[openbeos] Re: inconsistency?

Adi Oanca <e2joseph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 ...
> > (Except those "palette" windows which hide all the time.
> > Now -those- are annoying.)
> 
>       What do you have with those.

They just don't feel right. They disappear and reappear in a rather 
confusing way when moving between multiple open document windows by 
Right-clicking the window tab of the front-most window. This often 
means some other app's window gets focus, which makes the palettes 
disappear only to reappear when I click the other document window to 
give it focus.  And the result is flicker. 

>  These are a must! don't what them, don't 
> use them!

I don't. And none of the apps I use do.

> [How would it be for your screen be filled with
>  lots of windows needed 
> by only one normal window?]

Honestly, I'm not against floaters/palettes/toolpads in general. I 
don't recall but I'm guessing MacOS (< X ?) has a better palette window 
user experience. After all, Photoshop, etc, did evolve on the Mac.

I'm absolutely not advocating an MDI interface, or
some cramped visual studio-like widget frenzy.

Anyway, I wouldn't mind a multi-window BeShare, 
one for each of the 4 views.

/Jonas.

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