From kde-devel  Thu Jun 24 14:37:53 1999
From: Jo Dillon <emily () thelonious ! new ! ox ! ac ! uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:37:53 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: A question on terminology (fwd)
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Stefan van den Oord (s.m.vandenoord@student.utwente.nl) spake thusly:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Jo Dillon wrote:
> >   Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they mean different things to us
> > by that? Their windows minimise to the titlebars and back, rather than
> > disappearing altogether.
> 
> That's something else. Indeed, they have that functionality. In KDE,
> it is called "shade" and "unshade". I don't know what it is called in
> MacOS. But MacOS also has a special menu (at the right of the
> menubar, in the top of the screen) with all running application. That
> menu has entries to hide and show applications. Selecting "hide"
> there will make the application go away entirely; it only remains in
> that list of running apps.

  Ah, I get you - it's per-application, not per-window, so our using hide
for per-window hiding would look slightly odd to a Mac chappie, but yes, 
I see what you mean.

-- 
	Jo