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Quicksilver has become the VERY FIRST thing I install on ALL OS X machines I get my hands on. It's so useful it hurts :)(Good things: disable caps lock by turning it into a second alt, use double alt activation in quicksilver. Single fn activation on portables works better though.)
@hotdamn: Because it's not Afloat's job. Although I can implement it (I might!), it's not the direction I gave it: to make things _you want_ floating and always-on-top. There are other free applications, such as Zazen, that do what you want. I didn't want to step in.If you care so much, you could have told me at the very beginning rather than editing your comment, so that I didn't have to solicit it from you with my response :(.
Oh well. At least now I see what your plan was. So yeah, that's something I would like it to do :)So, yes, if you add that just let us know, alright? I for one will digg it ;)
The author was trying to focus on GUI elements. While I agree with you that those two utilities (specifically Quicksilver) are simply _amazing_, they aren't necessarily GUI tweaks, so they wouldn't really fit in the article. They're more productivity tweaks than anything else.
l0neNov 5, 2006
Quicksilver has become the VERY FIRST thing I install on ALL OS X machines I get my hands on. It's so useful it hurts :)(Good things: disable caps lock by turning it into a second alt, use double alt activation in quicksilver. Single fn activation on portables works better though.)
l0neNov 5, 2006
@hotdamn: Because it's not Afloat's job. Although I can implement it (I might!), it's not the direction I gave it: to make things _you want_ floating and always-on-top. There are other free applications, such as Zazen, that do what you want. I didn't want to step in.If you care so much, you could have told me at the very beginning rather than editing your comment, so that I didn't have to solicit it from you with my response :(.
hotdamnNov 5, 2006
Oh well. At least now I see what your plan was. So yeah, that's something I would like it to do :)So, yes, if you add that just let us know, alright? I for one will digg it ;)
l0neNov 5, 2006
Okay. :) (added as an idea to my backpack planer page)
monkeyfartsNov 5, 2006
The author was trying to focus on GUI elements. While I agree with you that those two utilities (specifically Quicksilver) are simply _amazing_, they aren't necessarily GUI tweaks, so they wouldn't really fit in the article. They're more productivity tweaks than anything else.
sanctityNov 5, 2006
As MonkeyFarts said, the author was focusing on the GUI element and Quicksilver and Sogudi are more productivity orientated.
tobbzNov 6, 2006
If you need help customizing OS X, I can recommend www.macthemesforums.net
bedroomaudioNov 29, 2006
Does anyone know a simple way to get my desktop icons to arrange by name on the LEFT side of my desktop instead of the right?