Re: Running vs starting apps

[Dick Karpinski <dick cfcl com>]

Consider the desktop. None of your work gets done on the desktop. Thus
the true efficiency of the desktop is zero.

Then consider the apps. Every time you start one, it hides all the
commands you've been using and supplies a whole new set. If you are
lucky, some of the more popular commands may have similar command
gestures and even similar semantics. Still, it is virtually assured
that your fingers will make mode errors. You will type something that
makes sense in some other app, not this new one.

It would be possible to eliminate the desktop and the separate apps,
but it would require thinking outside the window, as it were.

Dick