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"Windows are now inefficient and incompatible with modern productivity interfaces" What?! I have to agree with some of the other comments here - this is chang

"Windows are now inefficient and incompatible with modern productivity interfaces" What?! I have to agree with some of the other comments here - this is change for the sake of it, and the arguments against current-day desktop UIs seem weak at best, comprising mainly of opinion stated as fact.

crazygringo 7y ago
I think that quote is badly put, but still true. Arbitrarily sizing all four edges of windows and having them overlap (partially visible, partially hidden) is a waste of time. Almost always, you either want to look at a window completely or not at all. And you either want to look at 1 window, or maybe 2 or 3 or 4 and so have them either full-screen or tiled. You generally don't need them overlapping and don't need to show desktop space behind them either. Modern productivity interfaces are mostly all full-sized windows with tabs and sidebars now, not child windows and floating palettes like in 1995 or 2000. (Modal dialog boxes are still needed of course, but I don't think the author means those.)
- anthk 7y ago
  No one cares about the pseudo modern bullshit. Those interfaces that you mean are more close to the Xeroc Park ironically, than to a modern floating window manager/desktop. It's like the more bullshit of so called modern-Material desktop. FFS, Helvetica and brutalism predate like you like 70 years in design, and Motif/CDE/Windows9x interface got brutalism and FUNCTIONALISM right from the beginning. Material is good for paper-printed books and traffic signs/urban panels, not for a working and interacting device. The same happens with mobile interfaces and Gnome 3: they suck a lot on non-consumer devices. Guess why.
- GordonS 7y ago
  Many people are using high-res monitors now, which invariably come with software to allow quickly snapping windows to a portion of the screen, creating a grid layout where there is no overlapping, and no desktop space either. This already exists, right now. And I'd say that solutions like the one I describe are better, because they are completely customisable, and I can make windows full screen or minimise them as needed.
  - crazygringo 7y ago
    What do hi-res monitors have to do with anything...? Of course there's been third-party software to do that forever. But my Mac didn't come with it. It's so basic it should be integrated fully into the OS.

crazygringo 7y ago

I think that quote is badly put, but still true. Arbitrarily sizing all four edges of windows and having them overlap (partially visible, partially hidden) is a waste of time. Almost always, you either want to look at a window completely or not at all. And you either want to look at 1 window, or maybe 2 or 3 or 4 and so have them either full-screen or tiled. You generally don't need them overlapping and don't need to show desktop space behind them either. Modern productivity interfaces are mostly all full-sized windows with tabs and sidebars now, not child windows and floating palettes like in 1995 or 2000. (Modal dialog boxes are still needed of course, but I don't think the author means those.)

anthk 7y ago
No one cares about the pseudo modern bullshit. Those interfaces that you mean are more close to the Xeroc Park ironically, than to a modern floating window manager/desktop. It's like the more bullshit of so called modern-Material desktop. FFS, Helvetica and brutalism predate like you like 70 years in design, and Motif/CDE/Windows9x interface got brutalism and FUNCTIONALISM right from the beginning. Material is good for paper-printed books and traffic signs/urban panels, not for a working and interacting device. The same happens with mobile interfaces and Gnome 3: they suck a lot on non-consumer devices. Guess why.
GordonS 7y ago
Many people are using high-res monitors now, which invariably come with software to allow quickly snapping windows to a portion of the screen, creating a grid layout where there is no overlapping, and no desktop space either. This already exists, right now. And I'd say that solutions like the one I describe are better, because they are completely customisable, and I can make windows full screen or minimise them as needed.
- crazygringo 7y ago
  What do hi-res monitors have to do with anything...? Of course there's been third-party software to do that forever. But my Mac didn't come with it. It's so basic it should be integrated fully into the OS.