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Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:16:16 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>    That is such an awful binding BTW ! At least, this menu could be a
> sub-part of every contextual menu popped up by Mouse-3 in *windows*, and
> mouse-3 on the modeline should pop up a modeline specific
> contextual-menu.

I agree.  Mouse-3 is a standard button for pop-up context menus nowadays.

>   Actually, Emacs windows are an obsolete concept that today brings us
> nothing but additional and unwanted complexity.

Not true.  Most modern applications use tiled windows inside a frame,
and open additional frames only optionally when specially requested
as Emacs already does.

Look at modern IDEs - they usually have a window with a class browser,
a window with class members, windows with source files; all in one frame.
Look at modern mailers - they have a window with folders, with messages;
all in one frame.  Look at modern Web browsers - they have a window for
bookmarks, history, and Web pages arranged in tabs.  Even M$ that for a
long time insisted on the concept "one page - one frame" now implemented
tabs in the latest IE.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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