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1. #Itunes interrupting vox preferences how to
2. #Itunes interrupting vox preferences windows 8

Spotlight should appear somewhere sane and predictable.

As is, they unpredictably follow either rule, or borrow from the next bullet: Popups should consistently happen on either the active screen, or the active/furthest-forward window of the spawning program. Which, if you move to a smaller screen, puts them in offscreen no-man's-land where they can't actually be used or closed. a 'find' box), they maintain relative position as you drag the main window across screens. If a program has dialog boxes open (e.g. Yes, I'm capable of doing so, but that doesn't mean I want to.īroadly, I object to the inconsistency and high astonishment factor more than any specific choice. I would argue that OS X still has bad multi-screen support because I shouldn't have to hunt for where dialog boxes and status updates have been placed. Now that we can right-click the icon to eject the volume and have forgotten the origins of the drag-to-trash gesture, it may seem nonsensical, but those of us who were there at the beginning were grateful for the shortcut. So you physically eject a disk by selecting it and pressing Command-E (remember, only one mouse button), but how do you get rid of the ghost icon afterwards? Same way you get rid of anything - you drag it to the trash.įrom there it's an obvious shortcut to combining the two operations by dragging a "live" icon to the trash to both eject it and remove its icon in one step. So the volume's icon remained on the desktop, only dimmed so you knew the disk wasn't physically present.

When you wanted to copy a file from one disk to another, you had to (physically) eject the first disk to insert the second one, but the first disk volume was still logically mounted so you could use it as a source or destination. Gather round, kids, and listen to Grandpa tell you a story of the days when Macs had only one floppy disk drive. > want to eject a disk? drag it to the trash can.? In 10.11, we're exposed more to gestures, because it's quick, but there is always alternative way to trigger something without gesture. The main difference I see is that 10.11 has a LOT more features than the 10.5, but the core interaction remain the same in regard to discoverability. drag icon from the dock to somewhere to remove it). The bad part of the UI interaction was always there (e.g. I always see people saying Apple UI got worse in discoverability for the past few years and make it sounds like earlier releases were perfect, but I don't believe that is true.

#Itunes interrupting vox preferences how to

I still don't know how to trigger Space/Expose without either using gesture (in 10.11) or look up the shortcut key (in 10.5). Shortcut for opening dictionary is still not very discoverable in both versions (Cmd-Ctrl-D). Any menu items that will open a dialog still indicates with three dots (".") in both versions. To remove things from the Dock, right click the icon and the "Remove from dock" is still there in both versions. The search function in help was there in 10.5, and still there in 10.11. The trash icon was there in the Dock in 10.5, and still there in 10.11. I'd rather every button look like a shimmering stupid bubble than an unusable postmodern art piece.Īs someone who got to use a PowerBook G4 (running 10.5.8) from time to time (in fact, I'm typing this very comment on it), I fail to see how their current UI is any more undiscoverable than the UI from 7 years ago. I could also talk about how the gaussian blur effect is just about the most wasteful effect you can apply to anything, and is a far cry from pioneering the first fast rounded rectangle drawing algorithm, or anything in that vein, but I don't need to.īecause Apple's UI is just no longer good. If the piece of text hasn't been there since OS X first came out, is it clickable or not? Because I damn well can't tell, nothing new looks like a button anymore. Want to see your notifications? Two-finger swipe to the left, starting from the edge of the touchpad.

#Itunes interrupting vox preferences windows 8

Now, though, they've done the Windows 8 thing of overloading gestures and hiding behaviors. Need to perform a function but don't know the name? Look it up in the Help menu's search box. Want to delete a file? There's a trash can glued to your dock. Their reputation stemmed from the days where everything was discoverable.