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Subject: Uwm extensions, perhaps - resizing/namestripes etc
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Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 07:40:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 07:40:22 1987
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mnetor!yetti!geac!len@seismo.css.gov  (Leonard Vanek) in
<554@geac.UUCP> writes:-

> In article <9884@sri-spam.istc.sri.com> wohler@sri-spam.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
>  writes:
> >
> >>For example, have sensitive areas on borders of
> >>windows that can be used to resize them;
> >
> >  please, no!  not having to go to the namestripe or border is one of
> >  the features that makes x a "faster" system than suntools.
> >
> I second that! I am not familiar with Suntools, but I find Macintosh
> windows hard to use because the Mac requires such precise mouse
> positioning to get at the correct control in the window borders
> or to get at part of the information near the edge of the
> window.

I third that!  I *have* used Suntools, and I find it three
and a half times worse even than Macintoshes - just too
great a precision in mouse positioning is required.

Niall