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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 21:00:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: Buttons Buttons Buttons
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <9407142357.AA18435@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9407142146.C11718-0100000@grad>
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Warwick:
]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.
This 'infatuation' is part of the GEM philosophy and it works well. As I
said before, we are not here to rewrite the OS. Making extentions is
fine, but requiring them is counterproductive. If we didn't top windows,
it wouldn't be GEM.
]>I totally disagree, I wouldn't want Papyrus to work in any other way. It
]>doesn't violate anything, this is the way the desktop has behave for the
]>last 5 years.
]
]This existed as an undocumented `feature' for a long time. Do people
]seriously USE this? How does it correlate to real world semantics?
I found out about it early on, but I never use it.