From: Russell Allen russell.allen@firebirdmedia.com
This is interesting. Was the Next dock aligned along one of the
sides of
the screen to take advantage of Fitt's Law when dragging/selecting minimized windows?
The dock actually was not a place where minimized icons went automatically, this is something that's new in OS-X. The dock was a repository for your ~10 most frequently used applications and the recycler, located on the right side of the screen. It could be used both for launching these applications and for switching to them. Dragging documents on top of the app-icon for opening was added later.
Applications not in the dock, as well as minimized document windows automatically went to the bottom of the screen, left to right and bottom to top. No scaling, all the tiles were a constant, fairly large size. Applicaion tiles sometimes animated to show application status. For example, the "clock" application was nothing but an animated application tile.
It was all highly effective in creating a transparent interface for working with multiple collaborating applications, where you directly to what you want to do instead of working the computer/interface. I've never seen anything like it, especially for working with many applications simultaneously.
Marcel
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