[UI] Maximizing and Restoring Windows with doubleClick: event

[Gary Chambers]

Perhaps, since there is much perosnal choice on the feel front it would be
better to have the options as individual preferences instead... the ultimate
mix-'n'-match.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Hans-Martin
> Mosner
> Sent: 14 October 2007 8:23 PM
> To: Squeak's User Interface
> Subject: Re: [UI] Maximizing and Restoring Windows with doubleClick:
> event
>
>
> Gary Chambers schrieb:
> > After incorporating the "double-click-title-bar" thing I was
> wondering if
> > these kind of events/actions should be themed too...
> >
> > Easy enough to do (think, a particular theme might "shade" the window
> > instead, or minimize, or whatever.
> >
> > In generally it would mean that the feel could be themed along with the
> > look. Does anyone think that the "feel" part should be broken out for a
> > mix-and-match approach, or would that be too confusing?
> It should definitely be broken out. That would allow us to have feels
> which are consistent with user's expectations on their native platforms,
> while still being able to switch between different looks. For example,
> standard keyboard binding conventions vary between the Windows world
> (where ctrl- is often used) and the Mac world (where the default command
> key is the apple or clover key which maps to the Alt key on PC keyboards).
> With every major release of their operating systems Microsoft and Apple
> do essentially the same: Looks may be changed radically or subtly, but
> feel is much more stable and evolves in smaller steps. Apparently people
> can more easily adjust to new looks than to new interface behaviors.
> Squeak should recognize this observation and provide users with their
> expected behaviors where possible.
>
> Other possible feel-dependent behaviors could be:
> - text and list selection (Windows vs Rest-of-World)
> - mouse button bindings (including the paste via middle mouse button
> found in X)
> - pop-up menu behavior (I kinda liked the old ST-80 pop up menus with
> their selection memory - I'm probably the only one who would
> admit that...)
> - keyboard focus behavior is probably orthogonal to other feel elements,
> but belongs into this category, too.
>
> It might be helpful to view a "theme" as a composition of look and feel
> elements. That way, we could have predefined "tinymellow", "fruit" and
> "kobold" themes (to avoid trademark infringements :-) ) and user-defined
> combinations of looks and feels (for example, a secret GNU admirer in a
> microsoft workplace might choose a "kobold" look with the "tinymellow"
> feel.)
>
> Cheers,
> Hans-Martin
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