The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline

Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by ricksplat on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @07:23AM (#12164800)

I really liked the old nuanced "full size" behaviour. Unlike Windows "Maximize" it would only increase the window size just enough so that all its contents where visible. This was neat, and elegant, and really showed considered design as well as the OS taking an interest in what was "in" it's windows not just the displayable area of the screen. I thought the Ctrl-F fullscreen behaviour in Lion was perfectly fine. It was slightly dissonant with overall windowing system control but I thought that was fine - going to full-screen seems to me more of a system feature than an window manager feature (it subverts the window manager to a certain extent), but maybe I'm just getting old ...

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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by eddieh on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @10:43AM (#12165935)

I agree the old window zoom, as it was called, was the best. I know Windows user hate it, and so many of the recent changes seem to have been to placate Windows user complaints. I liked my Mac the way it was. We don't need to appeal to Windows users.

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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by WayneBro on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @11:12AM (#12166187)

People who really like Windows (including me) generally seem to dislike the full-screen button in OS X though, so how is that placating anyone?

Everywhere I look I find people saying that window management in Windows is miles ahead of OS X. Even from people who wouldn't want to use Windows. If Apple wanted to placate those people, they would make the green button maximize by default, get rid of that ghastly global menu bar, fix the bad keyboard acceleration, make the Dock even more like the taskbar and add window snapping among a few other things.

I'm hoping some day someone at Apple will see the light. It only took them twenty years to realize that letting users resize a window by any corner or edge is a good idea and that one-button mice were really not a good idea so maybe by 2036 it will all change.

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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by WWLink on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @04:36AM (#12171322)

In Windows everything really wants to take up the whole screen. If you drag a window near an edge, it'll try and maximize! If you double click, it maxmizes! If you click the button, it maximizes! Shoot, in Windows 8 they wanted everything to start in full screen with that modern UI.

As much as I love overlapping and reasonably sized windows and having many windows strewn about my very large monitor, I'll see a post on Reddit about how websites aren't designed to look good when maximized on a 21:9 monitor, and then I'll face palm. It's weird.

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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by leadingthenet on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @12:03PM (#12166570)

What's ghastly about the global menu bar? I think it's an amazing improvement over Windows.

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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by eddieh on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @01:48PM (#12167441)

All that stuff sounds awful, please stick to using Windows.

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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by WayneBro on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @12:04AM (#12170461)

Of course. Why wouldn't I?

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