Elmer wrote:
> You did great justice to the dock there - good going.
Thanks
> (The Dock) supports all kinds of notification methods
That's right! i actually forgot to mention the fact that you can CONTROL applications fro the Dock. I also forgot to point out that, with Dropstuff on the Dock, I drag-and-drop items I want stuffed onto it, and voila! Another thing about dropping onto the Dock is that -- at least with MS Entourage -- you can drop items you want to attach to an email onto Entourage's Dock icon and the items will be handled accordingly by Entourage: If Entourage is NOT booted, it will boot and create a blank email with the items attached. If entourage is already booted and you have an email writing in-progress, the items will be attached to THAT email!
> What really drew me to the Mac interface though, was the menu at the top of the screen.
I'm glad you see it that way. I find Window's command-menu-FOR-EVERY-WINDOW ridiculously redundant. Like, you can only click on ONE menu at a time, anyway. plus, with the menu at the top of the monitor in Mac OS, you can rely on intuitive motor-memory to just push the mouse up before you even start to think about where SPECIFICALLY you need to pull down a menu, zeroing in on the way up. With several windows open in an app within Windows, and all the windows at different sizes and positions on-screen, it's a hunt-and-peck process, every time.
Plus, redundant command menus wastes screen real estate. Once again, Windows tries to be helpful ("Hey! Lets put the menu on every window!"), but ends up being wasteful and cumbersome.