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From: awang@isl.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: GUI interface complaint
Message-ID: <15@isl.stanford.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 90 08:22:42 GMT
Sender: awang@isl.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang)
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I am really mostly happy with the windowing system and workspace manager
on the NeXT except for these two things:

	a minor complaint: In the browser, when I double click on a document
or applicaton in the text columns, it opens up, just as when I double-click
on its icon, either in the browser's single icon compartment or in a 
view-by-icon directory window--This is fine.  What seems a little
inconsistent is when I double-click on the name of a directory--Nothing
happens, other than showing its contents in the column to the right in the
browser.  When I double click on the icon of a directory in the browser,
*then* it opens up a view-by-icon window of its contents.  I think that
double-clicking on both the name of the directory and its icon should 
yield the same result, especially to be consistent with the documents and
applications.

	bigger complaint: There should be a way to get windows to cycle
from top to bottom so that if I have a messy desktop I don't have to go
fishing for a window buried under 50 others.  On the HP 9000's running
X windows clicking on the background causes the windows to cycle from
front to back.  Alternatively, there could be some menu or icon that has a
list of all the windows, so I need only select the one I want directly.

This brings up another point--in the case of lots of menu items, it would
be desirable to have scrolling menus...

-Avery Wang
awang@isl.stanford.edu