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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Disappointing first day with 1.0
Message-ID: <1989Oct19.164049.17730@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 89 16:40:49 GMT
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In article <1989Oct19.133324.24625@nueces.cactus.org> chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley) writes:
>What sense is there in having a miniaturize box on the only window of an
>app that can be hidden?

One of the nice things about the NeXT UI is that you don't have to have
a window frontmost to miniaturize or close it.  One of the ironies
of the NeXT UI is that you DO have to bring an app to the front to HIDE
it.  Having a miniaturize button on Terminal is an approximate solution
to this problem for Terminal.

Personally, I'd like to see a way to hide an app that isn't frontmost.
A "Hide" box in the title bar, or a modifier combination used with a
mouse click, either in the title bar or the app's icon, would be nice.
It doesn't make sense to have to bring an app to the front just to
make it disappear.
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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