03-31-2011, 09:24 PM -
I'd like something that allows us to send a window to the back of a stack.
The situation I'm thinking of is when we have two or more windows open on the screen and want to manage them. At the moment we can bring a window to the front (and it gains input focus), but nothing I know of to send a window to behind the top window and lose input focus, nor to send it right to the back.
An example of usage. I've got a filer window open and I'm choosing an image to send by email. The image might need work to make it suitable, so I do that and keep the filer window open. Then open an email application and I want to be able to drag the image into the email window.
This is do-able now as long as you arrange the windows using the crude controls.
I know I can add an attachment by using the email app and digging around the hard drive. But when I've got the source directory open already why should I do that! Being able to put the email window to the back and access the filer window allows a simple and quick way to drag an image into the email.
That's just a simple example. There are many others. My previous OS (RISC OS) had the ability to manage multiple windows by a back button on every window, whereby the window can be popped back one by one in a sequence, stopping at the bottom of the window pile.
Brian
The situation I'm thinking of is when we have two or more windows open on the screen and want to manage them. At the moment we can bring a window to the front (and it gains input focus), but nothing I know of to send a window to behind the top window and lose input focus, nor to send it right to the back.
An example of usage. I've got a filer window open and I'm choosing an image to send by email. The image might need work to make it suitable, so I do that and keep the filer window open. Then open an email application and I want to be able to drag the image into the email window.
This is do-able now as long as you arrange the windows using the crude controls.
I know I can add an attachment by using the email app and digging around the hard drive. But when I've got the source directory open already why should I do that! Being able to put the email window to the back and access the filer window allows a simple and quick way to drag an image into the email.
That's just a simple example. There are many others. My previous OS (RISC OS) had the ability to manage multiple windows by a back button on every window, whereby the window can be popped back one by one in a sequence, stopping at the bottom of the window pile.
Brian
