[1268] in Athena Bugs
Re: uwm/X11 bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 28 13:16:32 1988
From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 88 13:15:47 EDT
To: <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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> I'm not convinced that relative motion is the solution to this
> problem, since some people might, in fact, want to have "absolute"
> motion the way it is now.
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> Why don't we use a cursor whose hotspot is in the upper left corner of
> the cursor when someone tries to do an operation that requires that
> the hotspot be able to touch the upper or left corners of the screen?
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> jik
>
You can't simply use the upper-left corner... what happens at the lower right
corner once you make this change? Answer: it is worse than before. Also,
most people consider the hot spot of the cursor to be the center... don't
change the world from underneath everyone.
The solution as pointed out by Ralph and John is to use relative resizes, and
this is how it was done under X10. Perhaps a bad thing to happen was that we
changed the default from relative to absolute, but that is already history.
-Richard
PS: This discussion should not be continued in "bugs". It belongs elsewhere,
such as "athena-ws".
