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From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Mwm question
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Date: 18 May 91 00:01:48 GMT
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Several people have noted that my response to the question about
Mwm's placement of icons was not terribly substantive and rather
rude in tone.  My apologies, it certainly would have been better
sent via mail, or not at all.  I would like to clarify however that
I wasn't just being flip when I suggested that one of the reasons
mwm (and Motif) are difficult is because they offer so many options.
I consider that to be both an advantage and disadvantage.  GUIs 
like Open Look considerably limit your options, but the lack of
choices does make things easier.

Back to the question at hand though.  After playing with it I'm
not entirely sure what algorithm Mwm *does* use.  If I deiconify
a window, and then create a new window and iconify it, it fills
the space left by the last window (this is Mwm 1.1).  In my mind
that space ought to (and this is what I had thought Mwm did) be
left open so long as a window corresponding to it exists.  In 
other words each window should have an icon position that is
remembered and not disturbed unless the user explicitly moves
things around.  Thoughts?

					-kee