On cascading windows

James W Dow dow at oakland.edu
Sun Feb 19 05:04:24 CET 2006


Why not cascade windows diagonally from top right to bottom left. This would 
leave the top left corner exposed, even if the windows were different sizes. 
There would always be a visible tag to click on, and this tag would contain 
the icon indicating the content of the window. Cascading from top left to 
bottom right, as is now done, can cover up windows, unless they are the same 
size, whereupon the lower left and upper right corners will be exposed as 
tabs; however because the windows are hardly ever the same size, this can 
bury some windows when others are brought forward. The goal of cascading 
should be to always have one corner exposed as a tab no matter how the layers 
are arranged in depth. Perhaps the user could choose the cascading style and 
whether or not the windows would be resised. Keep up the good work.

Jim


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