Using the Macintosh Interface -- Night and Day
TaliesinSoft
by a MacBook Pro. As we were enjoying favorite beverages we noticed that we
had quite different styles of using the elements of the Macintosh interface.
We agreed that there was no right and wrong in regards to our different
approaches, but we were taken by the flexibility offered by the interface in
how differently two persons could use it.
The Desktop:
He: a fair number of icons in a non-geometric arrangement, positioned over
the Leopard "outer space" background.
Me: no icons at all, the background being a nature photograph.
The Dock....
He: a great many small icons stretched across the bottom of the screen.
Me: only a few large icons for just the currently active applications,
currently hidden documents, and the trash.
Application Launching....
He: either clicking in the dock or using a non-Apple furnished launching
application, Quicksilver.
Me: applications are launched via Spotlight.
Finder Windows....
He: column view.
Me: icon view with large icons.
Menubar....
He and Me: agreement here with almost the same set of menulets.
So in the end we both agreed that we each would have difficulty adopting the
other's preferences so we just clinked our glasses together and toasted Apple
for giving us such variant and great choices.
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James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... talies...@me.com
Ric
I always assumed that QS users (of which I am one, and cannot use a
Mac without it) don't have dock icons? If
Calum
> I always assumed that QS users (of which I am one, and cannot use a
> Mac without it) don't have dock icons?
You assume wrong. I still find it a lot quicker to use the dock to
launch the apps I use daily, and reserve QS for launching stuff that I'd
otherwise have to dig into my Applications folder for.
Tim McNamara
TaliesinSoft <talies...@me.com> wrote:
> Application Launching....
>
> He: either clicking in the dock or using a non-Apple furnished
> launching application, Quicksilver.
>
> Me: applications are launched via Spotlight.
I've dragged my Applications folder to the right side of the Dock, which
will spring open into a hierarchical menu. It's very handy.
TaliesinSoft
<timmcn-C7E56C....@news.iphouse.com>):
I tried that but gave it up in favor of the Cmd-Space three letters method
which uses Spotlight. Most of the time one letter would suffice but I got in
the habit of using three just in case, so that I wouldn't do such as launch
Preview when I wanted Pages, as Spotlight's adaptive memory favors the most
recently accessed application, folder, or document that contains the letters
entered after the Cmd-Space. I should add that I'm a good typist and adding
those additional letters takes a fraction of a second.
Michael Kallweitt
I tried that, too, but it wasn't practical for me, as I have too many apps
installed, and clicking on the dock icon would give me a long list where I'd
have to scroll up and down to find the applicaton I want. Spotlight is much
faster.
[f'up: comp.sys.mac.misc]
John Varela
(in article <timmcn-C7E56C....@news.iphouse.com>):
> In article <0001HW.C50EC3C0...@News.Individual.NET>,
I did that and put the Utility folder next to it.
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Carl Witthoft
John Varela <OLDl...@verizon.net> wrote:
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Me,too!
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