Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu.

Subject	Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu.
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
From	Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com>
Date	2012-03-23 13:16 +0000
Message-ID	<f726f87452.jess@itworkshop.invalid> (permalink)
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          "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> wrote:

> On 23-Mar-2012, Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> Why does it have to bring up a tiny line on the bottom?
>> (I can imagine why it needed to in the past, but now?)
>>
>> A nice box in the middle of the screen would be better.

> Err, yes. That's called a 'Task Window'.

But a task window is multitasking.

The current behaviour is obviously contrived so it is the same as what 
was obviously easy to do in the original display chipsets.

With current video hardware, surely this doesn't need to be the same.

-- 
Jess                   Iyonix

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          Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-23 10:54 +0000
            Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 11:57 +0000
              Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-23 13:16 +0000
            Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 12:12 +0000
              Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. Chris Gransden <chrisg@care4free.net> - 2012-03-23 12:59 +0000
                Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-03-23 18:13 +0100
                Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 18:50 +0100
                Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-03-24 09:42 +0100
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              Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-23 13:18 +0000
                Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 14:03 +0000
                Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-23 14:38 +0000
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                Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-24 11:40 +0000
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