--- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16-Apr-2002 Es Bee Ex wrote: > > As far as the slit is concerned, if apps will eventually be movable > > within it, how about having that the moving be accomplished with a > > menu? On the slit border around an app, the menu items "Move Up" and > > "Move Down" (and "Move Left" and "Move Right" for the other orientation) > > can be used to move that item's position. This seems a lot simpler to > > me, and not any less intuitive, than "dragging" the apps with the mouse > > cursor(I think that is what was proposed). Someone tell me I'm wrong. > > > > hmm, not opposed to this idea, not sold on it either. I'm not a fan of this idea because it'd mean a LOT of clicking just to move the bottom app to the top...
Is'n t it possible to make the apps (directly after all of them is loaded) to read a cfg wich tells them the order they should be in? You couls change the cfg from bbconf or just rewrite it. Is it necessary for people to be able to move the apps while running or is this just a discussion about arranging (not REarranging)? > > While we are here, why should the slit be renamed and what would the new > > name be? :) > > > > Because the name is not intuitive for native English speakers and down right > mysterious for people who learned English as there second (or more) language. > > Dock and Wharf used obvious metaphors if you know what the words mean. > > I have yet to come up with a better name. Frankly calling it the Dock seems > reasonable. Blackbox owes a lot to Window Maker anyways. Dock sounds perfect. 'Docking Bay' was also nice :) As a non native English speaker I have to say that I do not have a problem with the word 'slit', nor any other strange term. I accept the word as the word for the-place-where-you-place-dockapps even though I don't know the 'real' meaning of the word. / Nimbus __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
