-----Original Message----- From: squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Ramon Leon Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 10:39 AM To: john@pierce.name; The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: RE: LookEnhancements enhancement
Hi all,
I've checked in version 45 of LookEnhancements. In this
release window
borders have been put on a diet shedding 1/3 of their
width. I thought
about making it a preference, but I kind of like the
thinner borders
the more I look at them. If there is anyone that really
wants thicker
borders (we are talking 4 pixels vs. the former 6 pixels)
then let me
know. It would be real easy to make a preference, but I kind of
don't like
lots of preferences if no one particularly cares.
Anyways, enjoy.
John
Thank you, love the new thinner look, feels much nicer. As far as the docking window idea goes, I don't know how to do it, else I would submit a change set. I came to squeak for Seaside, morphic has not been on my list of things to learn, and I only get to play in squeak in my free time, which is limited.
You asked, "So the question in mind is "is it natural for windows to know about other windows as if you are laying out tiles on the screen?" or would this feature frustrate users when they are trying to overlap windows slightly?"
I'd say, does anyone "ever" want to overlap a window by 2px? I'd say not really, if they are getting the borders that close together, odds are they're trying to tile them to work with multiple windows. I played with Linux a bit recently and KDE had this as an option, when the window borders got close enough they'd just snap together, but only within a certain range, couple of pixels, or when they got close enough to the edge of the screen, they'd snap to it. I loved it, you'd only notice it when you were trying to tile, and it helped tremendously, I thought it was one the of coolest little features I'd seen and wish Windows did that, wish Squeak did that, be nice to see an autoDockWindows preference.
After playing around with my nVidia drivers, turns out they give XP this feature too, so it's not too uncommon.
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