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Windoid N. In The Macintosh World, A Style Of Window With Much Less Adornment (smaller Or Missing Title Bar, Zoom Box, Etc, Etc) Than A Standard Window.
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windoid n.
In the Macintosh world, a style of window with
much less adornment (smaller or missing title bar, zoom box, etc,
etc) than a standard window.
Related:
window shopping n. [US Geological Survey] Among users of WIMP environments like X or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time....
window shopping: [US Geological Survey] n. Among users of {WIMP environment}s like {X} or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time....
monty /mon'tee/ n. 1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks.
An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories....
ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE ======================== JCL support as alternative to system menu.
In our continuing effort to support languages other than LISP on the CADDR, we have developed an OS/360-compatible JCL....
How much is that wookie in the window?
Macintoy /mak'in-toy/ n. The Apple Macintosh, considered as a toy.
Less pejorative than Macintrash....
Macintoy: /mak'in-toy/ n. The Apple Macintosh, considered as a {toy}.
Less pejorative than {Macintrash}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
WordPerfect isn't, Pagemaker doesn't, etc., etc., etc....
moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....