>>> Minimizing works better; you don't have a window's title bar
>>> cluttering the screen.
>> minimzing is also a UI break again this applies to winbows too).
>> * minimizing MOVES THE POSITION of an interface object which was placed
>> there by the user.
>
>So? Unless you're going to minimize and immediately maximize the
>window, it's not a concern.
wrong -
in ths case of minimization, the OS is moving an object placed there by
the user. This would be similar to photoshop moving an object, because
you changed its color.
one of the guidelines of UI - do NOT move objects placed by the user.
another - when in doubt, the user is always right.
>> * recovering a minimized window requires the user to perform additonal
>> mouse movement to a location different from the final position of the
>> object(s) in question.
>
>See above.
>
>> * as a continuation from the previous - since the window is minimized
>> to the dock, there is no visual clue to the user where the window will
>> return. here there is no - or incorrect user feedback as to the
>> position
>> of the object(s) final location
>
>As soon as it opens, you know where it is.
however, until it is open you do not know where it is.
again - user feed back - this is the key to a UI.
the user should *always* know where objects they placed are. The user
should always feel in control.
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Chip Scheide Systems Coordinator
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
"And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute,
is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any
prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of
government will will disable us from descerning a good one."
Thomas Paine - Common Sense, Feb 14 1776
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