On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 12:16 PM, Chip Scheide wrote: > the dock quickly fills with many objects; running applications, > folders, > minimized windows and applications, as well as other stuff the user > places there. This provides an interface which is cluttered, and > confusing (is that object in there because it is running?, or is it > there > because i placed it there yesterday? or is it minimized?)
Except for running applications, the only things on the doc are things you placed there and minimized windows. running applications have a small triangle beneath them. Minimized windows show a thumbnail of the window itself, and have a miniature icon of the application in the lower corner of the window's picture. > The seperated interface elements - apple menu and alication menu > provide > an easily organizable, uncluttered interface to recognize what objects > are presonal preferences (apple menu), and which are currently > executing > applications. And force you to look in two separate parts of the monitor--at opposite sides, to see both. I find no clutter in the Dock. The apps I want in it are there, in the order I want them. Any other running apps are to the right of them, in the order they were run. Then comes the separator bar, followed by documents and folders I placed there in the order I want, followed by any minimized windows. All very neat and clean. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
