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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A question on terminology (fwd)
From:       Nicolas Brodu <nicolas_brodu () HP-France-om17 ! om ! hp ! com>
Date:       1999-06-24 9:27:04
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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.

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Eleve-Ingenieur 2eme annee (Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise)
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