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Agreed on both. And with a finally-useful Spotlight in Leopard, I'm finding myself using spotlight rather than the dock to launch apps, so the dock is becoming more of a what's running? bar (mostly useful for dock badges, TBH) rather than a launcher. Does this mean you have to type the app's name in for Spotty to find it? <sweetlyHow does this differ from a command line?</sweetly
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I loved Windowshade the instant I met it and frequently suffer a pang of sadness at its absence. So your claim that it's a bad UI idea is clearly wrong. If a single person 'loving' it is the measure of good UI design, then surely Clippy (or Bob) would count as good UI design? I don't think I met anyone that liked the paperclip! A good outlet for frustration caused by having to use Windows. I always told him to bugger off.
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[snip] Not that the machines of the time really ever kept up with the mouse anyway! I've got a Mac 512Ke. It keeps up with mouse movement no worries. The very early Macs had the mouse trip a CPU interrupt directly in case you're wondering how they managed it. I know exactly how the macs did it, pretty well the same way everything did, but i was refering to the suns workstations. If you meant Suns only, why refer to `machines' in the general sense as you did? A mistake. Although as pointed out - the mac cursor fell apart when reading the disk anyway. Not really, no. It could get a little jerky sometimes, but it was still perfectly usable. Paul
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[snip] Not that the machines of the time really ever kept up with the mouse anyway! I've got a Mac 512Ke. It keeps up with mouse movement no worries. The very early Macs had the mouse trip a CPU interrupt directly in case you're wondering how they managed it. I know exactly how the macs did it, pretty well the same way everything did, but i was refering to the suns workstations. If you meant Suns only, why refer to `machines' in the general sense as you did? A mistake. Although as pointed out - the mac cursor fell apart when reading the disk anyway. Not really, no. It could get a little jerky sometimes, but it was still perfectly usable. It got jerky to the point that you couldn't use it to any reasonable level. At least all the macs with floppies I used did, maybe yours was better.
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[snip] Agreed on both. And with a finally-useful Spotlight in Leopard, I'm finding myself using spotlight rather than the dock to launch apps, so the dock is becoming more of a what's running? bar (mostly useful for dock badges, TBH) rather than a launcher. Does this mean you have to type the app's name in for Spotty to find it? <sweetlyHow does this differ from a command line?</sweetly In a terminal, to launch Firefox, I have to type open -a Firefox & In Spotlight, since Firefox is the top hit, all I have to type is f<return (Yes, I could alias `f' to launch Firefox from a terminal, but that would be silly, and I'd still have to switch to a terminal if I wasn't using one already. Spotlight is available from anywhere simply by pressing Cmd-Space.) b.
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[snip] Not that the machines of the time really ever kept up with the mouse anyway! I've got a Mac 512Ke. It keeps up with mouse movement no worries. The very early Macs had the mouse trip a CPU interrupt directly in case you're wondering how they managed it. I know exactly how the macs did it, pretty well the same way everything did, but i was refering to the suns workstations. If you meant Suns only, why refer to `machines' in the general sense as you did? A mistake. Although as pointed out - the mac cursor fell apart when reading the disk anyway. Not really, no. It could get a little jerky sometimes, but it was still perfectly usable. It got jerky to the point that you couldn't use it to any reasonable level. At least all the macs with floppies I used did, maybe yours was better. It was worse on the original (1984) 400k floppies, not so bad on the 800k drives (1985 onwards), and not really noticeable on the 1.44 MB Superdrives (1987 ?). I don't recall the mouse ever being unusable with any of them, although I seem to remember that formatting a floppy was the worst for mouse jerkiness. Paul
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