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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: ATT Unix for Windows !
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On Fri, Aug 29, 1997 at 10:05:30PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
>> Talking about desktops: I have a very personal desktop with NT,
>> that looks totally different from what everybody else uses at the
>> office. (For the insiders: color scheme Rainy Day, background Blue
>> Monday, automatically hiding taskbar on top, small icons, and
>> shortcuts to all drives on my desktop, together with Netscape and
>> the mandatory icons.)
>
> Ooh, I'm impressed.  Now set it up to use a focus-follows-pointer, don't
> top on focus model.  Right.  You can't.  Bill likes click-to-focus,
> focus-window-on-top, so that is obviously *the right way.*

Blecchhh.

> The MS Windows "desktop manager" sucks, no two ways about it.

But it's fast, now, after they put it in the kernel :-)

Greg