On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 12:16 PM, Chip Scheide wrote: > sorry - but the dock breaks most UI guidlines. > > 1 - it is NOT removable - you can NOT turn it off
Gee, you can't turn off menus either. > 2 - the various animations (on by default) are a distraction to the > user To you. > 3 - it inteferes with the normal and consistant operation of other > programs (including the finder) as there is no location where it is > *NOT* > in the way. As some examples: Because those applications aren't written properly for OS X. > * on the bottom it interferes with the viewing of the status/page > location in MS word and excel. If itis hidden then it inteferse when > tryin gto enter a new zoom factor in Photoshop. It doesn't happen with mail.app because mail.app. > * on the right it interferse with access to drives, and docments > mounted > on the desktop. > * on the left - many applications have tool bars (floating pallets and > such) that (at least as default) star on the left edge of the screen. As I said, they aren't written properly for OS X. With hiding on, I don't have those problems with any propertly written application. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
