Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup

UI thoughts

Right now I'm steadily reading Jef Raskin's "Interfaces" one more time.

Finding the following: if you have no taskbar on your desktop) let's assume you have not) then you definitely not need minimize (or hide) buttons in the windows caption. At the same time, I guess, there is no need to have the maximize button; moreover, it's application business to do this (if it can, of course).

But, if the mouse is your primary input device, then the taskbar may be the fastest way to switch between tasks...