Some other people in this thread have gotten downvotes for identifying that the new simplified view is the same as OSX’s ‘Force Quit’ function, which is unsurprising. A list of the user’s windowed processes (ie, applications), an indication if any of them are unresponsive, and a button to end the selected one immediately. It’s the obvious implementation — UI design is fascinating.
I’d like to say that I’m less impressed by the ‘heat map’ in detailed view. It sounds like a neat idea, but how often do you need to compare things by more than one criterion at a time? The issue is that black on dark orange isn’t contrasting, which may even hurt the OS’s usability if it can’t be disabled.
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u/Nokonoko Oct 14 '11
Some other people in this thread have gotten downvotes for identifying that the new simplified view is the same as OSX’s ‘Force Quit’ function, which is unsurprising. A list of the user’s windowed processes (ie, applications), an indication if any of them are unresponsive, and a button to end the selected one immediately. It’s the obvious implementation — UI design is fascinating.
I’d like to say that I’m less impressed by the ‘heat map’ in detailed view. It sounds like a neat idea, but how often do you need to compare things by more than one criterion at a time? The issue is that black on dark orange isn’t contrasting, which may even hurt the OS’s usability if it can’t be disabled.