On 2010 Dec 11, at 18:38, Jonathan Fletcher wrote:

> Hmm. Let me get this straight--
> 
> You chose: 
> 
> Windows and a three-versions-old FileMaker just because it has the status area on the side



FWIW, I share Lee's irritation at the amount of screen space lost to the expanded status area across the top, and I've said so in the FMI suggestion box. Not only do we give up a wider strip, it's across the longer screen dimension. This is particularly annoying given that I have to design with the status area visible, but I provide my users with an interface where the status area is hidden, and I have to keep flipping back and forth to see whether what I'm working on has dropped off the bottom of the screen or not.

This is not such an inconvenience that I'd give up my Mac for it, and it's more than offset by the ability to insert new tabs wherever I want without having to renumber the next 100 manually, but it DOES represent a step backward from FMI's customary user friendliness (much like the loss of the floating palette for design tools), and I can readily understand how somebody less wedded to the Mac than I am would have a different set of priorities.