Rollovers and single clicks are the way.
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You've got to be kidding here. single-click is extremely sensitive to error and firing up stuff you never intended to and more annoyances like that. It's just like the M$ active desktop stuff on windoze. It must be the most annoying thing they ever brought to an already shitty OS. NeXT didn't keep it all double-click for nothing. There's a reason for everything in this gui-concept and I think one of the reasons that Window Maker is so highly appreciated in the unix community is because of it's extremely functional gui philosophy, borrowed from NeXT of course. This is exactly where AfterStep went to hell: introducing inconsistant gui stuff, useless bloat and other similar things. It's a good thing the Window Maker developers are rather strict as far as the interface is concerned and I believe strongly that this is one of the strongest points that Window Maker has over a lot of other environments.
I, as the one responsible for most of the graphics distributed with WindowMaker, being the icon set, the WPrefs.app graphics and ColorPanel graphics tried to jump on this bandwagon BEFORE the fact. It started with some simple graphics but the latest versions have a definitive set which I hope people will appreciate. And I hope it adds to the general look and feel of WindowMaker of course. I tried to work very closely with Alfredo Kojima and Dan Pascu. I listened to all their comments and made modifications according to their wishes while trying to stay in style with WindowMaker's NeXT-alike look and feel. Therefore I guess Window Maker is an exception to the above illustrated example since this did not at all happen "after the fact":)
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You've got to be kidding here.
single-click is extremely sensitive to error
and firing up stuff you never intended to
and more annoyances like that. It's just like
the M$ active desktop stuff on windoze. It must
be the most annoying thing they ever brought to
an already shitty OS.
NeXT didn't keep it all double-click for nothing.
There's a reason for everything in this
gui-concept and I think one of the reasons that
Window Maker is so highly appreciated in the
unix community is because of it's extremely
functional gui philosophy, borrowed from NeXT of
course. This is exactly where AfterStep went to
hell: introducing inconsistant gui stuff, useless
bloat and other similar things. It's a good thing
the Window Maker developers are rather strict as
far as the interface is concerned and I believe
strongly that this is one of the strongest points
that Window Maker has over a lot of other
environments.
-- Marco
I, as the one responsible for most of the graphics :)
distributed with WindowMaker, being the icon set,
the WPrefs.app graphics and ColorPanel graphics
tried to jump on this bandwagon BEFORE the fact.
It started with some simple graphics but the latest versions have a definitive set which I hope
people will appreciate. And I hope it adds to the
general look and feel of WindowMaker of course.
I tried to work very closely with Alfredo Kojima
and Dan Pascu. I listened to all their comments
and made modifications according to their wishes
while trying to stay in style with WindowMaker's
NeXT-alike look and feel.
Therefore I guess Window Maker is an exception
to the above illustrated example since this did
not at all happen "after the fact"
Cheers!
Marco