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Left-Field Marshal Eric S. Smith (esmith@ivory.trentu.ca) wrote:
: In article <3v6kj3$q1l@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, 
: beverins@aol.com (B E Verins) writes:

: >A dream OS would contain all of the best parts of all of the OS's out
: >there, while doing away with crap. An example:
: >
: >Combine these ingredients and stir well for an unbeatable OS:

: [snip]

: >Mac "look & feel"

: Hey, I thought you said "doing away with crap".  The Mac UI makes me absolutely
: *buggy* in mere minutes.  Things I hate:

: 1.  Menus vanish when you release the mouse button.  I prefer the Windoze
: approach, "click and stay".  Naturally, this would also suck, if it weren't for
: the fact that both "click and stay" and "click and drag" methods are allowed.

I prefer the Mac/Ami method.

: 2.  To eject a floppy (no eject button, keeeeripes), you have to drag it to the
: trash.  EVERYONE I ever explained that too has looked at me like I plaintively
: and said "But won't that erase everything on the disk?".  Also, chosing the
: more logical "Eject Disk" option in the Special menu results in an evil ghost
: disk from hell on your desktop.

I won't disagree on that point.

: 3.  I close all of the windows related to a running app, and it remains
: running?  Hello, when all the windows are closed, think maybe I MIGHT be done
: with it?  If I wnated the damned thing around, I'd just MINIMIZE it, wouldn't I
: (not under Mac, I wouldn't...couldn't).

Of course you have to quit an app to keep it from running. That's just 
logical.

: Also, I just don't like the way it looks.  I don't like the typeface used on
: the title bars of the windows, I don't like the one, constantly morphing menu
: bar right at the top, I don't like it that the scroll bars just ghost when they
: aren't needed, instead of vanishing and freeing up window space, and I don't
: like the very limited use of colour (It's a GUI, so make it more customizable
: and pretty, for pity's sake).

I *hate* the scrolling bars of Mac and Windooze. The dragging bits are 
always the same size, instead of keeping proportional to the contents of 
the window, as on the Amiga.

: Okay, I'll stop now.  The only UI I hate more than the Mac's is the nasty, lo
: res, 4 colour Amiga one.  Looked like a CGA nightmare--but I suspect that
: nicer forms of it exist, and that I was just looking at primitive machines. 

I suspect you've not seen any Amiga since Workbench 1.3, take a look at 
Workbench 3.1, especially with Magic Workbench, it's marvellous.
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