Quote Originally Posted by Kaniaz View Post
I mean, says the Mac user who has bouncing icons, wibbly wobbly Exposé window switching, genie minimising effects, glowing buttons and a UI engine that has practically every effect available on the planet.
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Bouncing icons, sure. An icon bounces while a program starts (much less irritating to me than changing the mouse cursor) and when it needs attention. I'd much rather have an icon bounce than a program pop up a message box or dialog unannouned. If you have the Dock set to auto-hide, you only see the bounce when the progrram needs attention.

Exposé uses simple scaling effects, and they're only active when you call up that particular feature. The wobbly stuff, which I'll grant is largely superfluous, is mostly in Dashboard.

Genie is a bit over the top, so I switch to "Scale Effect". I'd choose "none", if it were an option, so I guess Windows wins there.

The glowing buttons are there to provide UI clues. If it pulsates, it's "Important". If it's solid blue, it's the default action. If it has a halo around it, it's the default way back.

The Quartz drawing engine on the Mac has effects, yes, but my point is that none of these gets in my way or is overly childish. Windows has: an animated dog when you try to search for files (until you turn it off), cartoon files blowing in the wind when you copy or delete files, a waving Windows flag in the corner of each window while you bounce around the filesystem, more animations when you turn NTFS file compression on a folder hierarchy. What in the world is all that doing in a "Professional" operating system? Then there's the Microsoft Agent control (which, thankfully, very few developers use) which is in a class of nonsense by itself.