On Dec 9, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Omni_Jim Witte wrote: >> Yeah it's the sad new "linear thinking" mode Apple has gotten themselves >> into of late. Personally, I'd like a 3D cube of workspaces, but that's just >> me... > > Any idea *why* that is? I thought the whole thing that made “1984 not > like 1984” in the first place was the idea of the GUI.. The has *2* > dimensions instead of (more or less) one for the command-line interfaces that > came before it (more-or-less). This also seems odd given that Apple also > apparently moving toward using a track-*pad* as a major input source - the > major change about gestures (as opposed to a mouse) being that they make use > of the relative positions of more than one finger in a plane (and time). > > Jim
Agreed. The only perhaps appropriate eye-candy metaphor would be a stack like a stack of tasks on your desk, but that’s exactly what you want to avoid, and is not easy to swipe to get to. (I assume you can do that? dunno, don’t use it) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
