Mac OS X - Disappearing Menu
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From: TaliesinSoft on 14 Jan 2010 11:18 On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:11:56 -0600, TaliesinSoft wrote (in article <0001HW.C7749E6C0000C403B02A89BF(a)News.Individual.NET>): [in response to Michelle's query] > I guess I should have stated "currently active folders" instead of "currently > open folders". What I was intending to refer to was that when one clicks kon > the "-" in the upper lefthand corner of an open document that document will > be reduced to an icon in the dock. Perhaps I should have used the term "window" instead of "folder". I'll get it straight yet! :-) -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com
From: Jolly Roger on 14 Jan 2010 14:34 In article <0001HW.C77401CB0000F5E8B02A89BF(a)News.Individual.NET>, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:02:26 -0600, Nick Naym wrote (in article > <C773C942.4FBEE%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>): > > [responding to my opening posting in this thread in which I described the > application Menu Eclipse which allows on to have the menu bar at the top of > the screen fade when the cursor is not over it, the fade ranging from a > light gray all the way to a full black] > > > Since it doesn't gain you any real estate, I assume you want this primarily > > for aesthetics? > > Yes my use of Menu Eclipse is purely for aesthetics. I happen to like a > minimalist appearance of the desktop and that includes minimizing the > appearance of the menu when it is not needed. I personally consider the general look of the Mac OS X user interface to be satisfactory enough that I don't bother going out of my way to modify it. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jolly Roger on 14 Jan 2010 14:38 In article <0001HW.C77487A80020558BB01029BF(a)News.Individual.NET>, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote: > The dock, centered at the bottom of the screen and contains only the Finder, > Trash, and icons for currently open applications and folders. The dock has > been changed in appearance to something simpler than the default using the > applet Docker. The dock icons are set at 96 pixels square. I prefer my Dock to be pinned to the bottom-right corner of my display. I keep the icons at 28 pixels in size. And I keep no applications and just a few oft-used folders in the Dock. I have my Dock set to minimize windows into corresponding application icons. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Wes Groleau on 14 Jan 2010 16:13 Michelle Steiner wrote: > Oh. That term should be "minimized folders". I don't have them on my > Dock; they're hidden in the Finder's icon on the Dock, just like all > minimized windows from applications are hidden in their applications' icons. New feature? In Tiger and Panther, if I minimize a window, a shrunken image of it goes to the right end of the dock, with a miniature of its app's icon in the corner of the window icon. -- Wes Groleau Ellen Shrager's presentation at AZLA http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1384
From: nospam on 14 Jan 2010 16:25
In article <hio1df$ok8$3(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > > Oh. That term should be "minimized folders". I don't have them on my > > Dock; they're hidden in the Finder's icon on the Dock, just like all > > minimized windows from applications are hidden in their applications' icons. > > New feature? In Tiger and Panther, if I minimize a window, a shrunken > image of it goes to the right end of the dock, with a miniature of its > app's icon in the corner of the window icon. new in snow leopard. |