I'm what you call an old fogey with good reasons. I truly believe some of the changes in computer interfaces is solely for the purpose of change, and not to make things better. Marketing has way too much pull on productivity.
16x9 widescreens instead of 16x10, ribbon interfaces taking up that precious vertical space and now tabbed interfaces - my latest rant.
I don't get why applications are updating their programs with "tabbed" interfaces to open multiple windows of the same session. First it was Office, web browsers, and now for me it's SSH/telnet clients. Seems they all boast tabbed interfaces. I don't get it. There is nothing productive about going between two tabs by using the mouse, or by using an applications specific key combination (which is not the same everywhere) to go between tabs.
Give me separate windows and alt-tab any day.
16x9 widescreens instead of 16x10, ribbon interfaces taking up that precious vertical space and now tabbed interfaces - my latest rant.
I don't get why applications are updating their programs with "tabbed" interfaces to open multiple windows of the same session. First it was Office, web browsers, and now for me it's SSH/telnet clients. Seems they all boast tabbed interfaces. I don't get it. There is nothing productive about going between two tabs by using the mouse, or by using an applications specific key combination (which is not the same everywhere) to go between tabs.
Give me separate windows and alt-tab any day.