Sunken Metal Widgets Bug
Posted January 9th, 2003 @ 05:18pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Just uncovered a "problem" with those metal widgets that are "sunk" into the metal. Closing a window in the background with those metal widgets causes that app to become the frontmost application.
Try it in Safari. Try it in iCal. Try it in calculator (but note that Calculator quits when you close its window, but briefly, it comes to the front - same with iSync). Thanks to Andy for helping find this one.
That's not how it should work. 🙁
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Posted 10 Feb 2003 at 4:13pm #
um, so how should it work? wasnt that the case in OS 9? If you clicked on a background window it would become active, or maybe i just havent used it in a while. Please offer an example curently in use of how it should work. Oh yeah, before i get flamed, im not being argumentative or flip, just asking.
Posted 10 Feb 2003 at 4:23pm #
It should work in that closing a window, or minimizing a window, or even maximizing a window should not cause that app to come forward. It should remain in the background.
This is how "all other" Mac OS X apps work.
Posted 14 Feb 2003 at 4:36am #
apple's compliance with the hig released by apple
both erik and matt both wrote articles about apple's ui principles and and what they are doing with them
Posted 23 Feb 2003 at 12:56pm #
Today I filled out about 40 bug reports at http://bugreporter.apple.com/. Here's the list, from our previous articles on the "inconsistencies" we find creeping up in the Mac GUI. If you have any bugs that you'd like to add to this list, let me know (me...
Posted 11 Apr 2003 at 10:15pm #
Steven of Panic is pointing out that there are now three different kinds of metal window widgets. Hell, I'm still irked that my Sunken Metal...