That’s why Apple has standard UI widgets, so idiots like me don’t spend several minutes searching around iTunes 8’s interface trying to figure out how to make the Genius sidebar disappear.
— Dan Moren on the similarities between the Finder’s slideshow icon and iTunes 8’s hide sidebar icon. The new iTunes widget for removing the Genius sidebar is the natural progression of the hide artwork widget that’s been in that app’s footer for the last several versions, but I agree it’s entirely unfortunate that when redrawn to depict movement in the left-to-right direction, it’s uncannily similar, and potentially confusing. (via John Gruber)
