Re: Look & feel, future plans

[Chris B . Vetter]

On Wed, 08 May 2002 11:16:58 -0400
Tim Harrison <tim@linuxstep.org> wrote:
> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> >> Having more than one application open at the time clutters the screen, 
> >> as the menu's overlaps eachother,
> > Only if you don't have a properly working window-manager ... when one 
> > application is
> > active all the menus of other applications are hidden, so they never 
> > block each other.
> I don't think this is entirely accurate, from my point of view and 
> experiences thus far.
> I've used GNUstep on a few different window managers, and some 
> applications, no matter the window manager, will continue to leave their 
> menu in place, while another application's menu draws over top.  Maybe 
> all the window managers I've used don't behave "properly" (which is a 
> relative term -- what is the proper behaviour that you'd expect in this 
> circumstance?), but the fact remains that it happens, and it's a pain in 
> the gluteus.

True. I like to check out and play around with various (especially if
they are "new") window managers and saw that behaviour on _all_ so far
- even on Window Maker, which, as probably everyone will agree, at this
point in time is the one 'supporting' GNUstep best.

-- 
Chris