Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!NTA-VAX.ARPA!H_Eidnes%vax.runit.unit.uninett From: H_Eidnes%vax.runit.unit.uninett@NTA-VAX.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Exotic Interface Query Message-ID: <2071:H_Eidnes@vax.runit.unit.uninett> Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 03:38:32 EST Article-I.D.: vax.2071:H_Eidnes Posted: Fri Apr 10 03:38:32 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 15:03:48 EST References: <8704091716.AA13563@brillig.umd.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 23 Since noone has brought up this particular example, I thought I would mention it: Quite a while ago we had an operating system called Accent (or Spice) running on some of our (now sold) Perq-1s. What I'd like to mention about this system, was that its window manager both had a keyboard interface in addition to the mouse interface. With the keyboard it was possible to (de)iconify, select windows for keyboard input, move windows from top/bottom etc. Resizing and moving of the windows was not supported, but I'd guess the main reason was that the Perq had no cursor keys. If someone would care for a more detailed description, I would be happy to dig it out from the documentation (we still keep it around). I remember that the keyboard bindings for the window-manager functions were "natural" and easy to remember, and I preferred the keyboard interface to the mouse interface (the bindings to mouse keys are harder to remember than ordinary keyboard keys). ------- E-Mail: H}vard Eidnes (or TeXish: H\aa vard Eidnes) Division of Computer Science, Norwegian Institute of Technology