>Imagine you are working with several applications at once, say you have your >email program open with the main window and an open message in a separate >window, you also have your browser open with two (full screen) windows, >Finale with a score and two part files, the System Gui with a couple of >windows, and perhaps your word processor with another two windows. Now you >want one of your Finale windows in front, but it is burried somewhere behind >everything else. The normal way would be to go to the dock (or the Taskbar >in Windows) select the correct app (or even window in Windows), but it will >be hard to find.
I don't get it. Why would it be hard to find? That's how I work all the time and any window is just a mouse click away.
>With Expose I move my mouse into a corner, and all Windows (all means all, >not just the front application, although that is possible, too) shrink so >they fit neatly on the screen. The amount they shrink depends on the number >and size of windows. Due to the screen vector graphics they even look pretty >good at reduced size. I can now move the mouse over any one of them and >Expose will tell me their name. If I click on one it comes to the front >again (and everything goes back to full size).
If you hover the mouse over the taskbar, it will give you, not only the window name, bur also the open document, if, for some reason you don't know what button to press. I can't imagine not knowing which button goes to which program window.
>I can do the same just for the windows of the front application. I can also >just hide all windows to see the desktop.
Yes, that is also a button click on the taskbar. Windows has all program access on the taskbar. I don't see how it can be more integrated than that.
>The point is I can immediately >restore all windows to full size, get the one to front which I need. >I know this sounds as though the functionality is not that different from >what you can do in Windows by the task bar, but once you have tried it you >will see that the whole approach is so much better and quicker than any >taskbar or dock or program switching.
I doubt it.
>This is not about hiding windows or arranging windows, it's about _finding_ >windows.
I never lose them, must be a Mac thing. Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://personal.monad.net/~p_daley
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