I know you meant dialog boxes, but dialog boxes have that name for a reason. They usually tell the user something and then ask for a response. The problem is

I know you meant dialog boxes, but dialog boxes have that name for a reason. They usually tell the user something and then ask for a response. The problem is that the computer doesn't really understand what it's asking about, it's just a pre-recorded message. Dialog boxes on a computer are the equivalent of the automated phone menus and just as frustrating (although those are getting better with speech recognition). I have some ideas that I think are pretty good but I'm not an expert coder so progress is slow. I think windows is mostly the right idea, but the current implementations are crammed with wastefulness of all types such as application windows that take up unnecessary screen space with menus and buttons that are rarely used (this is getting better, but in my opinion the idea of 'applications' is part of the problem). Another thing is window resizing -- full user control over this is pointless, and a lot of time is wasted resizing windows so you can see things the way you want. Various X Windows versions try to fix this with smart tiling and so on, but I've yet to find one that's really satisfactory. Another sad thing is that even simple drag and drop, which has been around for ages, is poorly implemented in the majority of programs, if at all.