Tog Takes on Mac OS X 10.3

Rick Zeman writes "Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini, founder of Apple's Human Interface Group years ago, has finally pointed his electrons to Mac OS X 10.3. He's been dormant for while, and hasn't said anything since the early days of Mac OS X. His new articles include 'Panther: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly' and 'The Top Nine Reasons why the Dock Sucks,' all coming from A Guy Who Knows."

Re:Finder

[oscast]

When did Microsoft get a finder Window?

Slashdotted...

[signingis]

That's what you get for talking bad about OS X. Punkass.

Re:They should've never been let go

[pheared]

But how can you argue with lickability. Adept tongues are valuable assets.

Re:Mirror

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately, now you appear to be slashdotted. Smooth.

Hmmmm

[NDPTAL85]

So I take it the Mac community FORGOT to send Tog the memo that his views on UI design are wholly irrelevant and have been for some years now?

Re:If the dock had been introduced back in the day

[phrasebook]

Sigh. System 6! I love you!

Re:The Dock Sucking, and how it doesn't suck.

[Phrogz]

That's the thing about HCI people. They're part of an entire field devoted to telling you that your opinion is wrong.

Or, as the joke goes:

"Give an HCI person a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach an HCI person how to fish, and he'll give you a Visio diagram detailing why your way is all wrong." :)

Re:Two simple changes to improve the dock

[Bingo Foo]

making the dock affect the actual item makes it dangerously powerful.

Not to mention the fact that if the critics were to succeed and actually strike down the Dock, it would become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

Re:Finder and it's big problem

[misterjingles]

It is pretty sad that you call yourself a "power user" but you can't even figure out how to turn off the Finder's hiding of files.

Re:Two simple changes to improve the dock

[prockcore]

Well, that was sure intuitive!

Re:Finder

[theWrkncacnter]

I think the main reason is because steve thinks it looks cool.

Feeding Frenzy

[Anonymous Coward]

It's cool to see Mac zealots turning on each other!

Re:If the dock had been introduced back in the day

[shotfeel]

Yeah, you should have heard me when Sys 7 came out!

What the heck do we need all this eye candy for? 3D buttons just soak up CPU cycles and don't do anything useful...

Re:Finder

[Anonymous Coward]

Or - if the sidebar is too narrow for your taste, you can make it larger by dragging the bottom lip all the way up past your nose, eyes, blocking your vision, accross your forehead, up and over, to the small of your spine. (This handy tip came from http://www.maxishits.com)