elflord_at_pegasus.rutgers.edu said:
> In practice, you can come pretty close to attaining this kind of
> effect by using a keybinding for the 'lower' and 'raise' functions.
I guess so. For that matter, I could bind a key out of the large number of
spare keys I've got on the keyboard such that pressing the key would select
the window.
As a user interface feature, though, I'd still maintain that Windows95's
taskbar hiding is pretty neat.
In terms of a more general mechanism, how about allowing any window to have an
alternative dormant representation (which would normally have StaysOnTop, and
would ordinarily be on the edge of the screen). When the pointer moves over
such a dormant window, the active window reappears, and when the pointer is
moved away, then after a decent interval, the window is unmapped and the
dormant window reappears. So the dormant window is a placeholder, with no
buttons or anything (since it'll disappear as soon as you move the pointer
over it, so you can't interact with it).
Don't know how this dormant window ought to be specified: width, length,
colour etc., ought to be configurable. Some people might want more (how about
a version of Shaded windows done in this way?).
Windows95 allows people to drag the taskbar from one edge to another, but that
seems unnecessary glitz. Something like these dormant windows would be really
handy, I think.
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Received on Wed Dec 03 1997 - 05:29:47 GMT