Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bischeops!nick From: nick@bischeops.UUCP (Nick Bender) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mac OS 7.0 to use point-and-click Summary: Oh please.... Keywords: point-and-click, point-to-focus Message-ID: <403@bischeops.UUCP> Date: 7 Jun 90 02:58:15 GMT References: <5635@helios.TAMU.EDU> Lines: 26 In article , chari@math.utexas.edu (Christopher M. Whatley) writes: > daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity) writes: > > >Now Apple has announced that version 7.0 of the Mac operating system, due > >out later this year, will switch to point-and-click to focus. > > >So Steve is still helping design Apples! :-) > > That's how Macs have always been. The other way is stupid. Who needs > to type in a window that you can't see? > Enough already. Its a classic trade-off as far as I'm concerned. Having started on Suns got used to point-to-focus. Then I got stuck using UIS (that truly scary window systems on the Microvax before DECwindows) which is click-to-type. Then I started using X in point-to-type mode (again). Now I'm happily hacking NeXT (click-to-type), and an HP under X11R4 with twm (in point-to-type mode). Which way is better? Neither. Which is stupid? Neither. Why would anyone want to type in a window they can't see? Because its behind a big picture and they can see the one line they are typing. Besides, someone posted a neat window server hack which allows me to lower the focus window with command-downArrow on NeXT, and twm allows me to lock focus on a window. I get what I want either way. Let's talk about something interesting now. Nick nick%bischeops@uunet.uu.net