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.
>

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