>On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 03:04 , Andrew Stiller wrote: > >> The >> default folder hierarchy is totally counterintuitive for me, and there >> is >> an awful lot of screen real-estate wasted on duplications of icons and >> menu >> items. > >Could you be more specific? I don't think OS 9 is so different from 8.
I was still confusing OSX w. OS9. However, even OS 9 has a folder hierarchy I consider bizarre: why would anyone want to keep a document separate from the application that created it? The folders in any GUI represent a taxonomy, and it should be one that is relevant to the way the machine is actually used. A root-level segregation of apps. from docs. is a programmer's taxonomy, not a user's. OSX, as far as I can see, boasts a profusion of needlessly duplicated icons and menu items that just waste screen space--but fortunately I don't have to worry about that right now. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
