Re: Other system CDEVs?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) writes...

>Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
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>:     I found it doesn't get along with hierarchical menus (e.g. Kanagroo,
>: TransProg III), even if you attempt to click the mouse. In any case, I
>: would much perfer if you had to click-once and _then_ menus would stay
>: open, rather than them opening automatically. Something closer to the
>: way Windows 95 and MacOS 8 function.
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>Gag. I helped a buddy put OS 8.1 on his box and we didn't waste any time
>downloading and installing Teflon. It's a control panel that turns off those
>annoying sticky menus.

    I find non-sticky menus annoying, you have to continiously hold the
button down while moving through options. This makes dragging the mouse
around more difficult and is tiresome (to the joints in your fingers)
if your scrolling through a long menu list (e.g. hundreds of fonts)
or sitting there thinking about a choice. The worst is hierarchical
menus, holding the button while _while_ navigating multiple pop-out-
to-the-side menus is a real pain and makes it easy to "slip".

>:     Speaking of Windows 95, another CDev/INIT I would like to see
>: written is a taskbar for "minimizing" windows. You could add an 
>: extra button to GS/OS windows (next to the shrink/expand button) 
>: that would close the window and add it to a listing in the lower
>: half of the screen. You'd then just click it to reopen the window.
>: This is something I could see being useful, considering how easily
>: cluttered the small 640x200 desktop can become.
> 
>I use Winflate, which is a control panel that works like Windowshade on
>Macs. It scrunches windows down to just the title bar.

    It's a tad bit on the buggy side, but even so that isn't a
perfect solution as the clutter is still there. I rather they
disappear off the main desktop area completely--moved off to a
task bar below with a listing of closed windows I can click on
to reopen. Can't say I'm fond of the Apple way of doing things
anymore, it is inefficient to me now (I used to think the idea
of a two button mouse was confusing, but now I find it a must
have and a real time saver. Heh, quite often when I'm in GS/OS
I try right-clicking the mouse, it's almost instinct now when
I want to cut/copy/paste, rename or delete). :)

Mitchell 
spec@vax2.concordia.ca