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Re:Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP l... by blacksmith_tb on Monday December 13, 2021 @03:55PM (#29544527)
It would be interesting to have some insight into how much UX / UI goes into macOS and Windows releases, especially if things are tested with representative, non-technical users and then sent back for changes. My cynical take aligns with yours, for every clever small touch there seems to be a half-dozen awkward design choices to work around.
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Re:Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP l... by SllX on Monday December 13, 2021 @04:28PM (#29544897)
Not enough if the Dock is any measure. It’s been bad for over 20 years and in some ways still a downgrade from the NeXTSTEP Dock (and to be fair, in some ways an upgrade since it has a few tricks now the NeXTSTEP Dock didn’t).

Same for the Finder. There’s been ample opportunity to revisit the original compromises made, fix some of the behavioral and consistency issues and just not touch it ever again. That, hasn’t happened. To be fair, Spotlight and Quick Look are major feature upgrades over the initial Mac OS X Finder, but pretty much all of the criticisms from 20 years ago, well documented by John Siracusa at one point, stand. Also nobody wants .DS_Store files on their servers and it’s probably worth revisiting that decision.

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Re:Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP l... by GekkePrutser on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:17PM (#29546038)
Ugh yeah those DS_Store files... But Windows has a similar equivalent now. You can turn it off by the way with a defaults command.

And yeah I miss the in depth reviews from John Siracusa every year.

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Re:Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP l... by SllX on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:23PM (#29546598)
Problem is turning them off kills your window positioning and view options which are pretty important to me. So I want them, but I don’t want them, but rather an alternative to what they do for me that doesn’t scatter files to every single disk or server I look at in the Finder.
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