groups and background

[Dar Scott]

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 01:31 PM, erik hansen wrote:

> so there IS a RunRev specific reason to use the the "background" 
> concept.
>
I think the double "the" typo is significant.  I think we run into 
trouble in thinking of "the" background concept.  There seems to be 
two, even though both seem to have a basis in history.  There is 
background in the sense of backgroundBehaviour and background in the 
sense of thinking of groups belonging to the stack.  The 
backgroundbehaviour path modification, automatic placement and 
backgroundNames() are related to the first concept.  The rest of the 
uses of the word "background" seem to be related to the second, though 
there may be a few for the first concept that I missed.

  Dar Scott