Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Mar 2009 20:29 UTC
It's a bit of a slow newsday at the moment, so I figured we'd pass the time with something special. Let's take a look at some obscure and/or older user interfaces listed in ToastyTech's GUI gallery, and see if there are any interesting ideas that can be found in those old user interfaces that we would like to see in our modern user interfaces.
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How useful is it to manipulate icons of minimized windows on the desktop, though? What do you do with them other than click on them to restore them to view?
The main issue I have with this system is that the user must move aside non-minized windows until the minimized window icon is visible in order to restore the minimized window. That seems rather annoying compared to the taskbar, where you locate the right task visually and restore the window with a single click without any windows in the way. (If you have too many windows and the taskbar stacks, then you must click on the application button and then the right window, though.)
Also, if you have a lot of windows minimized, aren't you left with a rather cluttered desktop? It seems that as time goes on I have more and windows open on my desktop at any given time.
It is this too-many-windows open problem with which the desktops are grappling by means of taskbars, docks, and other means. The old desktops didn't really have this problem because of CPU limitations or RAM limitations or multi-tasking issues.
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding how CDE works, though. Please feel free to correct me. :-)