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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
-