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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Reference

Window Icon Box

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Description

A window icon box is a primary window that displays a container with window icons. Associated with this is the Pack Icons action choice, which packs the window icons as close as possible to each other within the visible area of a window icon box.

Figure 75. Window Icon Box.




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When to Use

Required
Provide a window icon box for the user to store window icons.

Guidelines

Required
Make the window icon box a primary window whose viewing area includes a container for window icons, scrollable if necessary.

Required
Do not support the Close choice for the window icon box.

Required
Design the window icon of a window placed in the window icon box to be the same as the window icon would be if it were on the workspace.

Recommended
Assign Ctrl Esc as the shortcut key to display the window icon box and raise it to the top of the stacking order.

Recommended
When a window icon box is provided, minimize all windows (except for the icon box itself) to the icon box and not to the screen.

Recommended
If you provide a window icon box, provide only one.

Required
Include a Pack Icons choice in the window menu of the icon box.

Required
Make the Pack Icons choice the default menu item of the window icon box's window menu.

Required
The Pack Icons choice should have the icons arranged in the icon box as closely as possible in the visible area.

Essential Related Topics

For more information, see the Minimize (Choice) and Window Icon reference pages.

Supplemental Related Topics

For more information, see the Window Navigation reference page.

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