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• Don't forget about the system box (Score: 3, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Monday October 05 2020, @09:46PM

  by SomeGuy (5632) on Monday October 05 2020, @09:46PM (#1061107)

  On the early Macintosh Finder, close was a single click box on the upper left of each finder/document window, but that did not usually close applications since they still sort of ran one at a time.

  In Windows this evolved in to a "system box" that was double clicked to close a window, or single clicked to bring up a menu with other windowing commands. Alt-space also brings up the menu which enables window sizing and moving with the keyboard.

  Windows 95 added a single-click close button in the upper right, changed the appearance of the system box to the icon of the current program, and extended the functionality by enabling right-clicking (useful on an Explorer window, same options as right-clicking on its folder in the parent window)

  Unfortunately, I have seen many applications that piss all over the system box. Either they badly change the menu that comes up, or they try to eliminate it all together. (Because moderrrrn).

  I sometimes still double click the system box to close an application or window, and it bugs me when it does not work as expected. Alt-space can actually be quite useful when something messes up the mouse cursor.

  I was under the impression most idiots just "swiped" crap away on their toy grease screens these days.

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