On 15 Mar 2004 at 14:43, Darcy James Argue wrote:

> One minor annoyance in Mac Finale is that when opening multiple 
> documents, the windows are tiled (i.e., the window position is offset
> down and to the right) rather than stacked directly on top of each
> other.

Aren't you mis-using terminology? At least on Windows, TILED means 
you take the parent window and divide up into "tiles" and the child 
windows are laid out. If you had four open windows, you'd get windows 
two across and two down.

What you seem to be calling TILED is called CASCADE in Windows.

I hardly ever run any application in anything but maximized view, and 
never find CASCADE useful. Tabs takes care of what CASCADE was 
designed to do, as you never lose access to the control that lets you 
bring a particular window to the foreground, as you often do with 
cascaded windows, where only part of the title bar is visible.

What I wish some application somewhere would implement is the ability 
to pick which windows you want tiled and which ones you want it to 
ignore when you do the tiling.

My understanding of Expose is that it gives you much of this at the 
OS level, so you can easily gain access to all your open windows, 
since the layout of the windows is something that's managed on-the-
fly, not permanently stored.

And, in the end, you seem to be asking to get rid of CASCADING 
windows. I'd agree they serve no purpose whatsoever, and a tab 
interface would make them completely obsolete.

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David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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