iMovie and Brushed Metal

Here's a rotten combination: Apple's brushed metal GUI and more importantly, the click-anywhere-that-isn't-a-control-widget-and-move-the-window behavior that goes along with it combined with iMovie, an app where the control areas are small and RIGHT NEXT TO WINDOW-MOVING REGIONS!!! There's two triangles you have to click and drag in order to select a region of your video. But if you make a mistake and click juuuust outside those triangles you move the whole damn window. Annoying as hell! Now, wouldn't it be much better to use a keyboard shortcut to move those in and out points? Well, there isn't. You can cursor to move the pointer, but as far as I can tell there's no shortcut to SELECT either in or out triangle widgets, or more sensically, a keyboard shortcut to select the region you want. You can shift-click to select a region with the mouse, but not with the keyboard. Argh! Apparently the only way out of this mess is Final Cut Express, a cool 300 clams. *doh!*

Now, a sensible person would say: "That ain't brushed metal, that's more like painted metal. Hell, it isn't even metal, it could be plastic, glass or wood! It's really just solid grey. Furthermore, evidence suggests this interface isn't physical at all, but rather pixel-based!"

That sensible person would be correct. But it's besides the point. On the point is that brushed metal graphics and click-anywhere-to-move were conceived in the same instance by our dear friends in Cupertino. Can't we have a preference to toggle this on or off? Come on people, get with the program. How often does one need to move a window anyway? Wasn't Exposé designed to facilitate this issue of locating windows? Besides, iMovie is an application that generally demands full screen interaction. The window should be locked down.