They might argue, but when you are using the dock for all these other purposes it gets to be a tad crowded and small, or it gets in the way.
The idea of collapsing folders to tabs along the base of the window was really handy, if that were still available, this might make the Dock available for simply the System Preferences and open items, but sorry, MacOS 9 was far slicker in the way open folders, running applications and utilities were catered for. The tear off for App Switcher that floated above other windows meant I could drag items from one program to another with far less hassle than in Ten. I am using Ten almost exclusively, and like much of what I use, but some of the aspects of Nine workflow that had matured over several years of use have not yet made it to the fledgling system.
I live in hope that some of the features that made Nine a good system, make it to Panther, we shall see...
Rod Rod Wynne-Powell
On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 02:28 pm, Alex Ray wrote:
They would probably argue that's what the Dock is for! (and more).
Alex Ray
I hope that Apple will put the functionality of App Switcher back, but while I still have to have Classic at least here is one feature I have not lost completely
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