Failing Dock (was Re: Stacks - a part of the Finder or just the Dock?)

[Ashley Aitken]

On 20/06/2007, at 3:01 PM, mmalc Crawford wrote:

> On Jun 19, 2007, at 11:25 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>
>>> The PR1 "dock" had all three -- clicking the icon on the far left  
>>> of the dock showed all the running apps, and (IIRC) clicking the  
>>> icon on the right showed the windows.
>> Ok, thanks for making that clear (please ignore my almost  
>> simultaneous - at least from where I am sitting - post asking just  
>> that question).
>> I suggest again though that it may not work that well having  
>> running applications and minimised windows in tabs.  One generally  
>> wants them to be "visible"  and directly accessible.
>>
> The Apps and Documents icons were on every tab.

That's a (little) bit better.

Perhaps having all the running apps and minimised windows themselves  
on every tab may be a better solution, but I think the separating  
them (logically or physically) from the tabs would be better.

> Serendipitously I just found:
> 	<http://homepage.mac.com/mmalc/NS4beta.mp4>
> I'm not sure who to credit for that one (the previous screen grab  
> was one I had from a UK NEXTSTEP User Group meeting a long time ago).

Great video, thanks.

It's clear to see how NeXT/Apple's ideas have evolved from this.

>>> I think there was some other convenience as well, such as  
>>> continuing to press an app icon displayed the associated windows...
>> I've always been surprised that Apple's Dock doesn't do that - it  
>> seems to me like an obvious feature to have.
>>
> It already does what I meant (you see a list of associated windows  
> in a menu) so I wasn't sufficiently clear -- what would you like it  
> to do?

Yes, sorry, my confusion, I don't use the Apple Dock regularly now  
(and when I quickly looked I couldn't seen any windows listed ... I  
guess because there weren't any open or minimised).  As you say,  
Apple's Dock does include a list of the windows / documents.

DragThing doesn't.

Cheers,
Ashley.


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