Yes, it would be nice to have a url handler. Regarding anon’s theming wishes: why is the ability to theme aqua officially so important? what is wrong about doing it the way we do now- unofficially? :/ Not something we are used to as Mac users- this is like using IE 5 on Win98 on a 400 mhz P3. It was mana from heaven in 10.2.x, but in 10.3- even with the new update- on the iBook G3/500 we have at home, Safari is sucking balls. The only real complaint I have about Panther is the way Safari performs under it.
A major idea of the Mac is simplicity and too many preferences defeats that – sensible defaults are what we need, and I think we already pretty much have them. A little bit of customizability to the interface is a good thing, but the more fine-grained and wacky stuff should be left to the third-party preference panels. Hopefully this situation will be stabilizing soon. I’ve heard rumors that the GUI inconsistencies in OS X are the cause of the Classic Mac and NeXT people inside Apple battling it out. I’m not sure if it belongs on the Mac, or at least if it does, I would like to see it stay “under the surface” and not enabled by default, or maybe only available from the shell. We’ll have to see what Apple decides to do about that.Ĭase sensitivity is kind of the bane of casual computer users everywhere. But the author is right about the Dock not scaling well. A pretty annoying thing to be doing repeatedly. A larger point is that trays seem bit like the concept of “stacks” in XP which I find frustrating – in order to find the window you need, first you have to think of the app that it’s a part of, then you have to find that, then you have to find the specific window you’re looking for.
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The Dock suggestion involving trays is interesting, but there would need to be some kind of symbolization somehow as to which dock icons have windows associated with them. Virtual desktops for example, great for power users, but for casual users, more like “Oh shit, what happened, everything just disappeared!!!” Sure, it could be made a preference, but when the Mac geek administering the Macs in the university computer lab turns it on on all the machines because he likes it, the non-Mac geeks will sit down at them with an open mind and get frustrated thinking “wtf is this, argh, I hate Macs.” Above all, the Mac needs to be inviting and welcoming to non Mac users, because they are its future. Some of the suggestions are good (such as better iLife integration) but others are kind of counter to the way the Mac is supposed to be (or has historically been). This article seems to have been written from the more computer-enthusiast standpoint.
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