From kde-devel Thu Jun 24 15:24:14 1999 From: Michael Reiher Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:24:14 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: A question on terminology (fwd) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93023857705830 Waldo Bastian wrote: > > Jo Dillon wrote: > > > In the MacOS corner, hide and show are common language... (Well, I > > > can't verify that, but I am prety sure.) And, honestly, I have more > > > confidence in Apple's choices than in MicroSoft's. > > > > 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. > > Which we support as well.. If only I could remember the name we > use for that. It's something totally unintuitive.... It it called "Shade". That reminds me on the strange german translation in recent 1.1.x. "Shade" is translated to "Verlauf":) It was something more intuitive in the past. > > Perhaps we can give that another name as well.. something like > "roll up". For those with redundant CPU power we could even generate Yea, thatīd be good. Greets Michael > some nice 3D animation for that. (Well, I can't but I'm sure > there is someone who can) > > Cheers, > Waldo > -- > KDE, A New Millennium, A New Desktop http://www.kde.org -- Michael Reiher Student at Dresden University of Technology Department of Computer Science email: michael.reiher@gmx.de