Re: Worst design fault in windows.

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"Ian D" <taurus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:45:01 -0800, Robert_L_Ross
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I noticed he never offered up an OS that had that feature...

What does that have to do with anything? If no other OS has some
feature, then none should have it? That would be the end of progress.

sounds like a
hater to me - someone you will never please.

You mean he doesn't agree with you.

He has a valid point. It's not a huge point, fairly minor point,
actually, buy a valid one nonetheless. In Windows, if you click on
something, it gets the focus, which means that it comes to the top.
This doesn't happen with the desktop, which means it's a desing
inconsistency. It's valid point.


Focus is what's it's all about, and probably that's why MS designed
it the way they did. Think about it. You have several apps open,
then you accidently click on the desktop. Boom, everything is
minimised.

Bull. People no more inadvertantly click on the desktop than they
click on the start button and then inadvertantly shutdown, or click on
any window and Boom everything is gone.
Anyway everything would not be minimised, that is just you iintroducing
another design fault into the system, instead the desktop would merely be
brought to the fore, clicking on it would put it in the background.


People probably inadvertently click on the desktop often,
but it now has no effect. Think of the complaints if that was changed.
In addition, for productivity, it's possible to set up the desktop so that
whatever window the mouse cursor is in automatically gets the focus,
called X-mouse. In that case, every time the cursor touched the desktop
everything would minimise.
And if you touched a big window you would bring that to the fore
making other windows inaccessable.

In fact it would be impossible to run
applications in anything less than full screen. If an application is
minimised you go to the taskbar to open it, then, as soon as the cursor
hits the desktop it's minimised again. The same would apply to clicking
an icon to open an application.

No you have got it all wrong.

That's probably why MS designed it so that a separate action must
be taken to bring the desktop to the foreground.



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