Fwd: [Usability] Fold'n'drop

[Frank Huang <fyhuang gmail com>]

Oops.

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From: Frank Huang <fyhuang gmail com>
Date: Jul 21, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Usability] Fold'n'drop
To: Daniel Borgmann <daniel borgmann gmail com>


On 7/21/05, Daniel Borgmann <daniel borgmann gmail com> wrote:
> On 7/21/05, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
> > Well, from the video it looked like you had to be able to hit the side
> > of a window with the mouse before you could fold it back... otherwise I
> > couldn't understand how you could fold back multiple windows at the same
> > time, as part of the video showed.  It's certainly an improvement if
> > that's not the case, though.
>
> Of course you have to see the window which you want to fold away, why
> would you want to put away a window that's not visible? :) The goal is
> to access the windows below it, which are covered at the moment.
>
> Daniel
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I think this would be a great improvement for things like tablet PCs,
which IMHO Linux doesn't seem to have quite as much support for. Sure,
it works, but nothing's made easy/easier for the tablet user.

Cheers!

--
Sincerely, Frank Huang
    "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."


-- 
Sincerely, Frank Huang
    "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."