On May 5, 2007, at 6:01 PM, John Francis wrote: > ... On a Mac there's no equivalent; all the > sub-windows are children of the main desktop. ...
The difference is deeper than that. All window structures on Mac OS are independent of each other. It's up to an application to manage any child-parent hierarchy relationships. The Desktop is a window structure managed by the Finder related to the contents of the Desktop directory subtree in each user account directory tree. It's special in that it is a window larger than the viewable area screen, and it is managed entirely by the Finder's access provided to the user, not directly like other windows. Godfrey ... "oops, did I geek?" ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
