Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:21 UTC
Some time ago we featured an interview with an... official Mac OS X switcher. A year later, we found another Apple switcher, James Dorn ("noviteo" for his friends) and we ask him a few details upon the switch. Especially with the recent price cuts on Apple hardware and the Mac OS X Panther release last week, being a switcher becomes "cool" all over again.
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About the dock. I don't know too much about how OS X does it, my experience with docks is mostly in Linux.
Heh heh heh...
Linux docks invariably follow the NeXT model, which keeps a very strong spatial connection between a window and its icon. I suppose the Dock in OS X is a bit different, because it tries to be a shortcut bar at the same time, as well as doing all sorts of resizing and moving around and whatnot. NeXT style docks don't do that.
I was very interested in NeXT... just before Jobs through out the baby with the bath water. I was too late and NeXT was too costly even before then. Thanks for the notes about the differences of the Dock in the Linux. I would hope that they don't begin to copy the behaviors of the Dock in OSX. Sadly, most alternative OSes seem to only copy the (often bad) ideas of the commercial OSes on the top of the food chain.