Stable Windowshade hack?
I really miss Windowshade. Is there a stable, safe freeware or shareware version out there? I still dont understand why Apple is being so stubborn about not putting it back?
I would also love to see a configurable Favorites menu back under the Apple Menu.
Oh yes, and the trash can bak on the desktop. I set the dock to hide and throwing something in the trash is a pain in the arse.
On the positive side i find using the internet to be much faster in Panther than in OS9.
I would also love to see a configurable Favorites menu back under the Apple Menu.
Oh yes, and the trash can bak on the desktop. I set the dock to hide and throwing something in the trash is a pain in the arse.
On the positive side i find using the internet to be much faster in Panther than in OS9.
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With the release of Panther, there's less need now than ever to bring back window shade. Exposé makes for vastly improved window management. Assign the Exposé commands to the corners of the screen and take advantage of Fitt's Law with those corners' infinite x,y size! If you have a many-button mouse, assign Exposé there too.
Anecdote o' the day: My girlfriend never used Macs in her life before she met me. The only Mac she really uses is mine. When I installed 10.3, I set up Exposé for the corners. She set it off by accident one day and within minutes she had already mastered the technique. She's mastered and uses it all the time now and loves it.
Oh yes, and the trash can bak on the desktop. I set the dock to hide and throwing something in the trash is a pain in the arse.
I pin the dock to the bottom end and hide it. I take a file from anywhere, slam the cursor in the infinite +x,-y direction, and it drops into the trash. That's a lot easier and quicker than having to uncover some icon on the desktop from under maybe dozens of windows.
As for hacks? Bah.
Originally posted by Brad
Wow, you must really be one from that endangered species I heard of recently... I think they're called Nineicus Holdovericus.
With the release of Panther, there's less need now than ever to bring back window shade. Exposé makes for vastly improved window management. Assign the Exposé commands to the corners of the screen and take advantage of Fitt's Law with those corners' infinite x,y size! If you have a many-button mouse, assign Exposé there too.
Anecdote o' the day: My girlfriend never used Macs in her life before she met me. The only Mac she really uses is mine. When I installed 10.3, I set up Exposé for the corners. She set it off by accident one day and within minutes she had already mastered the technique. She's mastered and uses it all the time now and loves it.
I pin the dock to the bottom end and hide it. I take a file from anywhere, slam the cursor in the infinite +x,-y direction, and it drops into the trash. That's a lot easier and quicker than having to uncover some icon on the desktop from under maybe dozens of windows.
As for hacks? Bah.
And I readily support the use of Windowshade X from Unsanity. It's cheap and STABLE (and even if it isn't with some obscure app, it's easy to disable per application.)
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/wsx/
Also, unless Brad has used some sort of 'hack,' the Trash icon doesn't have infinite depth on any axis...
Originally posted by Eugene
Exposé isn't really a replacement for Windowshade, just like the Dock wasn't. Windowshade lets you do one thing very easily. You can use one command (twice) to quickly see what's behind a window without moving it. In Exposé, you'd have to trigger the Exposé then click or tab to the right window, then go back if you want to do the same gesture. That's not very efficient. With the Dock, the same problem is present. Minimizing to the Dock is one command, while maximizing is another.
And I readily support the use of Windowshade X from Unsanity. It's cheap and STABLE (and even if it isn't with some obscure app, it's easy to disable per application.)
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/wsx/
Also, unless Brad has used some sort of 'hack,' the Trash icon doesn't ever stretch in the infinite +x direction when it's horizontally positioned...
Originally posted by steve666
Expose? Is this part of OSX?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/expose/