Re:How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name
by dpkonofa on Saturday November 14, 2015 @04:12PM
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Why is that a bad feature? It seems pretty logical to me that clicking "Option" would give you a variation (another Option) of the chosen operation. In that case, clicking the green "full screen" button gives you a "full screen" on the current desktop instead of creating a new one.
Because requiring the use of two hands on two different input devices to access a feature that is not advertised to the user in any fashion is completely and utterly unintuitive.
Two hands? The alt-button is 3cm from my trackpad.
Re:How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name
by PhasmaFelis on Saturday November 14, 2015 @07:27PM
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The first is a power user function that few people will want, and those who do will know to go looking for it. The second is a function with common utility, arguably more utility than the default use of that button,* and most people who would want to use it will never know it exists.
*Especially on recent versions of MacOS, where fullscreening an app moves it to a different desktop.
Example of a good feature to hide behind "hold option": removing the "..." from "Sleep...", "Shut Down...", etc. in the apple menu, meaning that selecting them won't prompt you before executing the command.
Example of a bad feature to hide behind "hold option": clicking the green window button to maximize instead of going to full screen.