The "X", "-", and "+" inside the "traffic lights." should guide the user sufficiently. Because when your mouse approaches your target area (i.e. the titlebar) the signs pop up. But one the other hand, I agree to a lesser extent that this will confuse the user. Once this sticks in one's memory, it will be easy to use. I mean, you use the windows all the time. Hopefully this won't be the Human Interface Guidelines for all of the other items. Bleck!, we're talking Apple here..:), so I'm confident that they will manage to do the proper work. Perhaps thinking that this will affect all other items is a bit paranoid. Just My Opinion -
Give Apple time to moderate their GUI and do research on users feedbacks etc., before you rant about the final version (remember that this is a very limited preview). Narrow-mindedness does not do any good whatsoever. Anyway, I think that this should appeal to more Linux, Unix, etc. people that embrace such technologies (*nix). Take for example John Carmack and Graeme Devine, those ubergeeks really know what they are talking about...and they don't seem to convict it on circumstantial evidences. So wait and see what those GUI people at Apple have succeeded to implement when it's in GM state. I don't really think that M$ or GNU-GNOME-or-alike can come up with something more elegant..
Can anyone tell me some good places to look after info about MacOS X. I know about www.stone.com - www.stepwise.com & the usual Mac news/rumor sites- but I want something that explains more in depth. It's not that the mentioned web sites are badly written or so, it's just seems like there is not much stuff to read about this topic.
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I totally agree with you! /JetEye
Good point and I, actually, enjoy seeing that someone has done their homework...:) ?JetEye
Wah.Wah.Wah, I want the panacea of OS'. Give US a breake. This is totally wasting time on idiots that can't get it!! 98, yeah right!
The "X", "-", and "+" inside the "traffic lights." should guide the user sufficiently. Because when your mouse approaches your target area (i.e. the titlebar) the signs pop up. But one the other hand, I agree to a lesser extent that this will confuse the user. Once this sticks in one's memory, it will be easy to use. I mean, you use the windows all the time. Hopefully this won't be the Human Interface Guidelines for all of the other items. Bleck!, we're talking Apple here..:), so I'm confident that they will manage to do the proper work. Perhaps thinking that this will affect all other items is a bit paranoid. Just My Opinion -
Give Apple time to moderate their GUI and do research on users feedbacks etc., before you rant about the final version (remember that this is a very limited preview). Narrow-mindedness does not do any good whatsoever. Anyway, I think that this should appeal to more Linux, Unix, etc. people that embrace such technologies (*nix). Take for example John Carmack and Graeme Devine, those ubergeeks really know what they are talking about...and they don't seem to convict it on circumstantial evidences. So wait and see what those GUI people at Apple have succeeded to implement when it's in GM state. I don't really think that M$ or GNU-GNOME-or-alike can come up with something more elegant..
Ok. Tell me one thing; who is then the leader in GUI? ./
Can anyone tell me some good places to look after info about MacOS X. I know about www.stone.com - www.stepwise.com & the usual Mac news/rumor sites- but I want something that explains more in depth. It's not that the mentioned web sites are badly written or so, it's just seems like there is not much stuff to read about this topic.