tyen
Feb 13, 2000, 03:19 PM
I haven't been following everything that closely, so I don't know if this has been covered...
but I think it'd be useful if the user could move the dock to a different edge of the screen (other than the bottom).
NeXT/OpenStep had the dock on the right (direction, not correctness) side of the screen for a reason: most documents people work with are taller than they are wide, and the screens people use are wider than they are tall. So putting interfaces on the sides of documents doesn't affect the amount of a document you can see as much as if you place interface items above and below windows.
And since these are icons (and the icons look pretty big from what I've seen - yes I realise they're scalable, but how small a icon do you want for a dock?) the problem is a lot more apparent than when you put a menubar above, or a taskbar below. (nb, even windows lets you drag the taskbar to other sides of the screen)
Perhaps on larger monitors it's not such a big deal. But I still find myself using all the vertical space i can get on 17" monitors.
But perhaps it's already possible to move the dock around and i'm worrying about nothing. I hope so http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/smile.gif
but I think it'd be useful if the user could move the dock to a different edge of the screen (other than the bottom).
NeXT/OpenStep had the dock on the right (direction, not correctness) side of the screen for a reason: most documents people work with are taller than they are wide, and the screens people use are wider than they are tall. So putting interfaces on the sides of documents doesn't affect the amount of a document you can see as much as if you place interface items above and below windows.
And since these are icons (and the icons look pretty big from what I've seen - yes I realise they're scalable, but how small a icon do you want for a dock?) the problem is a lot more apparent than when you put a menubar above, or a taskbar below. (nb, even windows lets you drag the taskbar to other sides of the screen)
Perhaps on larger monitors it's not such a big deal. But I still find myself using all the vertical space i can get on 17" monitors.
But perhaps it's already possible to move the dock around and i'm worrying about nothing. I hope so http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/smile.gif