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Personally I like the Mac OS X interface, and my only complaint about it is that I would like to see more applications making better use of large screens, espec

Personally I like the Mac OS X interface, and my only complaint about it is that I would like to see more applications making better use of large screens, especially if this "full screen app" is going to become the next style wave to sweep interfaces. For example making Chrome full screen stretches one tab across the entire width of my iMac screen, which is a stupid waste of space on most websites, and looks horrible on some websites which try to fluidly expand to the entire width of this huge screen. A better user of the horizontal space in Chrome would be to show multiple tabs side by side or even history, with the most recent page in a pane the far right, and the page that you came from in a pane to the left of that, the page before that in another pane to the left, etc.

Bullshituserid 14y ago
The biggest failing of the Mac OS UI is forcing all apps to share a single menu, which remains glued to the top of one screen. This effectively turns your entire monitor into a single window, and encourages developers to spawn a flotilla of floating child windows. Thus you can't minimize or resize the application's UI, because you're herding a bunch of independent windows around. Not to mention the annoyance of rolling up to the menu and opening an item, only to find that it's not the menu for the app whose UI dominates the screen. If you "quit" Mail by dismissing its UI and revealing Xcode behind it, the menu bar is still owned by Mail. Goddamned stupid. It also contributes to this asinine mania for keeping apps running, even though you've "closed" them. When I dismiss an application's UI, I want it GONE, not wasting resources.