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From: ericm@ibmpa.UUCP (Eric Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet Another Entry In The 1.4 Wish List...
Keywords: RE: 1.4 Enhancement Wish List
Message-ID: <716@ibmpa.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 01:28:02 GMT
References: <504@morgoth.UUCP> <3453@amiga.UUCP> <505@morgoth.UUCP>
Reply-To: ericm@ibmpa.UUCP (Eric Murray)
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division,  Palo Alto, Ca.
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More 1.4 wish list entries (for Workbench)....

1.	Make it possible to move windows (at least partially) off the screen,
	in any direction. Being able to slide your windows all around makes the
	screen seem much bigger.

2.	Add an 'iconify' gadget to CLI windows. I know there's at least one 
	PD one out there, but it stuffs the resulting icon into RAM:.... 
	I'd rather see it on the Workbench screen.	Double clicking on the
	icon would open the window back up.

3.	Dispense with gadgets completely, and use keyboard qualifiers in 
	combination with mouse button clicks (i.e. to move a window to the
	front, hold the shift key & click the left mouse button on any
	available portion of the window). This is the system used by uwm
	under X. It's completely user configurable via a config file.
	It's easier to just find a corner of the window you want to
	resize or whatever and click on it while holding down a ket, than
	to slide the mouse pointer on to a small (on interlace) gadget.


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