My UI grievances

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  • Full-screen apps – why? The menu bar is useful. Some of us don’t like full-screen. AITA?

  • Resizing windows. Both Linux and Windows have figured out a way to resize a window to occupy the full real-estate of a screen…. without going into full screen. Dragging the window up in Linux does it right away. Double clicking the top bar of a window does it in Windows. Apple used to do this with the ‘maximize’ button on all windows. Now it only goes into full screen. As stated, I don’t like full-screen apps.

  • Rotating music to be landscape on IOS. People have been asking for this since sensors could detect screen orientation. Why not just spend a little developer effort here? It isn’t as though Apple can’t figure it out. It is clearly a decision. Why?

  • The system tray apps don’t come up in the task manager. That bothers me. Sometimes I want to kill a persistent badly behaved app. I have to seek the specific process and kill it, and I’m never sure I did it correctly. There should be a section in the task manager that lists background processes more clearly.

  • Subscription notices. Some of us don’t want to subscribe…ever. Can we opt out of your ads?

Hope all is well in your life. I’m complaining about minor flaws in a largely functional ecosystem.

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