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Difficulty in identifying what your windows are.

Submitted by hoopla_punta on August 10, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

If you have alot of windows open (example in picture) it makes it very hard to identify what windows are what.

Of course you can use exposé, but there are sometimes you are having your mouse days and such.

And sometimes it can be a lil' nauseating.

And sometimes you don't want to expose just to check if the windows behind you is the one you want.

Make individual windows more distinguishable from each other.

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Discussion (14 comments)

hoopla_punta wrote on August 10, 2008, 5:29pm

Added new image attachment.

DPoint wrote on August 10, 2008, 8:34pm

The butty of MacOS UI is that it focuses one application at a time, and not do multi-tasking, which is confusing and reduces productivity. That is why you have the top menu bar.

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rdauster wrote on August 10, 2008, 11:19pm

Some options
- allow the user to colour the top of the application window, the same way one colours folders
- show the application logo on the top of the window.

John Lambo wrote on August 10, 2008, 11:41pm

use dock, window menu, cmd+tab

on screen: safari, ichat, calculator, font book, ical, mail, finder, preview

asphyxia8489 wrote on August 11, 2008, 12:39pm

Erm, just use Spaces???

Space 1: Safari, Mail
Space 2: Adium, iChat, Skype
Space 3: iTunes
Space 4: Torrent Client, VMWare Fusion, Other Applications

everything else, dump ontop of a random space until you've finished using it, then close it

hoopla_punta wrote on August 11, 2008, 4:32pm

I know about spaces, like i'm a noob...

Uncommon wrote on August 11, 2008, 7:39pm

So what's the proposed solution?

gianni wrote on August 11, 2008, 8:50pm

I think you may be trying to make OS X too much like windows? I don't even see this as an issue. How you use your computer is up to you, but it seems like your fighting OS X and how it's meant to be used.

bailey_ca wrote on August 12, 2008, 8:06am

Last time I checked, a bunch of similar-looking windows is called "consistency". What's your solution?

bailey_ca wrote on August 12, 2008, 8:07am

And "skinning" is not an option. It was fun when WinAmp did it, it's not fun when MS skins things to look like Aero in XP.

hoopla_punta wrote on August 14, 2008, 2:23pm

anyway can you find the active app???

abitgone wrote on August 21, 2008, 3:06am

That would be iChat.

.Chris wrote on May 13, 2009, 3:55pm

Hoopa loves windows. he also loves his ex that is dating me now...

hoopla_punta wrote on July 27, 2009, 4:57pm

.Chris is someone I have never met, he spells things wrongly and is dating an imaginary boyfriend. I have not had a relationship with a girlfriend/boyfriend b4.

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