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Mike Barnes[_2_] Mike Barnes[_2_] is offline
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Huge wrote:
On 2015-01-24, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Huge
scribeth thus
On 2015-01-23, Dave Liquorice wrote:

I keep wandering off to look but I've yet to be won over by any linux
desktop compared to Presentation Manager on OS/2. They have the
annoying restrictions that the Windows desktop has. Dialogue open?
You can only move or switch to a limited set of windows.

Nope. That's one of the reasons I loathe Windows. Click "File - Open",
Windows opens a file chooser, damn, I've forgotten where the file is, now
I have to close the ****ing chooser to go and remind myself where the file
is. Any system that seizes the inpput focus is broken.


Sorry to sound dense


Not at all.

but can you go thru that in a little more detail as
to what your doing please?.

Where is this file chooser that you speak of?. Did you mean a search
function?.


No. When you select "File - Open" in any Windows app, the thing that
pops up and allows you to select which file you wish to open is called
a "chooser". If what you're choosing is a file, it's called a "file
chooser".


That's the first time I've heard the Windows Open dialog called a
"chooser". Isn't that a Mac term? On Windows it's actually an
incarnation of Windows Explorer.

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Mike Barnes
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