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Re: GUI Interfaces



On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, csj wrote:


> Take Blackbox (a favorite from the 
> posts I have read). To open a new app you have to click at the 
> desktop (or is there some abstruse keyboard shortcut?) to bring up 
> the app-ropriate menu 

It's not possible to use the Blackbox menus via keyboard


> The problem: how do you click at the desktop 
> when you have a maximized app filling the screen? 

Just shade the app window and click at the desktop (or move the
windows)! Maximized applications don't fill the whole Blackbox screen
- only manually oversized application windows do.

You can also use keyboard shortcuts to start applications (if you
install bbkeys).


[about MS-Windows taskbar]
> Here's one problem the Windows folks have solved pretty well.

It looks soo ugly, is out of use most of the time, and you cannot
stick the menus.


Ciao, Mark Weinem



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