On 21/04/2010 2:32 PM, Invisible wrote:
> I loved the Amiga, but I will grant you one thing: It wasn't so great at
> switching between windows. Each window had two "gadgets" (what we today
> call widgets), one to raise and one to lower the window. Today you just
> click on a window and it comes to the front, but the Amiga did not do
> this. You had to click the gadget.
>
> An obvious consequence of this is that if the gadget was hidden behind
> something else, it was impossible to bring the window to the front. Or
> rather, you'd have to lower whatever was obscuring it. Suffice it to say
> that you could occasionally get into tricky situations where a window
> would get "lost" and it was quite hard to bring it to the front.
>
> Initially I hated Windoze. Mostly because even on a PC with hardware far
> in advance of what the Amiga has, Windows was *vastly* slower. (Today of
> course, Windows is, as far as I can tell, the most useable OS available,
> whether you like it or not. Linux is a nice idea, but sadly it's too
> hard to use.)
>
> One innotation Windows did add was the Task Bar. With this handy gizmo,
> you can immediately access any window you have open. And then there's
> the Alt+Tab shortcut - invaluable on crappy laptops that don't have a
> real mouse.
>
> Today it seems to be all the rage for applications to have "tabbed"
> interfaces - most obviously web browsers, but also many other
> applications. And that raises a bit of a problem. If I'm trying to look
> at several things at once, and I want to switch between them,
> *sometimes* I need to click something on the taskbar at the bottom of
> the screen, and *sometimes* I need to click something on the tabbar at
> the top of the screen. And my primitive little monkey brain is too
> simple to get this right most of the time.
>
> Does anybody else have this problem? Or is it just me?

No it is just you ;-)


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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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