[haiku] R: Re: Suggestions to change double click on window title behaviour

  • From: "zumikkebe@xxxxxxxxxxx" <zumikkebe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:15:44 +0100 (CET)

>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: johan@xxxxxxxx
>Data: 1-nov-2009 5.06 PM
>A: <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Ogg: [haiku] Re: Suggestions to change double click on window title    
behaviour

>

>Ari, Maxime and Truls:

>If you think double click on title to minimize/hide is good, please 
add some

>reasons why you think it is. If you don't, you're only expressing 
your

>personal taste and not arguing your point.



IMO such an important gesture should be used for a frequent necessity, 
and I think there are more necessities to hide windows than to mazimize 
them, so double click to hide is a "good" design



[...]

>@Ari

>Nobody's talking about double click close :) That would be even worse 
of

>course. On a side note, when I began at university, you could kill

>applications by middle mouse clicking their title. Sure it was very 
useful

>once you adapted to it, but it was still a bad design :)



what do you think about the vulcanian death grip?? I love it



[...]

>@Truls:

>Not everybody has a need or desire to optimize their computing. That 
kind of

>reasoning, if taken to the extreme, could lead to all other GUI 
components

>being removed - because there are keyboard shortcuts and once you know 
them

>the GUI is just a waste of space :) Do you happen to be a big fan of 
Emacs?

>;) I've met plenty of people who do always go to Edit menu and select 
Copy,

>rather than learning Ctrl-c. I don't know exactly why but I guess it's 
that

>they don't think it's worth the bother. Are these people included in 
what

>you perceive as Haiku's target audience?



yes, they're like those who have sex only with external genitals 

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