On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 10:53:45AM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit: [snip] > little caret), but it still fails due to the poor assumption that your > launcher and task switcher should be the same thing, a UI paradigm > which sucked on NeXTStep and still sucks today. And it forces you to > stack running windows, rather than having the option of having each > individual window show up on the taskbar when you don't have a lot of > them open (one of my favourite things about the Windows-style > taskbar).
This is why good implementations of the "dock" paradigm use viewports, too, and a large virtual desktop. You can give every running application or application group its very own screen and switch rapidly between them. That would really confuse people used to the Windows Task Bar, though. (I know this from watching people try to interact with my standard AfterStep desktop setup, so it's not just my emulation of the turnip-nature dealing with Windows.) -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
