Way back in the mid '90s, there was some double click tool that simply felt like the holy grail to me.
You double clicked or option clicked on the title of a window and it would turn that window into the "floating windoid" title bar only. We took this model and made it so that when you collapsed a window in that manner, it moved the tiny title bar up below the last one you collapsed. When restored, it resumed its previous position. This way, you could see all of of your windows and hide and retrieve them in an instant. And they only took up a small and organized portion of the screen when collapsed. I loved it. I was simple, fast, organized and remembered how you positioned things previously. On Jan 11, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Dave wrote: > >> On 9 Jan 2016, at 22:19, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote: >> >> In complex apps (e.g. CAD apps, IDEs) a given document has many auxiliary >> windows. The trend in UI at Apple has been to consolidate these into panes >> in a single window. I've always preferred separate windows (e.g. separate >> toolbar window). > > Yes, separate windows definitely much better IMO. I think the trend towards > one big window has been adopted on the Mac because of the iPad/iOS. This is > silly IMO because iPad’s only have one screen but on a Mac you can have lots > of screens - I have 4 on my main development machine and having one big > window is a real pain. I would have thought that for CAD/CAM and Photoshop > type apps, most people would be using multiple monitors these days, so I’d go > with the separate windows based on that assumption with maybe the option to > dock them…… > > Cheers > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
