Star Digging Into Mac OS X's Single-Application Mode
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th Oct 2009 19:14 UTC
Mac OS X Way back, when we were recovering from our hangovers from the millennium parties, Apple introduced, for the first time, Mac OS X and the Aqua user interface. This was still a preview, so it wasn't quite as polished and finished, of course. It also contained a feature that never made it into the final releases: single-window mode. Or did it...?
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RE: tiling wm
by ple_mono on Sat 10th Oct 2009 23:51 UTC in reply to "tiling wm"
ple_mono
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2005-07-26

Or at least use that fourth button to MAXIMIZE windows (and i really mean maximize as in cover all space) at least. Apple, can we have a fourth "maximize" button please?

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RE[2]: tiling wm
by Thom_Holwerda on Sat 10th Oct 2009 23:53 in reply to "RE: tiling wm"
Thom_Holwerda Member since:
2005-06-29

Or at least use that fourth button to MAXIMIZE windows (and i really mean maximize as in cover all space) at least. Apple, can we have a fourth "maximize" button please?


In the linked series of videos in which Jobs introduces Aqua at MacWorld, he actually CALLS it a maximise button. Fun, huh?

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RE[3]: tiling wm
by chigye on Sun 11th Oct 2009 00:18 in reply to "RE[2]: tiling wm"
chigye Member since:
2009-10-11

There is a freeware app called RightZoom that enables the green button to be a true zoom. It only works in native Cocoa apps but it's a welcome feature! Download here: http://www.blazingtools.com/downloads.html#RightZoom

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RE[3]: tiling wm
by ple_mono on Sun 11th Oct 2009 02:57 in reply to "RE[2]: tiling wm"
ple_mono Member since:
2005-07-26

In the linked series of videos in which Jobs introduces Aqua at MacWorld, he actually CALLS it a maximise button. Fun, huh?

I particularly like the fact that when i click the "green button of mystery", itunes switches to the mini player - wow, apple, that just what i expected it to do (not) ;)
That's funny! ;)

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RE[2]: tiling wm
by Stratoukos on Sun 11th Oct 2009 11:24 in reply to "RE: tiling wm"
Stratoukos Member since:
2009-02-11

A fourth button would be kinda overkill I think, but Apple needs to fix the green button asap. I don't care if it maximizes or if it resizes to fit content or whatever else a button could do, just pick one function and use it consistently.

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RE[3]: tiling wm
by DavidSan on Sun 11th Oct 2009 20:24 in reply to "RE[2]: tiling wm"
DavidSan Member since:
2008-11-18

That's true. Consistency is what most users expect.

However, it is not easy to achieve that in Mac these days.

The main problem is "behavior". Cocoa framework provides "behavior" associated to the programming model, while "Carbon Applications" do not.

If all Mac apps were Carbon, the things would be easy to fix, but Office, CS, iTunes and many others, are still old school programming.

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