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Unfortunately that's not the sort of thing osx is amenable to.
by brian_cloutier 14y ago
Unfortunately that's not the sort of thing osx is amenable to.
- moe 14y agoI think it might be doable, although it would take quite some skill and nasty hacks. The various half-assed "click-to-arrange" utilities (SizeUp et al) demonstrate that windows can be placed, sized, hidden and shown programmatically. Other utilities demonstrate that mouse-position, clicks etc. can be detected and intercepted, and that you can render raster-overlays on top of the desktop. Window drop shadows can be disabled, the window chrome probably can't - but I wouldn't mind that. An ion for OSX would probably have to draw its GUI (grid and tabs) as an overlay and then arrange the windows underneath. It would probably also have to intercept all mouse-actions and decide whether to pass them on. The devil will obviously be in the details, and there will be lots of them. But in principle it doesn't seem impossible to go from something like http://www.tylerwm.com http://www.tylerwm.com to something that actually works...