__/ [ B Gruff ] on Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:05 \__
> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:43 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Vista?s sidebar ? a waste of space?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Apart from the new Aero interface, this was to be the other big visual
>> | sensation in Vista ? one of the first things you see when you fire up
>> | the machine.
>> |
>> | We saw it. And then we moved on.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | The whole point of the Sidebar, or any equivalent application, is to
>> | provide an always-up visual zone for easy access to mini-apps. It does,
>> | however, rely on two main requirements ? first that the content is in
>> | someway useful and second that the area itself is as unobtrusive as
>> | possible.
>> `----
>
http://www.apcstart.com/site/jbannan/2006/07/665/vistas-sidebar-a-waste-of-space
>
> Hmmm... he's a bit of a nay-sayer, isn't he? He doesn't need to run ALL
> his apps full-screen, so surely all that he has to do is to have the
> sidebar up in one of his virtual desktops that don't use all the screen, or
> even give it a virtual desktop of its own....;-)
That's just what I had in mind. No virtual desktops. Rex recently said that
Windows users are accustomed to to this habit of working with just one
application at a time -- one that is maximised to occupy the entire screen.
In reality, the notion of minimising and maximising applications should be
merely deprecated. I rarely even use Alt+(Shift)+Tab either.
Ctrl+(Shift+)+Tab is the easier way to get things done if you remain
consistent (e.g. everything mail-related in desktop 4). Other possibilities:
pager and keyboard accelerators... often CTRL+Fx by default (GNOME, KDE). If
Windows does not evolve, it will never encourage its user to adpt productive
paradigms for GTD (getting things done).
Best wishes,
Roy
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