[1649] in testers
RE: Zephyrgrams should appear 23 pixels lower.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 31 11:49:43 1991
From: vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 91 11:49:41 -0400
To: wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
> If it would not be too hard, the default position of newly appearing
> Zephyrgrams should be 0,23 instead of 0,0.
>
> It is very inconvenient to have my mouse drift into the Dash menubar,
> obscure my big stack of Zgrams but not be able to lower the menubar or
> to raise all the Zgrams as a group.
>
> We might consider teacing the menubar how to get LOWERED too.
>
> -wdc
I had proposed at the 7.3 release meetings *not* to move the default
positioning of zephyrgrams, even though they obscure the dash menubar,
for the following reasons:
- many users find it convenient to just "throw" the mouse up to the
corner of the screen and click to get rid of zgrams. If we move them,
they need to aim better.
- the menubar can be lowered, if it is accidentally raised. Select
"Lower menu bar" under the "Dash" menu (the left-most menu). This
feature was added long ago when it was discovered that mwm users could
not raise other windows above the dash menubar (I'm not sure whether
that's a bug or not, but that's a different story).
- dash can be configured *not* to auto-raise itself when you simply
enter it, by including "Dash*menuBar.autoRaise: false" in your
.Xresources or in your .dashrc. With autoRaise off, you must click the
mouse somewhere in the menubar to raise it. I personally prefer this
action, but I wonder whether it should be the default or not. If people
think it should, it is easily changed.
- zgrams are transient windows, and as such their placement on the
screen are not as important as less transient windows like xterm and
emacs.
Perhaps this issue should be raised at the fall readiness meeting this
afternoon?
-C.
