Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th Jun 2006 22:28 UTC
Last week's column was basically a rant about things that bothered me about Ubuntu's GNOME/Linux combination. Besides the usual 'I do not experience the problems you have, so you must be an anti-GNOME troll!' and of the course the ever-present 'How on earth can you complain about Free software!', it did what is was supposed to do: bring problems under developer's direct attention (for instance, Evolution's UI maintainer emailed me, asking for more clarification). Now it's Apple's turn. Here is a list of problems I find the most annoying about Apple's Mac/MacOS.
Permalink for comment 132364
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:
2005-07-06
I generally agree with your sentiments, except for the:
Instead of having a separate section for taskbar entries and application launchers, the dock has one section which aims to be both, but obviously sucks at doing so.
I actually like this setup. It goes some way towards removing the restriction between running apps and non-running apps, and makes it so there is a one-stop place to get to your commonly used apps. I've got pretty much everything I ever use sitting on the dock, and so if I want to go to Safari, I just click on the Safari icon. I don't have to care whether its already running or not --- I want Safari, I get Safari.
It also helps tie down the idea that an application is an instance. In Winows, you get the metaphor that an application is something that can be instantiated, since it can appear multiple times in the taskbar. I think this metaphor unnecessarily exposes an implementation detail to the user.