On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:09 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > > I remember seeing an equivalent feature in that modern window manager > > called "twm". Only in that it wasn't restricted to the screen edges, > > it was anywhere on the desktop area! > > I remember this feature from my AmigaOS 15 years ago. > > But AmigaOS implemented it better allowing to send key events to > minimized applications: Simply putting mouse pointer over the icon and > entering commands into minimized terminal or press shortcuts for > minimized editor was really cool.
It was, although IIRC there wasn't a great deal of visual feedback, so there was an increased danger of typing somewhere you weren't expecting to type and doing something you didn't want to :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
