October 5, 2009: Ode to Old Exposé
Found OS X back in ‘04, Mac fanboy I was not,
But one day at my student job, I gave the Mac a shot.
“How do I minimize all, man?!”, I yelled right off the bat,
My boss taught me Show Desktop, said, “You don’t really need that.”
“And check this out,” he continued, and showed me Exposé,
My view of window management changed forever that day.
In Tiger, you were perfect, and I fell in love with you,
Windows XP made me cringe: alt-tab and taskbar, eww!
In Leopard, you just stayed the same, as perfect features ought,
I showed you off to Mac hopefuls, and MacBook Pros they bought.
In Snow Leopard, though, something changed, and much to my dismay:
My Exposé was thrown away!
Why, dear Apple? Is this a joke?
You turned a perfect feature into something Windows-esque!
That grid is bloody useless, and minimized windows too…
Relative window sizes, natural layout was the best.
Exposé was intuitive, I ne’er gave it a thought,
Now I must stop and pause to find where my windows rest!
I use Leopard at work, and constantly I Exposé,
I go home to Snow Leopard, disappointed every day.
Old Exposé does everything just as I want it to,
If Exposé’s not fixed, I might just switch to Ubuntu.
Old Exposé was fluid, a model of good UI,
To have it tossed from Mac OS… it makes me want to cry.
