Posted by dorayme on 07/15/06 22:06

In article <45b8f$44b912a9$40cba7be$5685@NAXS.COM>,
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:

> > Its a thing they borrowed from the Win world in a way... When you
> > hover on the red, a "x" appears in it and this circle is for
> > quitting. The middle orange, a "-" appears and it is for
> > minimising (it goes into the altogether too cute dock. How I hate
> > it still!) and the green gets a "+" and this expands the window
> > to fit the contents - no not beyond the edge of the screen, Macs
> > are very clever but not magical... :)
> >
>
> Wow that was intuitive! ;-)

Particularly for right handed earthings (most of you are, I
understand?): on the left top.

On pre X there were 2 top right boxes, one for collapsing the
window into its title bar, the other for resizing, the symbols
_were_ intuitively meaningful:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/droovies/pics/preMacWindowControls.
png

Notice also the bottom right full-control mouse resize box. I
mention because it is infinitely superior to the Win equivalent
which is either no box and/or an uncertain fiddley magical
fishing trip with the mouse to bring up the right sort of
cursor.... which now and again actually engages!

--
dorayme

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