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I only have an iPad these days, I now use Windows; but when I did use MacOS, has Apple fixed your first bug? Can you resize windows from any edge or corner now, or must one always uses the lower right corner only to resize the window?



It took years, but yes.

Years after that, Apple was going to fix another one: The Delete key (the real one, not the Backspace key that Apple mislabels "delete") does nothing in Finder. It should send files to the trash, as it does in Windows (and probably every other desktop GUI).

They pushed the bug back to me as "will not do," which I bounced back with an argument that forcing people to drag, drag, drag stuff to the trash all day made the Mac look clumsy and dumb in comparison to Windows. To my surprise, they actually reconsidered and added the deletion function to Finder. I don't remember the OS version, but it may have been Jaguar betas.

A few months later, someone on an internal mailing list posted, "Hey, what happened to the Delete key working in Finder? I was really enjoying that!" Sure enough, the function had been pulled at the last minute before release.

I investigated, and was told that ONE person had objected to the behavior, claiming that his cat might delete stuff by walking on the keyboard. Seriously.

I wrote an even longer protest, pointing out that this was the entire purpose of the trash-can paradigm: to prevent accidental deletions. I also observed that it was pretty sad that Apple no longer understood a paradigm that it had popularized.

But to this day, the Delete key does nothing in Finder. Absurd.


Yes, now you can resize from any corner/edge.


Does it show the cursor hint though?

If I remember correctly, the confusing part was finding the part of the edge that allowed you to resize as the mouse remained a pointer.


That is the fundamental problem with the implementation. Apple doesn't have frames on their windows, and often the resizing cursor fails to appear.

The cursor problem also occasionally afflicts splitter bars in other Mac UI, however. I don't remember how often this splitter-bar problem happens on Windows.


Yes, it shows cursor hint for both edges and corners.




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