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(a)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.