[openbeos] Re: inconsistency?
- From: Adi Oanca <e2joseph@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:05:13 +0300
[Please do not forget what this thread is about. Thanks.]
Jonas,
Jonas Sundström wrote:
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.
Would you have preferred to have them minimized/closed one by one? I
think floating windows' behavior(and look) is very inspired - they
appear only when needed - no screen space is lost when not needed anymore.
[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.
Could you tell me what was/is better? Who knows, maybe they're right...
I'm absolutely not advocating an MDI interface, or
some cramped visual studio-like widget frenzy.
MDI is not so bad, IMHO. Apparently many people think it's crap.
Adi.
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