On the subject of GUI

[R.L. Grigg]

On May 1, 2008, at 8:34 PM, i.am.list.boy at gmail.com wrote:

>> They
>> seem to have missed class in GUI 101 when they tell you "dont use
>> foreground and background colors that are too similar". Not only is  
>> it
>> bad feng shui, it makes you squint.
>
>
> Am I a twit, or isn't it problematic making so many basic  
> applications' windows (iTunes//Finder/iCal/On&On) virtually  
> indistinguishable? Wouldn't it have made sense to give each app a  
> different tint to clarify which window was which?
>
> FWIW, I'm in Tiger, not Lep.
>
> I guess back in the old 9 days this wasn't as much of a problem  
> because I couldn't have too many apps open simultaneously.

Yeah, if you have many windows up its hard to tell them apart cuz they  
all look alike, short of sifting through them all. Expose is a half- 
baked workaround to the problem.

More GUI 101: Have you ever noticed that when you generate a new  
window it positions the new window right on top of another window? Or  
if I select a back window it completely occludes a newer one, and I  
have to go hunting to find it again. Why can't they autoposition  
windows so at least a part of them stay visible regardless of which  
one is in front? Then you wouldn't need Expose.

Russ