On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:40 AM, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 2, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Adam Maas wrote: >> >> The sad part is there's really only two parts of the OS X UI that I >> dislike. The Dock and Finder. > > I didn't like them at first, since I was accustomed to OS9, but after using > the dock every day for years, I've grown to like it. I keep it hidden, but a > touch of the mouse wakes it up. I use the small icons and have numerous apps > represented there. I get a reasonably bright glowing mark below each running > app. Quite easy to see, even with my old eyes. > Paul
Win7's implementation is much nicer visibility-wise, the icon gets overlayed by a transparent glowing square when the app is running. Much better than the glowing dot. The Dock is definitely better than how OS 9 handled app switching and display of running apps. The move to the bright dot from the old black caret improved things. I prefer something of a minimalist UI personally. I've little use for shiny bits like Expose (or the windows equivalent). All I want from the basic UI is a good launcher, a good taskbar and an easy way to launch seldom-used apps along with access to configuration and the file browser. Both MS and Apple have added many features to their UI's which I'd happily do without (and never use). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
