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The disastrous thing is that it would be less useful to have a maximized window be 10x the size of its contents. For example, IMO the behavior of safari on ma
by TheWama 18y ago
The disastrous thing is that it would be less useful to have a maximized window be 10x the size of its contents. For example, IMO the behavior of safari on maximize is just beautiful, because it's tailored to the specific website you're viewing.
If the application is a window into your data, why make that window bigger than necessary, thus obscuring your desktop, or some other window behind it? That may not be disastrous, but I think its intent makes sense.
Without further explanation, I end up suspecting that when he writes: "it almost never does what you’d want or expect it to," the emphasis is on his expectations as a Windows user, not on what he would prefer, all things being equal.
[and for the record, I'm speaking as an Ubuntu user, who has never owned a mac]
- abstractbill 18y agoI want to obscure my desktop, and all the other windows. Why would I want that stuff in my peripheral vision when I'm busy working?
- demallien 18y agoIn which case you simply hit Cmd-Shift-H (or select 'Hide Others' in the app menu), which hides all but the active application... Personally though, I generally just use Spaces to have different screens containing only applications that I want to use together. So I'll have a programming doc open in Preview, next to my XCode project window. Or I'll have a web browser open with Textmate if I'm doing something with Rails. That way you only have the apps that you are interested in on screen in any given 'space'. Next quibble?
- menloparkbum 18y agoCmd-Shift-H actually sends you "home" if that option is available. Opt-Shift-H hides others. The lame thing about hide others is there isn't a built in key command to show all.
- demallien 18y agoLol, actually we're both wrong. It's Opt-Cmd-H... At least it is when using French keyboards...
- menloparkbum 18y agowhoops... yeah, that's it.
- abstractbill 18y agoThis is what my desktop looks like for more than 90% of the time: http://abstractnonsense.com/desktop.png http://abstractnonsense.com/desktop.png If emacs wasn't taking up the whole screen, I'd have a scrollbar running down the middle of the screen, which would be really visually distracting. I used virtual desktops a lot back when I used Linux for my desktop os. They're great, and I'm sure I'll use them again when I upgrade from Tiger. But, for me at least, they're no substitute for maximization.
- jrockway 18y agoDo us a favor and hit C-x 3 sometime :) http://jrock.us/emacs-20080420.png http://jrock.us/emacs-20080420.png
- abstractbill 18y agoHeh, I'd never get anything done with all that clutter ;-)
- jrockway 18y agoYeah, that is more of a "this is possible" thing :) In "real life" i use the same size screen, but with the right third consisting of an irc window, REPL, and terminal; and the other two-thirds 2 or 4 files of code. Still cluttery, I guess... but I love it ;)
- boucher 18y agoI pity someone who spends more than 90% of their time in emacs. In fact, I pity anyone who spends 90% of their time in any text editor. Googling for things alone probably takes up 10% of my time, plus the time spent in my app, plus the time spent doing none of those things.
- paulsilver 18y agoIf you'd like to try them before upgrading, you can use VirtueDesktops from www.virtuedesktops.info - it's free and a pretty good virtual desktop app.