FISCHER@RUTGERS.ARPA (11/01/83)
From: Ron <FISCHER@RUTGERS.ARPA> I believe the word is inundated. The Window and icon concepts are nice for creating an easy to understand user interface. Modes are mostly eliminated and encapsulated in menus or windows. It is easy to regulate how much you see using a menu and opening appropriate windows on an icon. However, It seems that almost every time a mouse button is pressed in one of these interfaces a window pops up. It is rather easy to get many empty windows piled up. This is especially true of the Interlisp debugger. Is there some intermediary twixt window and icon that can represent a bit more info? I can imagine all sorts of things that might do this, but could someone provide me with an example from a real system? (ron) -------