Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode
Date	2016-11-19 19:50 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-11-19, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-11-17 11:36, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2016-11-16, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2016-11-16 08:45, Lewis wrote:
>>>> In message <582ba4f2$0$34694$c3e8da3$dbd57e7@news.astraweb.com>
>>>>   JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>>>> On 2016-11-15 18:50, Lewis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Well then, if every space takes up all displays, the behavior is
>>>>>> exactly as it should be.
>>>>
>>>>> The fact that I didn't know how to disable that dreaded mode means
>>>>> that it isn't as expected.
>>>>
>>>> You must have known, since you enabled the dreadful mode.
>>>
>>> I see JF's point.  The green button is there to be pressed.  Once
>>> pressed there is nothing visible to undo it.  Escape usually works and
>>> is 95% obvious; the "push the cursor to the top and wait for the menu
>>> bar" is definitely not obvious.
>>
>> True, but once you know how it works, it's not a big deal. One
>> improvement would be to momentarily display the menu and window title
>> bar after entering full screen mode, then slide them away until they are
>> hidden with animation to make it more obvious. Displaying an actually
>
> That would work pretty well.

If it really bothered me (it doesn't, in th grand scheme of things), I'd
probably submit it as feedback to Apple.

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Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 14:00 -0500
  Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-13 14:11 -0500
    Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 19:51 +0000
      Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 15:06 -0500
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 20:08 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-13 16:39 -0500
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 17:08 -0500
            Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-13 17:13 -0500
              Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 22:21 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 17:45 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 23:44 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 23:32 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 05:22 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-14 07:29 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 17:31 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-14 18:36 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 05:08 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-15 05:24 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 05:50 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-15 08:36 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 23:50 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-15 19:14 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-16 01:05 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-15 20:47 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-16 13:45 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-16 18:53 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-17 16:36 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-19 09:43 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-19 19:50 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-19 15:22 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-19 21:31 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-19 21:59 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-19 21:56 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-19 18:32 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-17 01:07 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-17 08:16 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-17 15:19 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-18 03:20 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-15 08:36 -0500
            Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 22:22 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-11-13 19:37 -0600
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 01:59 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-14 07:26 +0000
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2016-11-14 09:09 +0100
      Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-14 07:25 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 17:06 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2016-11-14 12:46 -0600
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 05:06 +0000
            Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-11-15 19:46 +1300
  Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 19:49 +0000

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