I have one UI pet peeve: mousing over large screens.<p>I look at it this way: when the Apple Macintosh made the mouse popular in 1984, it was with a 9 inch, 512x324 resolution display. I got started computing on a 17 inch, 640x480 resolution display, so not that much larger in terms of usable screen real estate. Now, I have two 22 inch, 1680x1050 resolution displays, one turned vertically. For comparison, I made this image
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/thOvKDvamA7iCeQLCdyGIw?authkey=Gv1sRgCJqd-72OjOqvxAE&#38;feat=directlink" rel="nofollow">http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/thOvKDvamA7iCeQLCdyGIw?...</a><p>The red box in the middle is the old Macintosh display. It looks roughly 5 inches across the diagonal. Mousing interfaces haven't changed in any significant way in the last 30 years, but displays have grown astronomically in that time. If arguments against the mouse over text interfaces were contentious back-in-the-day, it's even worse now. My wrists can't take this anymore.