Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)

[Richard Stallman]

    2. Add some strong visual clue (color, animation, whatever) when focus
       change to the minibuffer.

Is the colored prompt that appears enough of a visual cue?
If not, what else would you suggest?

    3. Maybe even have a dialog box (!) pointing to the minibuffer when
       activating a menu entry that traditionally pop up a dialog.  The
       box should have an "OK" and a "Don't pop up next time" button.

That would not be hard to implement with the existing facilities.

    1. Put the minibuffer in the top by default.

Would someone like to do this?  Note that there used to be
some things in update_screen that assumed the minibuffer
was at the bottom.