Re:macOS Big Sur
by tobr on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:41PM
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It’s funny how there’s a borderline moral judgement about things like this. It’s as if having many files on your desktop, emails in your inbox, unnamed layers in photoshop, or open windows or tabs or apps or whatever would say something about your character. No, to the extent that these things are even a problem at all, that’s a consequence of a design that fails to take actual human factors into account.
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I was also going to draw parallels to the icons on the desktop. Hundreds of browser tabs open is the 2020 version of having hundreds of icons all crammed onto your Windows desktop.
> It’s as if having many files on your desktop, emails in your inbox
Not really. Desktop icons and email are persisted to non volatile storage.
Expecting windows and tabs to persist in the exact state you left them as if they were real world objects is just not how computers work.
That's not true, many applications have moved to the "constant save" model (and games too). For instance, you never ever save in Final Cut Pro anymore (I wish ProTools would go this route). There is no reason a browser can't persist your tab state, or your window state, window positions, etc to disk continually and always relaunch with the persisted state.