Tom Hughes wrote: > Richard Fairhurst wrote: >> IMX it's a platform thing. Windows people genuinely do run their web >> browser, and most things, full screen. Hence the aberration that is "MDI". >> Us Mac people, by contrast, usually have about 57 different non-full screen >> windows overlapping - that's why Apple came up with Expose to help us find >> them all. I dunno what Linux people do - whatever RMS has decreed is in the >> best interests of some weird notion of "freedom", I guess. <runs away very >> very fast> > > That's a bit pot calling the kettle black though - back when I was > using Macs, which admittedly was quite a long time ago
Goodness me, it must have been - Macs have been like this since at least System 7 in 1991ish... Seriously, though, it does depend on the app. Right now I've got open TextEdit, Safari, TextMate, Cyberduck, Colloquy, Mail, Preview, and Terminal: the only ones I can imagine making any sense full-screen are possibly Mail and Terminal, and I don't think I've ever used either as such. OS X, and System 7/8/9 before it, makes much heavier use of drag-and-drop between apps than Windows has ever done, and users are expected to think that way. (The classic Finder didn't have copy and paste for files, for example; it was assumed you'd drag from one window to another. It's only in OS X as a "borrowing" of the Windows paradigm.) But Word and Excel borrow so much from Windows that they can make more sense full-screen, and the Adobe stuff is as ever a law unto itself - so many bloody floating palettes, one screen sometimes doesn't feel enough. (http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/ is brilliantly observed and puts all our parody blogs to shame.) And even Apple have been getting a bit too full-screen for my liking with some of the iLife apps. Where was I? cheers Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
