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glen herrmannsfeldt

Yes. But, well, my point (if I have one) is that it doesn't matter what J. Random Developer believes. It doesn't even matter what Bill Gates or Steve Jobs believes. What matters is measurable throughput over the long term (which entails a rational accommodation to different user's differing levels of experience and working styles). If we don't measure these things, we're guessing at critical design factors. If we built bridges that way, the users would be dead and we'd be in jail.

While we're on the subject of function keys: Apple's new ExposZ feature but gosh darnit, it ought to be doable with the mouse. Why should I have to leave BOTH the mouse and the home row to see what windows I have open or what's on my desktop. (Well, I don't have to if I rebuttign the keys or implement extra buttons on my mouse -- but why should I have to do this??)

Don't they prototype these things before they implement them any more? Why not just move the menu bar to the border of the window (thereby decreasing the effective size of the menus as targets by a factor of infinity! -- one of Bill's REALLY world-beating "innovations") and have done with the idea of a consistent and efficient user interface once and for all!

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