From kde-usability  Tue Jul 30 22:23:42 2002
From: Gordon Tyler <gordon () doxxx ! net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:23:42 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: Direction of KDE default?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=102808243013568

On July 27, 2002 06:09 pm, Alistair Davidson wrote:
> On Saturday 27 July 2002 5:16 pm, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 July 2002 02:17, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > MacOSX doesn't mimick windows either and still is quite usable.
> >
> > I want to nominate this one for the Understatement of the Millennium
> > Award
> >
> > :)
>
> Well as I understand it the desktop environment bits of OSX are generally
> considered inferior to OS9. Apple do, on the whole, make usable systems,
> but it's important not to hero-worship them, or before we know it we'll
> have a centered panel that expands and moves all your icons when you run a
> program.

Actually, I've been using Mac OS X on an old PowerMac 9600 (sluggish but 
mostly useable) the last few days and I haven't found the Dock's behaviour 
that bad. New icons on the panel (i.e. started an app) bounce up and down so 
that you notice they've been added. And it even has keyboard switching 
between active applications similar to Windows/KDE/whatever using Cmd-Tab.

I'm having quite a lot of fun playing around with it. Although I must admit I 
haven't tried doing any serious work on it.

Ciao,
Gordon
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