clueless GNOME bashing (was Re: [rescue] Mozilla Firefox)

[Andrew Weiss]

On Apr 28, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Nathan Raymond wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Tim H. wrote:
>
>> Why would you maximize a window anyway?
>
> Because you can have windows within windows - one of the single most
> stupid UI conventions ever invented.  Whoever came up with that one 
> should
> be shot.
>
> --
> Nathan Raymond
>
Probably had to do with cooperative multi-tasking and the Windows 3.x 
and earlier days when it was a lot more trouble or perhaps impossible 
to generate multiple standalone windows per application.

Andrew