> Mac OS X's Finder application dock is useful but I find it's
> implementation one of my least favorite things about the Finder
> interface. I normally leave it hidden unless I have a lot of screen
> space, I wish I could turn it on and off at will and not have the
> mouse auto-activate it. They don't have much in way of singing and
> dancing icons in the dock, just a little pip to tell you what's
> actually running and something to indicate that an application is
> starting up ... I don't find thos particularly obnoxious.
>
Yet another thing that was shamelessly morphed from NeXTStep. I
never really liked the dock notion either.
> The things I don't like about Mac OS X are many, but are far over-
> shadowed by what I do like, and none seem to get in my way. The
> things I can't stand about Microsoft applications and Windows UI are
> things that get in my way every single time I use them. I've not
> spent much time using a Linux system in several years so I can't
> comment about UI horrors or accolades there.
>
One question I have about MacOSX... does it have a virtual desktop
gizmo available out of the box and/or a decent add-on? The ones for
windows all suck and are annoyware. Of course, most of the suckiness
comes from windows' horrible scheduler under the hood.
> Lesser or better? I don't care. l just don't want to be annoyed by
> the box I do my work on. To each their favorite horrors... ;-) ;-)
>
Absolutely. I don't give a whole lot of thought to the GUI, but
then again I fire up just about everything from a terminal anyway. Much
quicker to type 'system-config-network' than it is to wade through a dozen
or so menus that completely change names every 6 months' worth of
distributions. Definately to each their own.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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