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To: Doren who wrote (39127)	1/17/2004 10:20:16 AM
From: Dave	Respond to of 213182

I just don't think you guys are going to convince me that Apple is perfect. No problem; I don't think anybody was going to try to convince you of that. Apple consistently lapses into "Hear no evil" periods where it refuses to listen to it's users. Such as when? People had some criticisms of the dock, and Apple's Human Interface engineers took them into consideration and addressed the ones that they found valid. Now you can move the dock from the bottom of the display onto the right of left side, and use hierarchical folders in the dock. You had a number of other criticisms about the dock, but frankly I have found each of them to be unimportant; the annoyances you perceived simply aren't a problem in practice, and the features they allow outweigh any inconvenience that some users might see. If there are really any users in the world who haven't upgraded to X because they liked the godawful control strip better than the dock, they are better off with Windows, where they can get such interface kludges in the very newest revisions of the OS. Dave Oh and by the way I don't see any problem at all with the trash can in the dock. It sits near the lower right corner of the screen, as it did in OS 9, but now you can auto-hide it, and you can drag items into the trash when any app is open without having first to reorganize the windows in all of your apps so that you can see the trash. I can't think of a single way that the trash is WORSE in X, and many ways in which it's better.

To: Doren who wrote (39127)	1/17/2004 5:06:24 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

>>Here's another hated item I wasn't thinking about when I made my list of objections. The bouncing Icons. That one is REALLY annoying. And to my knowledge there is no preference to turn the damn thing off.<< Doren - In Dock Preferences, un-check "Animate opening applications." Turns off the bouncing icons. - Allen

To: Doren who wrote (39127)	1/18/2004 1:41:08 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Here's another hated item I wasn't thinking about when I made my list of objections. The bouncing Icons. That one is REALLY annoying i love 'em. with a million things going on at the same time, it's the best compromise i've seen between asking for attention and demanding my attention by popping up windows without my permission. Statistics prove things objectively when it comes to good interface design statistics "prove" anything you want them to prove. if you really don't like them, just turn 'em off.