On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:32:17 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> 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?

I love tabbed browsing. Then I have more space on the taskbar for all my  
other windows.

When anyone else uses my PC at work they keep closing IE when they only  
wanted to close a tab ;->

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

"The spoon is not real"

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