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I don't understand why they changed Exposé to proportional windows. It's not as easy to find what you're looking for--relative window size was the easiest way (for me) to quickly understand which window is which.

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Agreed, they took literally the most immediately identifiable property of a window--its size--and threw it out in favor of a grid with text labels that I never read. The only justifications I can conceive of are that they wanted to give each window an equal click target, or that somebody really wanted text labels. Neither really impresses me. The old layout was a better visual metaphor too, akin to spreading out everything on a table; the animation for the new layout gives me a headache.

The Old-Style exposé ordered windows according to their size on the desktop and relative order in the stack, IIRC.

I've always assumed that when they decided to include minimized windows in exposé's results, they felt it was necessary to abandon those properties because it wasn't clear how minimized windows could be fit in with them.

Maybe they tried that internally but it didn't feel natural, or something.

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