Window Decisions

 

On the computer, you have two choices of how you want to close windows.  I don’t fully understand the necessity of the two choices. I mean, people want variety and want to feel that they’ve made things their own, but this might be extending it a bit far.  I, for one, feel alright knowing that the great and mighty Microsoft corporation has made the decision of how windows close for me.  After all, I have enough decisions to deal with on a daily basis.  Now I have to decide something as pivotal as whether I want windows to snap closed or fade closed. 

 

This is a much larger dilemma than you might assume.  Snapping close is the quick and easy way to do it.  No muss, no fuss.  That’s the way it’s always been. Click. Gone.  No thought involved.  Then one day some programmer, probably bored out of his mind and hoping to climb his way up the mircosoft ladder, hoping to one day be in mr. gates chair, came up with the programming to make the windows fade closed.  It was neat looking.  He showed it to his supervisor.  The supervisor thought it was neat enough looking to show it to his boss. Up the chain it went, the smile on the face of the young programmer growing as it went, until finally, it made it to the newest program. There was much discussion and controversy over the new fading windows.  The older, more traditional types insisted the windows stayed as a quick snap shut command.  The younger, more creative folks really leaned toward the fading windows, and in the end, after hours and hours of deliberation, it was decided that the users would have the choice, between fading and snapping window exit commands.  The young programmer still sits in his cubicle, watching pirated streaming star trek videos, grumbling about never moving up in the world while I sit in my big office, choosing between the options.

 

Which brings me back to the original problem.  On the one hand, snapping closed HAS always worked very nicely for me.  Never really had a complaint about the snapping.  On the other hand, the fading looks real neat. It’s like a split second of entertainment every time.  However, as much as I think it’s as neat as the supervisor did, I find myself becoming annoyed with it on a nearly daily basis…waiting that extra split second for the fading to occur. I could simply go back to the snapping and resolve the annoyance issues, but then, the pretty fading would be gone. You see the problem.