b_s-wilk wrote:
Use Exposé to see or hide all windows.
Nobody but the IT educated know what Expose is... where it is ... nor
how to use it. It's one of the cludges I was referring to.
Obviously it was developed because Apple was aware of the problem /
need but they could have done that by fixing the Finder / Dock where
that function would be readily apparent.
You don't need to be IT educated to find the Help menu at the top of
the screen and input simple search terms. All you need is eyes and the
ability to read. You seem to be making it more complicated than it
actually is.
I wasn't the person who started the help issue string. Although I
resent having to look things up and do work around when it shouldn't be
necessary, I easily can.
And it's not complicated for you... you have long been an IT who loves
to learn this stuff. The fact that IT people think and expect everyone
else to be like them is the big geek disconnect that the rest of the
world wonders about and makes fun of.
Most people I know are busy and they just want to use their machine for
simple tasks: email / browsing / writing letters / keeping accounts/
handling their music / movies. They dread having to spend the time to
dig out an education from a machine ... they are not good at it and
they just don't do it. They are people people not IT people.
That was the whole concept behind GUI... computer operation for
novices. My point is where the "king" of GUI's is not intuitive, THAT
should be fixed. It only makes common sense and utility for those who
depend on it to do so.
If Apple would just let go of some of the "pride" thing, they could more
completely and justly be worthy of that pride and the respect that goes
with it.
Seems to me a no-brainer...
Finder --> Help --> Search "hide and show windows" --> Show All
Results... opens the Mac Help Viewer with the answers.
Remember the good old days when we had manuals and tutorials? You may
have to buy a manual, but Mac OS X has dozens of built-in and linked
tutorials. Where?
Finder --> Help --> Search "tutorials" --> Show All Results... Some
tutorials are local and others need Internet connections. You can set
up the computers so they can go to the online tutorials when users
click on the articles in the Mac Help Viewer.
I know where all these things are... but that's exactly my point... I
and others should not have to be doing so for things that by now could
easily have been made "drop dead simple". We have better things to do
with our limited time.
db
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