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- From: mattf@cac.washington.edu (Matthew Freedman)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: Click to Raise Windows vs. Point to Rais
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.171608.16183@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:16:08 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov19.171608.16183
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- mike@CIS.Prime.COM (Mike Causer) writes:
- >
- > Why force users one way or the other? As a long-term SunView user
- > (forced to OpenWindows now), I prefer to have point-to-focus, but
- > "raising" as an explicit action. Any "reasonable" window manager would
- > allow separate choices for these.
-
- This is for public, walk-up terminals in our libraries. Users do not
- have personal accounts. We want to give them as little opportunity to
- mess up the system for next person as possible. We don't even let them
- resize windows.
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- The majority of our users would be totally confused by the choice if
- we did give it to them somehow.
-
- -- Matt
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