IDEA: Window 'momentum'
I was just thinking the other day, after playing Defend Your Fortress on addictinggames.com for the 50,000th time, how cool it would be if windows in Mac OS X had momentum: that is, instead of manually dragging a window from one side of the screen to the other, you could 'fling' it across, that is grab on, twitch your mouse, and let go. There would be multiple parameters, such as friction and whether windows would bounce against the sides of your screen.
Thoughts?
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Wasn't there a similar extension that angled windows based on where the mouse is in the titlebar? So the center of gravity was set to the cursor position?
I forget...
Say you could set it to fling against the screen and sorta bounce back if it went to far and only half the window was hanging out the screen.
Could you image Steve showing this off at MacWorld... Giving it the steve effect (slomo)
Originally posted by Stoo
You shouldn't be able to throw the window out of the viewable area: it should bounce of the edge.
Naw, it should stick, ala Fire chat windows.
Love that feature.
Originally posted by LudwigVan
A beta build of Jaguar had a fling-and-stick option for minimized windows, didn't it?
It was called "minimize in place". It shrunk, but not into the dock; just where it was onscreen.
Originally posted by Placebo
It was called "minimize in place". It shrunk, but not into the dock; just where it was onscreen.
I should have clarified my post further. "Minimize in place" I do recall; I meant taking those small windows and tossing them against the side of the screen/desktop, where they would stick. I would have sworn I saw a QuickTime capture of this phenomena back in the day. In fact, it may have been one of Brad's posted videos.
Originally posted by Placebo
It was called "minimize in place". It shrunk, but not into the dock; just where it was onscreen.
I've wanted that feature ever since I saw Exposé for the first time, and now I find that they actually implemented it once? Put it back! Put it back!