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Date:03 Feb 2001 at 10:29:42
Subject:Re: Custom screens (was: Re: Can someone look at this code?)

Hello Gabriele,

> Don't you think that this depends on what you use them for? They suck

Perhaps there's some use for them. But I think they're only present to
offer backward compatibility, as kick 1.3 didn't have public screens.

> badly for applications, on the other hand for example if you're coding
> a game (I'm coding a game...) you really don't want some windows to
> pop-up in front of the user [...]

hmm... I'd like to have my reminder program popup messages on the front
most screen, even if this is a game that I'm currently playing. I could
also imagine that I'd like to have 'Lupe' running ontop of the game, to
look closer at some gfx details. Or perhaps Clock, if I need to keep
track of time while playing etc. etc.

Under some circumstances you may want to make your screen custom for
speed reasons, but then you could have it as an option for the user.
Personally I'd often prefer to trade the faster scrolling away for
the ability to open a shell on the screen :-)

Kind regards Allan

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