make sure that it will neither obscure the title of any other nor place
it's close region over that of any other.
...
james.
