Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: NoisyReq anomaly
Keywords: vt100 2.8
Message-ID: <4599@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 03:03:14 GMT
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
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For me as a user of umpteen VT100 versions, changing from a requester to
a requester inside a second window (the xfer window) has both good and bad 
points.

GOOD - you don't lose the ability to type into the main window while the
requester hangs around on the screen. Also you can move and resize the window
if you like.

BAD - it is $%#@$% irritating to have a large part of the screen obscured
every time I want to do some sort of file operation; especially doing
something like turning off capture, and having to click a close-gadget of
a window that tells me capture has ended. I move the window around, resize
it, move it to the back, but it always seems like it gets in the way the
next time I change directories, or has to be made bigger to monitor a kermit.

Again on the bad side, you can make it 'hang' by performing a normal action -
clicking a close box - if you do it at the wrong time (for me this was 10
seconds after the first time I booted it).

I'd like to see the interface modified a bit. There should be some way to
say "make the window go away as soon as possible" so it would maybe display
messages for a few seconds then scat. Perhaps a "set window position and size"
option in the config file. And it shouldn't have a close box at times when
the close box is dangerous -- maybe during file transfers it could be made
borderless so as not to get in the way?

John

PS There are problems with the "done" gadget in the requester as well at
certain times.