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Marius Amado Alves <maa@liacc.up.pt> wrote:
: I find it funny that a constant look and feel is so assumed to be a good 
: thing. It is not. It only makes beginners confuse all applications. Vive la 
: diff?rence.

How does consistency imply indistinguishable?

I don't think that Mac users think or have thought that controlling
an application using familiar dialogues is confusing.

Most importantly, users shouldn't even have to know about applications.
In general, they should be manipulating data and the OS should offer
tools to do so