Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: Feature request: mouse gestures in Nautilus

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Mike Bennett wrote:

> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:43:39PM -0700, Jim Gettys wrote:
>
> > What do you mean by "multi-scalar windows"?
>
> The current UI allows us to resize windows. The act of resizing 
> smaller means an application has less screen space in which to display
> information, i.e. the information space is clipped. An example
> is when a stock market application is resized smaller you can no longer 
> view as many ticker symbols or when a web browser is resized
> smaller you can no longer view as much of a web page.
>
> If you have a multi-scalar UI then you have the extra ability to
> "scale" an application, e.g. when you rescale the stock market application,
> to take less screen space, the application changes size but information
> viewable remains the same, except its all smaller. Or when you rescale
> the web browser, to take less screen space, all the text and graphics
> still appear but the fonts are smaller, the images in the web page
> the scaled downwards, the application menu buttons are smaller, etc.
>
> So resizing reduces or increases the size of the information space
> viewable while scaling reduces or increases the size of the information
> CONTAINED in the information space with no loss of information (except
> for text and image degradation due to scaling algorithms).
>
> Mike

Wouldn't this be an application feature rather than an Xserver/window 
manager feature?

-b