From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John S. Yates, Jr." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: File menu changes (suggestions) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:51:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <42BF0E53.2020505@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119876934 28050 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2005 12:55:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:55:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 14:55:25 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmt8R-0006Bq-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:54:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmtG4-0004xx-Ol for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:02:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmtF0-0004ir-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmtEy-0004iH-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmtBf-0003qj-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.127.198.35] (helo=rwcrmhc11.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dmt4J-0002U9-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:50:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.yates-sheets.org ([24.218.47.3]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <20050627124609013002umtne>; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:46:10 +0000 Original-Received: from 10.1.1.4 ([10.1.1.4]) by mail.yates-sheets.org (WinRoute Pro 4.2.5) with SMTP; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:50:57 -0400 Original-Received: from dadold.yates-sheets.org ([10.1.1.12]) by [10.1.1.4] with SMTP (SpamPal v1.57) sender ; 27 Jun 2005 08:50:57 -0400 Original-To: In-Reply-To: <42BF0E53.2020505@student.lu.se> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 X-SpamPal: PASS WLIST EMAIL X-Wlist-Pattern: john@yates-sheets.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39650 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39650 Lennart Borgman wrote: >John S. Yates, Jr. wrote: > >>Maximize? > >It is a quite funny remark, but I do not believe anyone will understand=20 >"Only One Window" that way... ;-) But I was not trying to be funny. "Maximize" was a sincere suggestion. That is because if the goal is to analogize Emacs' behavior to that of applications familiar to new users then the widely used Multiple Document Interface application style must be taken into account: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface Except for the fact that MDI document windows are not tiled they are very akin to Emacs windows. An MDI document window invariably has iconize, close and maximize/restore icons on its title bar. Clicking an MDI document's maximize icon has an effect identical to delete-other-windows: - all other documents become invisible (ie their "windows" get deleted) - the clicked document grows to occupy the entire workspace of the MDI application (essentially the containing Emacs frame) /john