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- From: jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey)
- Subject: Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
- Message-ID: <Bz5uwI.LJ5@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec7.163815.5297@cs.utwente.nl> <1992Dec9.015009.4200@global.hacktic.nl> <1992Dec10.034521.14248@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <Bz32yE.6KK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:17:05 GMT
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- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
-
- >At least in Windows I don't have to dig through six layers of folders
- >just to launch an app. Every Mac power user I know has to have some
- >kind of workaround (aliases - try explaining those to a novice -
- >launchers, weird inits that stick things under the Apple menu, you
- >name it).
-
- In general you should be launching from a document, then you don't
- care where the actual application is. Actually always launching
- the application is a holdover from less sophisticated shells. If you
- spent a little time unlearning bad habits and a little time learning
- the mac way of doing things this problem disappears.
-
- You also don't need any weird inits to stick things in the Apple menu,
- you only need system 7.
-
- > How about .....? Windows is simply
- >>to painful to use for many things.
-
- >So are Macs... what do you do when your numerous drive icons are
- >buried under a pile of windows? Shouldn't they have designed it to
- >pop the icons up to the top when you bring Finder to the fore-
- >ground? The Systems people have been relying too much on 10 year
- >old ergonomic studies for the desktop.
-
- Option click on the desktop. Useful if you have two few monitors and
- too many open applications. There also is a really useful freeware app
- called applicon that allows you to have an Icon for each open app and
- a hot spot to pull the Icons to the top.
-
-