Wacky window minimization in 10.2
A <a href="http://www.thinksecret.com/features/jaguar6B112/"; target="_blank">ThinkSecret article</a> has screenshots from the 6B11 build of 10.2.
The article states that you can drag a minimized window out of the dock, to float around wherever you like on the screen:
Not sure whether to really count this as a bug or a feature... though I would like it if subsequent minimizations of the same window went to the same place on the desktop...
The article states that you can drag a minimized window out of the dock, to float around wherever you like on the screen:
Not sure whether to really count this as a bug or a feature... though I would like it if subsequent minimizations of the same window went to the same place on the desktop...
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It would look better if the window thumbnail was transparent though.
J :cool:
It would be cool to have a finder option that, instead of minimizing into the dock, a minimized window would shrink right where it is. Better than windowshading? Who knows.
Later,
Gamrin
It seems like they want to give us multiple docks.. or the option to split the dock up...
and this is halfway there...
Putting minimized windows in a 2nd dock - returning to NeXTish ways, yes... but better than the current hodgepodge.
Or, or, or, GIVE US MORE DOCK SEPERATORS, and USER CONFIGURABLE ONES!
SHEESH APPLE!
Damn! How fcuking hard could it be?
And yes, I already bought the windowshade haxie but that's not the point. What happens when I go to another machine with OSX on it? No windowshade!
Options! Just give us the fcuking options.
That "feature", if it is true, has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
One on left (apps), on on right (with trash in the far right, where it belongs! and docs to the left of the trash ...)
Right?
'nuf said.
It is more of a toy. I don't know if it will make it to final or not, but it is definitely SUPPOSED to be there. You can do it with every window. You can right click it and bring up a contextual menu. You can "throw" it in any direction and it will fly and stick to the edge of the screen.
You will see proof by tomorrow.
<strong>I will confirm... it is NOT a bug.
It is more of a toy. I don't know if it will make it to final or not, but it is definitely SUPPOSED to be there. You can do it with every window. You can right click it and bring up a contextual menu. You can "throw" it in any direction and it will fly and stick to the edge of the screen.
You will see proof by tomorrow.</strong><hr></blockquote>
If it brings up a contextual menu and can be "stuck" to the screen edges, it could be pretty useful. The part that seems buggy is that it goesto the Dock first with no option to "minimize in place" or anything. Would be an extra step. When you say "stick" do you mean like palettes in Photoshop "snap" to the screen edges and one another?
PS: boy, you just had to throw out that last bit didn't ya?
[ 01-28-2002: Message edited by: Guitarbloke ]</p>
<strong>If it brings up a contextual menu and can be "stuck" to the screen edges, it could be pretty useful. The part that seems buggy is that it goesto the Dock first with no option to "minimize in place" or anything. Would be an extra step. When you say "stick" do you mean like palettes in Photoshop "snap" to the screen edges and one another?
PS: boy, you just had to throw out that last bit didn't ya?
The proof will be in a movie as soon as it's hosted. I sent it to someone who would.
Hope you sent it to someone here, not to, say, Spymac. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
Still kinda hard to believe the OS X engineers are dicking around with stuff like this instead of, say, printer sharing or Windows network browsing or multithreading the Finder...
...but in the end I'm still glad they do, because while those things make it *possible* to use my Mac, these little joys make it *fun*.
<strong>I will confirm... it is NOT a bug.
It is more of a toy. I don't know if it will make it to final or not, but it is definitely SUPPOSED to be there. You can do it with every window. You can right click it and bring up a contextual menu. You can "throw" it in any direction and it will fly and stick to the edge of the screen.
You will see proof by tomorrow.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Oh, I get it. That's kind of interesting; it looks the UI team is actually responding to the criticism and trying to reduce some of the clutter out of the Dock... (First Xing out Dock Extras, now -- optionally -- windows....)
I can actually sort of see this working if you could "snap", like you say, the windows to the sides of screen -- esp. just using the minimize button (or double-clicking the title bar). Minimizing and *then* throwing window after window sounds like way too many steps, though.
Perhaps minimize-to-screen-edge will be a preference in Dock Preferences...?
Anyway, look forward those movies. I'm rather fascinated.
Thanks for the great research, Xeo.
[edit: typos, etc.]
[ 01-28-2002: Message edited by: Hobbes ]</p>
<strong>Still kinda hard to believe the OS X engineers are dicking around with stuff like this instead of, say, printer sharing or Windows network browsing or multithreading the Finder...
...but in the end I'm still glad they do, because while those things make it *possible* to use my Mac, these little joys make it *fun*.</strong><hr></blockquote>
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> Well said.