Re: Mac OS X UI (cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #581 - 19 msgs)
Re: Mac OS X UI (cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #581 - 19 msgs)
- Subject: Re: Mac OS X UI (cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #581 - 19 msgs)
- From: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:30:07 +0200
On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 10:29 , Ondra Cada wrote:
(i) bring back tearoff menus
just as it was possible in NeXTStep
(ii) make windows resizable by all edges
I'd personally vote for the Mac OS X Server 1.x way
(iii) resurrect the bring foreground / send to background functionality
The original NeXTStep way
(iv) bring back the visual distinction between main and active window
(v) show in panels which application they belong to
just like it was in NeXTStep
I see some kind of structure behind those. Maybe you should just install
NeXTSTEP?
Note that I actually like some of those, like (i) and (v) [which is a
known bug], but your mail lacks some NEW ideas.
Additionally, I've been a Mac OS-user for about 10 years now and I don't
know the difference between the main an the active window, I actually
think they MUST be the same every time.
(viii) correct the mouse wheel behaviour
(What baffles me is that is worked all right in Public Beta. Is it
possible
that you consider the current behaviour to be the proper one? If so, I
would
advocate for making that optionable.)
This has been fixed in 10.0.4. I'd rather complain about the fact that
most Carbon apps don't care about the wheel, but that's only partly Apple'
s fault (they invented the API that requires programmers to implement the
wheel themselves).
andy
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