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Not 10.4 Only!
The "Arrange Windows in Front" command has been around in most previous versions of Mac OS X. It is not just limited to Tiger. Likewise the other options people are talking about: Reboot, Logout, etc., have also behaved differently with the option key held down. The general behavior of the option-key revealing hidden items in menus has been around since Mac OS 7 (for those programs that used the popular Mercutio MDEF) and the modification of behaviors with the option key held down has been an integral part of the Mac for as long as I can remember.
Not 10.4 Only!
Indeed. The 'Option' key has always played a part in modifying menu behaviors for as long as I can remember.
Sometime last year when I discovered the 'Close All Windows/Other Tabs' option in Safari, I submitted it as a hint and was subsequently rejected with the reply "it is 'just' a documented menu-item hint, which we don't generally run", from Rob. I guess the rules have changed. ;)
Not 10.4 Only!
You are right; option key has had the affect of providing an optional action ever since it appeared on the keyboard, but a) I'd never seen window cascade before - may not be new to tiger, but still faily new - and b) lots of people here have now been scurrying around their Mac UIs looking for other uses of it, so that can't be a bad thing. |
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