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Originally posted by d000hg View PostI like Win+Tab, think only only on Vista/W7 though.
I've been mystified for years why people who have window capable apps run all of them in full screen, they then find my habit of windowing equally strange. Typically I'm referring to or copy pasting info in the other windows while producing the doc in the main one.
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Originally posted by Ruprect View PostWhere's the pron?
These are the predecessors to Apple's Spaces. Pron sat on another desktop.
Oh, and on a colleague's disk, which we could all see
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Where's the pron?
Originally posted by Sysman View PostI think I stopped using maximised windows back in the Win95 era. I stuffed my laptop with 12 MB RAM and got ised to running more than one app at a time. My next system was an NT box with a 17" screen and I certainly was multitasking with one than one window visible by then.
And shortly after that I was running X11 windows on a huge DEC screen, the one whose packaging recommended that 2 people lift the thing. I never ever maximised anything on that. Of course even back in the 1990s I was using the Common Desktop Environment (CDE, aka New Desktop), and you can see from the following screenshot why you didn't need anything maximised:
In fact when folks first started raving about tabbed browsers I couldn't see what the fuss was about, because I was used to running multiple browser windows all along.
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He was right about OS X upgrades bringing better performance.
He only went back to Tiger (10.4), but I started with 10.1 and every upgrade since then has brought improved performance on the same machine over the previous version.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostPersonally I stopped using full-screen on Windows as well once monitors got beyond 1024*768 - a window beyond that size is usually too big to use comfortably for applications like text editing or web browsing. Obviously there are exceptions like Eclipse or Visual Studio, but their UI is a number of windows within one window anyway, so the main window is more like a replacement desktop. I'm on Windows at ClientCorp at the moment, and not one of the dozen or so apps I have open has a maximised window.
And shortly after that I was running X11 windows on a huge DEC screen, the one whose packaging recommended that 2 people lift the thing. I never ever maximised anything on that. Of course even back in the 1990s I was using the Common Desktop Environment (CDE, aka New Desktop), and you can see from the following screenshot why you didn't need anything maximised:
In fact when folks first started raving about tabbed browsers I couldn't see what the fuss was about, because I was used to running multiple browser windows all along.
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View Postpress alt, tap the tab button and then hold the alt button
in windows 7 that keeps a grid of the current applications open, its not difficult
And there are applications which will give the same functionality as Expose
Expose has been part of MacOS since 2003. No need for anything else.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostFYI, Mac users also call it "Alt+Tab" and always have, although the UI looks nicer than it does on Windows. The new stuff does - wait for it - new stuff, while old stuff like Alt+Tab continues to do what it always did.
The only thing in it that I thought looked interesting was the "versions" thing.
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Originally posted by DaveB View PostTechnically it's Cmd-Tab but the point stands.
Expose is my favorite widget. One mouse click, or drag the pointer to a corner of the scren and it instantly tiles every window I have open so I can easily find the one I want. Click on it and it becomes the active window. Far easier than trying to alt-tab through a list of open applications to find the one you want or hunting for it on a crowded taskbar or dock.
in windows 7 that keeps a grid of the current applications open, its not difficult
And there are applications which will give the same functionality as Expose
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Originally posted by doodab View PostWhat did it do before then?
Personally I stopped using full-screen on Windows as well once monitors got beyond 1024*768 - a window beyond that size is usually too big to use comfortably for applications like text editing or web browsing. Obviously there are exceptions like Eclipse or Visual Studio, but their UI is a number of windows within one window anyway, so the main window is more like a replacement desktop. I'm on Windows at ClientCorp at the moment, and not one of the dozen or so apps I have open has a maximised window.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostFYI, Mac users also call it "Alt+Tab" and always have, although the UI looks nicer than it does on Windows. The new stuff does - wait for it - new stuff, while old stuff like Alt+Tab continues to do what it always did.
Expose is my favorite widget. One mouse click, or drag the pointer to a corner of the scren and it instantly tiles every window I have open so I can easily find the one I want. Click on it and it becomes the active window. Far easier than trying to alt-tab through a list of open applications to find the one you want or hunting for it on a crowded taskbar or dock.
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Originally posted by doodab View PostThey seem to have invented some sort of crazy finger dancing code to do what windows users call "Alt+Tab". Apparently this is better because it's different and the new is to be worshiped unquestioningly.
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Originally posted by doodab View PostThey seem to have invented some sort of crazy finger dancing code to do what windows users call "Alt+Tab". Apparently this is better because it's different and the new is to be worshiped unquestioningly.
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