[828] in Athena User Interface
Re: Reverse stacking zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Tue Jul 17 12:12:44 2001
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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:12:42 -0400
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>, beland@mit.edu
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ghudson@mit.edu, release-team@mit.edu, aui@mit.edu
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).
