From kde-devel Thu Jun 24 09:27:04 1999 From: Nicolas Brodu Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:27:04 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: A question on terminology (fwd) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93021681417262 uwe@uwix.alt.na wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote: > > [ Iconify vs. Minimize ] > > > What do you think? > > That has been a long thread quite some time ago. Well, with Minimize > I'd always think the window will be shrunken to its minimum size. > Iconify isn't correct either because the window doesn't become an > icon. > > Maybe this time we can find a correct expression for what happens: > The window vanishes from the desktop; its representation in the > task bar remains. How about > Hide ? > > ...and don't think about it from a programmer's point of view > (w->hide()) but from a user's one (the window is gone but can be > retrieved). > > Uwe > I vote for "hide", especially because it's really what happens when you do not use the task bar. -------------------------------- Nicolas Brodu, brodu@iie.cnam.fr Eleve-Ingenieur 2eme annee (Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise) http://www-eleves.iie.cnam.fr/brodu (libsmb) KDE developer, brodu@kde.org http://www.kde.org, Color outside the lines !