Article:		Five Favorite Annoyances
Subject:		No more programs jumping in front and extensions
Date:		2004-12-26 04:16:35
From:		Aglaea
What I REALLY hate is those progams that beg for your attention by jumping in front while you are working on something else. Like iTunes jumping in front when you insert a CD while typing a letter or similar things. Or when there's an error and they get in front. It's such a lame Windows thing to do!! I want to stay in the program I'm working in. The other thing is not in the background for nothing! And also undo this extension mania that's been put in the OS. MacOS used not to care at all about file name extensions and now it (partially) does. That's SO backwards!!!! A document is still the same document, no matter what name I give it. It's really rediculous that a JPEG won't show a preview in the Finder when it has an extension like .html but it does the second it's .jpg when it's still the same file! I am not staying away from Windows to have this stupidity in 'my' OS too!

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• No more programs jumping in front and extensions
  2004-12-29 04:36:53  johnrynne [Reply | View]
  
  
  Absolutely! Having windows jump in front when I'm busy typing in another app is a real pain in the ass. Primarily because that last few words I typed don't go into the application in question, so I have to dismiss the "puppy-like" window and re-type.
  
  Another annoyance is the fact that application windows can get interleaved (like a deck of cards). I seem to remember some utility application (GoMac?) allowing you to keep application windows together (no interleaving, just like OS 9) but I have lost track of it.
• No more programs jumping in front and extensions
  2005-01-01 22:47:05  sibr [Reply | View]
  
  
  For the window interleaving issue, X-Assist is a free utility that provides a OS 9 style applications menu plus options for window arrangement.