IMHO disclaimer Sean 'Shaleh' Perry declaimed: > On 16-Apr-2002 Es Bee Ex wrote: > > As far as the slit is concerned, if apps will eventually be movable > > within it, how about having that the moving be accomplished with a > > menu? On the slit border around an app, the menu items "Move Up" and > > "Move Down" (and "Move Left" and "Move Right" for the other orientation) > > can be used to move that item's position. This seems a lot simpler to > > me, and not any less intuitive, than "dragging" the apps with the mouse > > cursor(I think that is what was proposed). Someone tell me I'm wrong. > > > > hmm, not opposed to this idea, not sold on it either. > Since Alt-dragging is the standard for repositioning windows (especially windows without borders), this seems like the intuitive means to move windowlets (or whatever the heck they're called) in the slit.
When I didn't know that you couldn't move them, that was the first thing I tried. > > While we are here, why should the slit be renamed and what would the new > > name be? :) > > > > Because the name is not intuitive for native English speakers and down right > mysterious for people who learned English as there second (or more) language. > > Dock and Wharf used obvious metaphors if you know what the words mean. > > I have yet to come up with a better name. Frankly calling it the Dock seems > reasonable. Blackbox owes a lot to Window Maker anyways. Dock is cool. Wharf sounds like a Klingon. When Sean posed the idea, I immediately thought of 'box', but that's probably too generic. Paul -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
