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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Electric Borders are back!
From:       Allan Sandfeld Jensen <snowwolf () one2one-networks ! com>
Date:       2001-08-28 6:44:40
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On Monday 27 August 2001 23:49, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:35:04PM +0200, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Mon 27 Aug 01 23:22, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > > And please rename "Electric Borders" to something else, without
> > > > trying nobody (at least not me) can imagine what this means. How
> > > > about "Active desktop borders"
> > >
> > > I still don't know what it means (being honest here!), calling a
> > > feature a special kind of borders does not tell me what the feature
> > > does.
> > >
> > > Tell me in 5 words what it does, and you are halfway to a nice name for
> > > the feature.
> >
> > pushing the mouse against the desktop borders causes a switch to the
> > desktop in this direction
>
> Then something like "Desktop switching-borders" is better, altough I don't
> think it's the end-all name; you probably see my point that it tells you a
> lot more then 'electric borders'.

The border part still makes you think of windows. Call it "switch desktop at 
edge of screen." Its just a configuration option, it doen´t need a short 
fancy name.

`Allan

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