I don't recall anything I liked about 3.1, but certainly all those gesture-based actions that came later are a plague.
On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 3:15 PM CAREY SCHUG via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Am i the ONLY person who preferred the win 3.1 user interface? Probably, > since I have never seen one like it on linux, and everybody else complains > about it. > > 1. I don't like "active anything" that pops up when I move the mouse one > pixel further than I intended, or hides itself just as I am clicking on it > so the click goes through to something behind, unintended. and don't get > me started on when I am resizing and go one pixel past the edge, so it > maximizes...across all my displays. sometimes takes me 3-5 attempts to > resize one window to almost fill one physical display. i think the > maximizing across multiple displays is only a winblows problem. > > 2. I could customize groupings in program manager: > --this group is all things related to the newsletter I prepare monthly, > including the actual document, background info, program to print it, > browser with related information, etc. for the 3 days per month I work on > it, and keeps out of my way the rest of the time. > --or this group is only brought up in the spring, with items for planning > my garden. but I might also bring it up briefly in the autumn when I see > some special seeds I never heard about before. > --the groupings helped for seldom used files/programs whose name I have > trouble remembering...just bring up the group and it is there > --program manager was always there when I wanted it, or got hidden when I > didn't > > 3. file manager had features I maybe could find now but have not, such as > --tiling *or* cascading several directories, and dragging files from one > to another, harder to set up with tabs or multiple instances of file > manager. > --(maybe its fond memories, but I think I could) select several files and > sort ONLY THEM, leaving the others unmoved, > --sort on file extension, > --sort with wildcards (probably can, just my ignorance?) > --show date and time even for not the last 24 hour files (I think I did > find such a file manager, but it lacked some other critical functions, or > crashed all the time. > > two really big plusses afaik only in linux: > --I can expand a subdirectory now without jumping completely to it, which > win 3.1 could not do > --also like that when attaching to an email, or opening, I can select from > "recently used" > > another wish (for winblows or linux) if it was like Dos/win3.1, where you > boot do a dos prompt, it would be nice if I could bring up the graphical > interface with &, and then bring up a second one....maybe a different, one > or with different options...especially now that I have multiple display > adapters, a win 3.1 like UI on one monitor, and a current UI on on the > other monitor, then from either drag application windows to a third monitor. >
