b_s-wilk wrote:
And the newer Mac add-ons to expose the desktop, find the current
window, find all the windows, switch windows, more easlily find your
program executable are laboriously clumsy and cluged work-arounds
that could just be solved by fixing the instruments that were
originally designed to perform those functions ... the Finder, dock,
and menus
Automobiles used to have starting systems, shift levers, headlight
dimmer, horns ... you name it ... all working differently and
located all over the interior of the car with each manufacturer. But
guess what?... they all work all most identically now and they are
all located in the same relative place. By and large better utility
won out.... probably because in the case of autos ... form REALLY
followed function ... it was dangerous to continue otherwise...
Apple would be better off in its own right if they would give a
little now and then when someone else has a better design element...
Find the Mac desktop: Command + H hides the open programs and reveals
the desktop, or if in the Finder, Option + Command + H hides
everything else.
Why not just one key command? It's all these alternatives that are
killing ... I'm trying to figure out the work not every version of every
type of digital device I might be using to access my work. Windows show
desktop on the quick launch menu ... does exactly that no matter
what... it's a visible icon with a mouse over descriptor...
It's superficially available to even a novice...
Guess what? Not all automobiles are almost identical now!
Is that a feature? Seems like one that increases the odds of getting
me killed when someone else on the highway with me borrows a mini and is
struggling in a sudden downpour to find the wipers?
Driven a MINI lately? First time I drove in a blinding rain storm, I
had to pull over to look at the manual to figure out how to turn on
the windshield wipers. Had to get out the manual to figure out how to
open the bonnet to find the battery, then needed the manual to reset
the tire pressure control monitor. Needed the manual to display the
speed on the steering wheel display instead of the huge superfluous
speedometer. The many thousands of other settings are unlike in any
car I've driven before, and I've driven a lot of different cars. I
still love my MINI. It's so much fun! Have you ever driven a Citroën
or Skoda? They're different too, not cludged or clumsy--different.
I love differences... just not ones that make me more inefficient in my
work, endanger me, disadvantage people etc....
Computer OSs are different too. How about the annoyance when switching
cell phones? I switch from Nokia to Samsung to Motorola to
Sony-Ericsson back to Nokia. Each has a different OS, different menus.
Again ... is that considered a feature? Or a painful primitive stage
in the development curve of a new technology?
I understand perfectly that such can't be avoided in dev cycles and
that is exactly what I am trying to say with my Finder, Dock comments:
... "... HEY everybody... don't you think the Mac needs to be improved
in such and such? Hey guys, why are we stopping here? ..."
Some are better, some worse, depends on what you prefer, and it's the
same with computers. None are perfect. You use what works for you.
I'm not asking for perfect... I am asking for specific improvement that
could easily be done.
"Goodness and excellence comes with the pursuit of perfect..."
Have you tried to learn a foreign language lately?
Yes... and I am of the age that they don't come easily or very well any
more. I do by best but that is just the way it is and increasingly will
be for me.
Which is exactly my point... Utilitarian tools should not discriminate
against the inexperienced nor the aging...
Experts don't need intuitive tools ... it's everyone else that does...
db
Betty
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