[41] in Athena User Interface
Re: sawfish configuration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 17 23:08:36 2000
Message-Id: <200005180308.XAA03422@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 May 2000 21:17:58 EDT."
<200005180117.VAA11391@manatee.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 23:08:31 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> * There should be a title bar. I am undecided on whether I think it
> should be the full width of the window (like mwm, win95) or tabbed
When I showed Susan the AUI prototype, I noticed that she had trouble
clicking on the window titlebars if they were too small (vertically,
in this case). That seems to support title bars occupying the full
width of the window.
> * Typing any non-lock modifier when clicking the "close" button
> should send an X kill signal to the client instead of a delete.
I would pick just one modifier. This is fine as a shortcut, but I
think there should also be a menu option to do this.
> * There should be no window-manager menu in the top left corner of
> the window or anywhere else. They make me feel dirty.
The panel will do fine in lieu of an always-present window-manager
menu.
> * Dragging on the title bar or a side of a window should move it.
> Dragging on any window corner should resize it.
Again, users may have trouble clicking on small areas. However, if
this behavior is consistent with Windows 98 as you imply, then I'll
live with it.
> * The WM should be click-to-focus by default, but be easy to change
> to mouse-focus. Focus-clicks should not be passed through to apps.
Agreed. (Also agreed on unifying focus and raise.)
> * There is no way to iconify, restart, quit, or unmap.
I think the ability to iconify windows into the panel taskbar is
pretty key.
The others are fine, as long as changes made by sawmill-ui can be made
effective without restarting sawfish.
