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I've noticed that too, and the decision seems to be more about fashion than usability to me. I noticed that it tended to happen as MacOS became popular; not as
by toomim 3y ago
I've noticed that too, and the decision seems to be more about fashion than usability to me. I noticed that it tended to happen as MacOS became popular; not as the design was better or the use-cases changed.
This MacOS dock has been around for a long time. It was actually copied from NextSTEP, which was cloned in WindowMaker, which was one of the most popular window managers for unix in the early 2000s.
But even then, the most "mainstream" window managers were copying Windows, which was the most popular OS of the day. Free Software developers would aspire to create something mainstream, and would look to copy whatever was mainstream. Back then it was windows. Today it's MacOS.
- Dalewyn 3y agoAs someone who is noticing more and more Macs where they used to be Windows before, I agree. The mainstream is moving from Windows to MacOS, and the "industry leader to ripoff" is likewise changing over.
- 3836293648 3y agoOf course it's fashion. It's pretty and doesn't hurt anyone. Just select apps with thr keyboard
- nikau 3y agoIt does hurt in a "mess up your spatial awareness" way by not having icons in the exact same spot as the dock resizes to cater for the number of running applications. The windows 10 task bar is best, left aligned icons that once pinned sit in the exact same spot.