Re: Clicking Dock Icon creates a new window
Re: Clicking Dock Icon creates a new window
- Subject: Re: Clicking Dock Icon creates a new window
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:54:38 -0600
On Mar 13, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
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Incidentally...
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On Saturday, Mar 13, 2004, at 19:02 Europe/Prague, Charles Srstka
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wrote:
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> If there
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> are no unminimized windows when the user clicks the Dock icon, the
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> last
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> minimized window should be expanded and made active.
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... the whole thing is a nightmare, but this is the biggest PITA of
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them all. Heck, if I wanted a minimized window to expand, I would
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click *it* in the dock, would I not?!? Clicking the app icon on the
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other hand I say I do *not* want *any* window (most probably, in
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99.99% of cases, since my next action would be Open... or Open
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Recent).
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Well, sorry, I know this mail solves nothing; I just had to let some
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steam out, since this completely du.., ahem, stup..., ahem, not
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thoroughly thought through behaviour makes me mad many times every
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day.
You haven't ever watched a lab full of newbies that are trying to use a
computer, have you? Let me assure you that when they click on a Dock
icon and perceive nothing to happen (they will not notice the menu bar
changing - they never do), the reaction is going to be complete
confusion, usually followed by a desire to work on a Windows machine
where at least something will happen (a window coming up) when they
click on an icon!
This rule is not dumb or stupid, and it certainly isn't a "nightmare."
In addition to being annoying, your hyperbole is off-topic - it doesn't
matter whether you *like* the rule, that's the rule *is*, and that is
the way a Mac OS X app should be written. You and I don't write the OS
(thank God), so we don't get to write the rules. Apple writes the
rules, and in this case if you understand the reasoning behind the
rule, you will see that it is very well thought-out, and indeed
necessary.
Charles
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