The Need for "Single Window Mode" 3239

Quite.

They can. And they will. And it's a bit of a waste; surely here is a task the computer can do for them.

I don't think you can be writing in one app and drawing in another at the same time. Not in OS X anyway.

Well, I am not sure I buy *that* one. Not every app can use so much space, but many can do it comfortably.

For instance, I find Visual Studio 2005- which is very much an "everything in the window" UI- to be kind of crowded on a 20 inch LCD.

Heck, even iTunes seems crowded to me on a 17 inch LCD, when the music store is up.

When you put everything into one window, that window really needs to be pretty big.

An interesting result, though I won't jump to the cause quite so quickly. :D

I do wonder what sort of UI these tested users were using.

It seems to me that single-window UI is indeed the standard now on OS X, and that this necessarily means the windows have to fill a large part of a typical screen.

(I said typical, not your 24 inch+17 inch monstrosity. :D)

I've used them, and they do work, but they aren't nearly as nice as maximization.

The Hide command, like Single Window Mode, leaves your foreground app to be adjusted.

But since it does not place other windows in the dock- indeed it removes those which are there- it makes it harder to switch between windows.

I think that task switching is a much more common mode than the simultaneous use of several apps you seem to anticipate.

Obviously, if you *want* clutter, maximization is not your friend. :D