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Member since:2006-01-01
Moreover, try this:
Open a finder window. Press +, depending on your folder view, you will get one of the following results:
"As Columns" mode: will expand or contract to the last column with information in it.
"As Icons" mode: will expand or contract to show all of the icons (within the given space available)
"As List" mode: will expand or contract to show all of the columns (size, type etc) and will shrink height to fit items in list as icons mode.
"As coverflow" : pretty much does nothing on my Leopard install.
No one ever claimed it was a maximise button, it is a "size to optimal dimensions" button. It always shows the maximum amount of the window it is attached to, when used correctly. Some apps break these rules.
Member since:2005-11-10
Its idea of best is often totally whack though. As I had mentioned in the podcast, a default finder window will actually position itself partially off-screen and in the bottm-left-corner of the screen when you click the zoom button.
The response is so unpredictable we just don't ever bother to use it.
Member since:2006-01-01
Not on my MacBook. If I open a new finder window (e.g. double click on a volume) I have yet to see it do what you describe. Maybe you are doing something I'm not - maybe the methods we use to open Finder windows differs? No idea.
Member since:2005-04-01
This is the silliest comment I've ever heard, because you're defending something that makes no sense to begin with. Not only does it behave unpredictably, as Kroc said, but half the time, on my 24" iMac screen, it actually reduces the size of the window, which is moronic for a button that features a "+" sign.
If it's not maximize, what do you call that button? We all know about the "optimal size" crap, but most of us feel it's a joke.
Member since:2007-07-27
fit size to content of window / back to last custom size of window
you are not most of us.
the maximize button of windows and it clones is the gui concept which sucks. its sucks so bad that some user don't even get the existence of something called windows after working with this pos-guis for years. yes, really.
ps: if you want the shitty behaviour of windows, use it.
Edited 2009-08-12 12:24 UTC
Member since:
2005-07-20
You doofs
It isn't a maximize button. It adjusts the window to the "best" size. For the Finder it is the size that fits all the icons in the window. For a PDF it is big enough to fit the edges, or the top and bottom. Etc.
Some applications do treat it as a maximize button. However, that is not what they are supposed to do with it. Compare Safari and Firefox to see this.
I am surprised at you all for not realizing how this button works long ago.
It's a very useful button!