On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Patrick Rogan wrote:
> Add a flag to the Windowshade function to enable this: When the mouse
> rolls over a windowshaded titlebar, the window temporarily unshades,
> then reshades when the mouse rolls off the window again. By rolling
> over the titlebar, you suddenly have access to the whole window until
> you're done, then just leave the window. Some sort of feedback needs to
> be determined for unshading the window while it's in it's temporary
> "preview" mode. Maybe flash the window's border, or something.
I sorta like this, but it would also be a good idea to add an UnShadeTime
so that it waits a few seconds before unshading (say 1ms?), otherwise
people whom veer their mouse around all the time will have unnecessary
unshadings...
> This would make fvwm2's windowshade more functional than anyone else's!
I don't think this should be the goal... to just be more functional... it
should be functional period.
> Adding this to the iconify'ed windows could also be useful. When they
> plop-up in to "preview" mode, they appear wherever the icon was. When
> you uniconify the window (say by clicking on the iconify button again in
> the titlebar), it pops back to it's uniconified position.
>
> Just don't turn these features on by default, or the Novice user could
> go crazy :)
I totally agree, I think these features will never be useful for me,
however they sound like good ideas :)
-peace
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Received on Wed Aug 12 1998 - 11:08:56 BST