Re: Proposed deletion of checkpoint on spawning windows

At 03:02 PM 8/25/99 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>
>So I think I'm close to agreeing that the user needs to be able to say "no,
>don't open a new window. Does this mean "force the new window content into
>this window instead"? Or "forget it"? which is what happens in lynx when I am
>reading a page written by some clown who thinks
>javascript:popout_window('some_uri') is a URI. (Should we specify an answer
>to that question at all?)
>
>Charles McCN
>

I think that the ideal answer is that the structure for indexing currently
open processes is part of the desktop, not the kernel.  Then the user has a
prayer of recalling how it works.  Emacs and screen are close what one
would do in speech; I have not read Raman's book to see how much he
develops this topic.

One option in the above scenario is "pop it on the stack" a_la what has
been considered in SMIL: current process suspends and resumes when added
process terminates, all if the user OKs.

Al

Received on Wednesday, 25 August 1999 15:25:59 UTC