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In the 90s we actually thought human multitasking was possible. This is the Desktop environments fatal flaw. There’s pop-up dialogs, control bar icons with bits

In the 90s we actually thought human multitasking was possible. This is the Desktop environments fatal flaw. There’s pop-up dialogs, control bar icons with bits of noisy info, widgets and sidebars with extra info. And many OS-X apps don’t honor system notification preferences. Given a choice between writing on an iPad w/ keyboard or my Mac laptop, I always choose the iPad. It’s a UI that forces a notification paradigm on every app (by virtue of an App Store). It has full screen by default. Ironic that the “phone OS” is better built to respect my attention.

spideymans 5y ago
It truly is a much less noisy environment. A lot of people malign full screen apps on the Mac as useless, but I find it to be a fantastic way to get rid of all distractions. I just wish that OS X had the “Slideover” feature from iPadOS, so I could quickly reference another app while in the full screen environment.
dredmorbius 5y ago
Multi-tasking isn't the only argument for a windowed or tiled layout. There are many tasks which involve working with information from (or to) multiple sources. If I'm writing, I may be referencing material, or excerpting what I'm writing into another document or communication, or reading a source and a manual at the same time. A long-ago development environment I used had three principle windows. One was the program source code, another was the generated report output, and the third was a set of runtime messages --- notes, warnings, and errors --- from the run. Roughly equivalent to stdin, stdout, and stderr, in a Unix context (and presented as same on Unix). Mind that this is not the same as having chat, email, stock and weather tickers, etc., all visible at all times, a mode I find exceptionally annoying and utterly hostile to focus and concentration. That's not the only possible usage, though. (Mobile devices' presumption that owner's attention is interruptable at any time is its own crime against humanity.)

spideymans 5y ago

It truly is a much less noisy environment. A lot of people malign full screen apps on the Mac as useless, but I find it to be a fantastic way to get rid of all distractions. I just wish that OS X had the “Slideover” feature from iPadOS, so I could quickly reference another app while in the full screen environment.

dredmorbius 5y ago

Multi-tasking isn't the only argument for a windowed or tiled layout. There are many tasks which involve working with information from (or to) multiple sources. If I'm writing, I may be referencing material, or excerpting what I'm writing into another document or communication, or reading a source and a manual at the same time. A long-ago development environment I used had three principle windows. One was the program source code, another was the generated report output, and the third was a set of runtime messages --- notes, warnings, and errors --- from the run. Roughly equivalent to stdin, stdout, and stderr, in a Unix context (and presented as same on Unix). Mind that this is not the same as having chat, email, stock and weather tickers, etc., all visible at all times, a mode I find exceptionally annoying and utterly hostile to focus and concentration. That's not the only possible usage, though. (Mobile devices' presumption that owner's attention is interruptable at any time is its own crime against humanity.)