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I think some of those animations make the desktop behave a little more like objects would in the real world. For minimize, whether it's a line that shrinks, a

I think some of those animations make the desktop behave a little more like objects would in the real world. For minimize, whether it's a line that shrinks, a genie lamp, a simple shrink effect, it's all the same. A simple visual cue telling you where it went. A little form with the function is fine with me. There's a ton of computing power in even the weakest of machines. That said, I hope we'll always be able to turn it off. Even a default install of Raspberry Pi OS uses a composited window manager on the RPi 4 now.

ori_b 5y ago
> I think some of those animations make the desktop behave a little more like objects would in the real world. Why is this desirable? Objects in the real world have many inconvenient properties.
- BobbyJo 5y ago
  It can make things more intuitive. If you use mental models people already have, they tend to pick things up faster. I think the point of the cube, for instance, was to help people keep track of multiple windows a little easier by making it spacial as opposed to just a list. Maybe it wasn't very effective in that case, but I think the hypothesis was sound.