On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Jim Knoble wrote:
> Circa 2001-Jul-25 14:25:43 +0200 dixit Mark Weinem:
>
> : Implementing a close button would be a Regression! Why should we
> : need a *button* if we can right-click on the menu? So with Blackbox
> : the whole menu is the button and I like that.
>
> Ah, but without a handle, a glass door looks like a window. Bad
> design. I'm not necessarily saying i think that the current
> [RightClick] on the titlebar should go away; that's up to Jeff and
> Brad. But the *visual affordance* of the button is fully half of
> what's important: If you don't know there's a door there, what good is
> the door?
This glass door analogy has worn a bit thin. Its not really as applicable
to this situation as you make it out to be. A menu is distinct in its own
right, and the universal way to close any menu is the same at present,
unlike under your proposed system.
> : No need to make Blackbox more looking and behaving like Window Maker
> : ;-)
>
> I catch your sarcasm, but on a serious note, it's not a particularly
> good idea to reject good design simply because of it's apparent source.
So go use windowmaker and leave us with a simple wm. Windowmaker is a
really nice window manager; blackbox draws a lot of ideas from it and the
NeXT interface. But that doesn't mean everything windowmaker does it good
either.
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