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Friday, March 4. 2011

When friends asking me for the usability concept of MacOS X, i just say "Do the most obvious". I should follow the tip myself ... i just learned how you get the menu bar from one monitor to another in a multi monitor setup: Just moving the white bar in this window to the blue box representing the correct screen. To add insult to injury: It's even written in in the window ... but who reads documentation or help texts directly in the window

That's too obvious for a unixoid mind ...

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in Apple, English at 15:51 | Comments (7) | Trackback (1)

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And what do you use to connect two such huge displays to a presumed MacBook?

#1 cycloon on 2011-03-04 16:55 (Reply)

One display is obviously the display of the Notebook. The display to the right is connected via analog VGA and the other display uses an USB graphic card.

#1.1 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2011-03-04 17:52 (Reply)

'More-on' GUI's : isn't reading the text on a GUI a bit of an oxymoron?

Anyhow, you made me remember this famous quote :
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa, quoted in Linda Botts, "Loose Talk" (1980)
US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993)

source (1st Google) : http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/166.html (You've reached the oldest quotation site on the Web, established 1994)

For your perusal : http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html

#2 Michiel on 2011-03-04 20:35 (Reply)

Hi,

Apple's Human Interface Guidelines should be read not only by developers / UI designers for OS X platform - sometimes you understand why Apple's UI is the best - and a UNIX is under the hood. I love Solaris but I do not love Gnome or KDE, sorry guys... it's a different league... a combination of both..... woahhhh

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/XHIGIntro.html

Jogi

#3 Jogi (Homepage) on 2011-03-05 10:23 (Reply)

IMHO the centralized menu bar is the most unintuitive GUI design that Apple could ever think of.
I want my menus attached to the program that they belong to, not switched with each focus change in some remote location. This creates unnecessary mouse miles and confusion - especially if the program comes with button toolbars which (oh wonder!) stay within the program window instead of also being attached to the central menu bar.

Another pet peeve of mine is that the (x) only closes the window instead of the program.. which is contrary to any other OS on the market.

GNOME or KDE - well, meh. I dislike both. I'm still running with CDE on Solaris, and if it really is removed some day (as Sun were announcing since over one decade) I'll switch to xfce or Enlightenment.

#3.1 Woo (Homepage) on 2011-03-07 18:29 (Reply)

"That's too obvious for a unixoid mind". Er, OS X is Unix.

#4 Numpty on 2011-03-26 22:52 (Reply)

"That's too obvious for a unixoid mind". Er, OS X is Unix.

#5 Numpty on 2011-03-26 22:53 (Reply)

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