Re: Major feature that is missing in gnome

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Alexander Larsson">
> 
> > In my opinion "Show Something" really means "make Something appear on the 
> > screen, but don't remove everything that isn't Something that was already 
> > on the screen".
> 
> AOL. How about "Hide All" / "Show All", ala Mac OS? (We might have to throw
> another word in.)

Well, the actual reason you want to press that button is mainly to get 
access to the desktop. I think it's better to have that operation easy to 
find for users than to avoid some possible impurity in the definition of 
the desktop term.

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