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macOS I have a very bad UX. It's small annoying issues, like minimizing a window. If you don't explicitly minimize the window and open another program, the oth

macOS I have a very bad UX. It's small annoying issues, like minimizing a window. If you don't explicitly minimize the window and open another program, the other window is hidden. Where is it? How can I open it? Yes by minimizing every window until I have found mine. For applications, this is not that bad, since you have the dock and just click on the icon to reopen your window, but what happens if you have several windows open of that app? It's a nightmare. I could write a whole list of toxic UX in macOS.

Razengan 6y ago
I find macOS to be much more pleasant than Windows. > If you don't explicitly minimize the window and open another program, the other window is hidden. Where is it? How can I open it? Yes by minimizing every window until I have found mine. I don't understand exactly what you mean. > what happens if you have several windows open of that app? One of these: • Right-click/Control-click on the Dock icon • Check the Windows menu of the app. Minimized windows will have a Diamond • Press F3 to open Mission Control. • Press Control+F3 to see all windows of the currently focused app. • Press Alt+F3 to open Mission Control settings and configure them to your liking, along with setting Hot Corners for showing application windows etc. • If you "Group windows by application" and have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can use scroll the wheel when hovering over an app's window, to "spread" that windows stack. • Press Option+Command+H to hide (not minimize) all windows except the active app.
- hacker_newz 6y ago
  When you minimize an app and switch to another, it disappears. Even if you alt-tab back to the app it remains hidden. It's ridiculous.
  - Razengan 6y ago
    > When you minimize an app and switch to another, it disappears. Even if you alt-tab back to the app it remains hidden. It's ridiculous. When you minimize a window, it disappears, period. It becomes an icon on the right side of the Dock unless you set the "Minimize windows into application icon" option. There's a very explicit animation of where it goes, that macOS is/was famous for (the "genie" effect). And all windows of an app can be accessed by right-clicking on its Dock icon, or its windows menu, or Control+F3.
jamesvandyne 6y ago
While the UI UX in macOS has degraded a bit, minimizing windows you’re not using as the main way to manage a desktop is, I think, a Windows habit. macOS works much better if you manage windows with hiding, rather than minimizing. Once you get the hang of it, with cmd-h (hide), cmd-tab (switch applications), and cmd-‘ (iterate windows of an application) I (almost) never leave the keyboard and can get right to the window I need quickly.

Razengan 6y ago

I find macOS to be much more pleasant than Windows. > If you don't explicitly minimize the window and open another program, the other window is hidden. Where is it? How can I open it? Yes by minimizing every window until I have found mine. I don't understand exactly what you mean. > what happens if you have several windows open of that app? One of these: • Right-click/Control-click on the Dock icon • Check the Windows menu of the app. Minimized windows will have a Diamond • Press F3 to open Mission Control. • Press Control+F3 to see all windows of the currently focused app. • Press Alt+F3 to open Mission Control settings and configure them to your liking, along with setting Hot Corners for showing application windows etc. • If you "Group windows by application" and have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can use scroll the wheel when hovering over an app's window, to "spread" that windows stack. • Press Option+Command+H to hide (not minimize) all windows except the active app.

hacker_newz 6y ago
When you minimize an app and switch to another, it disappears. Even if you alt-tab back to the app it remains hidden. It's ridiculous.
- Razengan 6y ago
  > When you minimize an app and switch to another, it disappears. Even if you alt-tab back to the app it remains hidden. It's ridiculous. When you minimize a window, it disappears, period. It becomes an icon on the right side of the Dock unless you set the "Minimize windows into application icon" option. There's a very explicit animation of where it goes, that macOS is/was famous for (the "genie" effect). And all windows of an app can be accessed by right-clicking on its Dock icon, or its windows menu, or Control+F3.

jamesvandyne 6y ago

While the UI UX in macOS has degraded a bit, minimizing windows you’re not using as the main way to manage a desktop is, I think, a Windows habit. macOS works much better if you manage windows with hiding, rather than minimizing. Once you get the hang of it, with cmd-h (hide), cmd-tab (switch applications), and cmd-‘ (iterate windows of an application) I (almost) never leave the keyboard and can get right to the window I need quickly.