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Re: Idea
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vinny |
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Re: Idea |
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Sat, 6 Jan 2001 16:21:19 +0530 |
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Sciortino <jj_sciortino@yahoo.com>
To: Vinodh D Rajan <vinny@mailandnews.com>; <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: Idea
>
> That beign said, I personally don't care for maximize buttons on *step
> windows. When I was a new NextStep user, I thought they would be handy,
but
> I've come to the conclusion that the way NeXTstep/OpenStep/GStep apps are
> laid out with the separate window and menu (which is _much_ better than
the
> combined window/menu of all the other major interfaces) makes maximized
> windows awkward (IMHO). Part of the system's beauty is that it's designed
for
> monitors > 17", and the windows, menus, and pallettes are all floating
> separately. While maximize would be handy for conventional X, KDE, MOSX,
and
> Gnome apps, (especially on smaller monitors) my opinion is that it would
not
> be such a good thing on *step apps.
Thats fine, but should we be ignoring the <17" folks (like me for ex). I
havent worked
on nextstep and only now have entered gnustep, so I havent seen how windows
and menus are
laid out. I cannot comment on that. Guess I shall try and get a complete
gnustep sys working.
problem is that I seem to be having a horrible bandwidth :-(.
greetings
vinny
- Idea, Dennis Leeuw, 2001/01/04
- Re: Idea, Jason H Clouse, 2001/01/05
- Re: Idea, Vinodh D Rajan, 2001/01/05
- Re: Idea, Jeff Sciortino, 2001/01/05
- Re: Idea,
vinny <=
- RE: Idea, ian . mondragon, 2001/01/05
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Nicola Pero, 2001/01/05
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Sungjin Chun, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), ]d, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Philippe C . D . Robert, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), ]d, 2001/01/06