Aqua Taskforce

polycat33 wrote on December 16, 2008, 2:11am

Well, when you go to click a window to choose it to come to focus, it shows you the title of that window, keeping you from actually selecting it if it turns out it's the wrong one. I think it's probably best that it's another key to click instead of default for people who have a lot of windows open. If all of the windows had their titles on there (and not all titles stay within the box they're describing) it could get pretty messy and cluttered and defeat the purpose. Is it really that hard to press option?

jasper wrote on December 20, 2008, 11:23am

As polycat says it will Clutter how we use Expose. It's meant to give a visual representation, not one with loads of text. Also if you updated to recent versions of iTunes then you shouldn't have a problem seperating it from mail - iTunes will always have albumart somewhere. Also, iTunes has a green bar on top. And checkboxes on every line. And a play button. Actually, Mail and iTunes don't even use similar button styles!

No, this is really not a problem - and if you're not sure at all about two windows you can go over them to see wich one is right for you.

moole wrote on December 21, 2008, 1:20am

This was just about adding an option, no loss for you two, big gain for me... Anyhow, thanks for opinions.

MicrowaveDave wrote on December 24, 2008, 10:08am

Or Apple could just bring WindowShade back, then you can see all your window titles all the time and just double-click on the one you need without having to press F9 or use a hot-corner. With Expose it's also impossible to distinguish between ten windows all named 'Untitled' but with WindowShade you can put your windows in order so they are always in the same place without hiding the application, REDUCING clutter, not adding to it. Expose doesn't even display hidden or minimised windows, so you have to un-hide and un-minimise everything before using it, thereby INCREASING clutter. Expose sucks, I don't know anybody who uses it except salespeople at AppleCentre to demo Mac computers for the 'Wow..' factor. It looks cool but for streamlining productivity it's absolutely useless and slows people down.

jasper wrote on December 27, 2008, 8:54pm

MicroWaveDave, this is bullshit. Yet again you refer to something of the past that you preferred - something from the Platinum era. Good job!

Exposé is incredibly usefull and it isn't just a nice trick - if you're in graphic design, seeing your documents like this is incredibly usefull. Just squeeze the mouse and click on your window - easy. Why doesn't it show hidden windows? Because they're hidden. People hide windows for one reason - so they don't pop up anywhere untill you choose so. People minimize windows so they don't have to see them on their screen fully - but they're just as quickly accesible through the dock (yet another thing of the future that changed something and therefore requires a retool to look more like something from the Platinum-er! Nah, the dock is great).

But I can see why someone in IT doesn't use it - text documents and code always look the same. But that isn't Apple's fault, now is it? But don't comment on it just to suggest to look back, grab an ancient feature and retool it to work exactly like nostalgia tells you it does. Enjoii!

MicrowaveDave wrote on December 31, 2008, 5:11pm

"But I can see why someone in IT doesn't use it - text documents and code always look the same."
I really don't understand you at all. You say you understand my situation but simply don't care about my opinion. You offer no help or useful suggestions whatsoever, only criticism.

"But that isn't Apple's fault, now is it?"
Yes it is actually. If I pay money for a newer product I expect it to work better, not to have less features, slow things down and impede usability.

kelchm wrote on September 4, 2009, 11:27pm

Fixed in Snow Leopard.