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Subject: Re: Buttons Buttons Buttons
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 09:28:55 +1000
From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
Precedence: bulk
Ofir Gal wrote:
>
>2. Holding the right button allows clicking in background windows with the
> left button, very useful and also the standard behaviour. Works very
> well in the desktop and Papyrus is another example where you can move
> the cursor around and even select text while in the font selector.
This is an incredible waste of a button. It also violates the principle
of not requiring the user to hold down multiple buttons to perform an
action.
>3. Allow the right button to be used on background windows without topping
> them. I personally find this very useful and implemented it in my
> toolkit as a user option. It is also used in Datalite and Ease where
> you can move/copy/drag files without having to top windows.
Totally confusing. All you need to do is allow the user to use the window
title, or any unused area of the window to top the window. In an extreme
case, also allow a meta key, such as Alt-Ctrl to make the left button top
the window.
I have my WINCOLOURS set up so that the top window is very little different
to untopped windows (just the title text changes colour). This infatuation
GEM has with topping windows is something we should be getting away from,
not setting in stone standards.
If you use MultiTOS, you'll soon become tired of topping windows if you
move back and forth between applications, and if you have a large enough
screen to have multiple non-overlapping application windows.
The sad thing is that many Atari users currently use exactly this.
That's why so many programs only run is certain ST resolutions. But
unless these standards are only intended for single tasking Atari ST's
running in ST resolutions, then we need to think a little more outside
the realms of our own experience.
--
Warwick