Subject: Re: Exit desktop on Task Manager menu. Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc From: Jess X-Editor: EmailEdit 6.00 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:16:22 GMT Message-ID: References: <2b0bf96f52.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk> <5270123ac6steve@revi11.plus.com> <527095cedcsteve@revi11.plus.com> <6faa2a7352.jim@nails.abbeypress.net> <6f2feb7452.jess@itworkshop.invalid> <9t36piF6t7U1@mid.individual.net> Organization: ITWorkshop User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/6.03 (MsgServe/6.00) (RISC-OS/5.18) NewsHound/v1.50-32 Lines: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.20.112.175 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=j^U]Vd>o]bbCf4eYcI3F5hYSB=nbEKnkkLhTCTMg=bPjMo@OLBVNESj?J[Q:hI>9EmjOgkk0RWXja^@9aO3`0Dl`XiZa>8N2g?`f_Q`M54Mcbb X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.stben.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed101.telia.com!starscream.dk.telia.net!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:4576 In message <9t36piF6t7U1@mid.individual.net> "David Holden" wrote: > On 23-Mar-2012, Jess 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