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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:
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- ]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.
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- 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.
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- ]>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?
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- I found out about it early on, but I never use it.
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