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From: t-jondu@microsoft.UUCP (Jonathan Dubman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Minor Annoyances
Message-ID: <7189@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 21:38:21 GMT
Reply-To: t-jondu@microsoft.UUCP (Jonathan Dubman)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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OK, I've had a chance to use the cube for about ten hours, and I'm still
impressed.  The first things I notice are details.  There are a few minor
annoyances:

1.  Menus can pop-up partially offscreen.  This is visually unattractive and
    distracting.  Is there any justification for this?
2.  Browser: Great, but why not use traditional scroll bar?  There's no way
    to tell how much what proportion of the directory I'm seeing.  Is there
    any particular reason why up is to the right?  (Or was it to the left?)
3.  Dictionary: Pictures have numbers that don't seem to refer to anything.
    Try looking up "sail" or "violin".  (Great to have on hand while reading
    Nabokov novels.  Makes me want a Digital Brittanica!)
4.  Windows have no window-to-back gadgets ala Intuition on the Amiga.
    (The only machine I've seen that has this very handy feature.)
    Yes, I know about the hide feature, except it seems like a lot of trouble
    for so simple a task- and it doesn't do what I want.  One thing I do
    ALL THE TIME on the Amiga is have about five totally overlapping
    windows that all take up the same region of the screen, and scroll
    between them with the window-to-back gadget.  Maybe a gadget is not the
    best solution, but their oughta be a way.

    Do I have my head in the sand?  Convince me I don't need such a feature.

Jonathan Dubman