Why o why we cannot kill windows while shrinking them with Exposè ??!
The all-in-one view is just the perfect, most natural UI for performing clean-ups (it just feels like a shoot-them-all video-game to me), but Leopard still does not implement this, and adds a new source of potential mess instead (Spaces).
Exposè, the Dock (plus stacks), Spaces and Spotlight are all about ‘reaching things’, but they just don’t fit with each other, it seems to me that Mac OS is evolving into a set of diverging tools, the user first have to figure out which one is the best for the current task, then to remember tool-specific shortcuts and tricks …stressful!
QuickSilver and Witch (both freeware) implement fundamental UI design principles much better, and can be way more effective on this particular task.
Accessibility notice: the document structure also gets exported automatically into pdf ‘tags’, which are the items screen-readers use to let users navigate the document.This had been the first case of real-word open-source nirvana for me!
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