Window Frames Part III

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Jul 31 21:29:04 UTC 2001


>>> Alternatively, I suggest to drop the icon altogether and bring up the menu when you do a right (that's what confuses *me*, those colored buttons) click on the frame (like a context menu in windows).<<<


I agree--within morphic, we already have context menus and halos.  Let's
use those, instead of having menu icons and menu bars.  They're better,
anyway.

While we're at it, let's get rid of resize handles, too.  I have trouble
clicking them when I want, yet I seem to click them all the time when I
don't mean to.  Instead, I'd rather a SystemWindow's panes are real
morphs.  Then, I can resize a SW pane the same way I'd resize any other
morph: blue-click then use the yellow handle.

BTW, on Linux blue-click is right-click, on Windows it is middle-click,
and on Macs it is apple-click.  That's why people say "blue-click"
instead of "middle-click".  Also, many lefty's reverse their mouse
button orders, anyway....


-Lex




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