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Re: Mac Cursor [message #51145 is a reply to message #51142]

Wed, 08 November 2006 17:01

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:28:12 -0500, Paul van Delst wrote:

> JD Smith wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:12:17 -0600, Christopher Thom wrote:
>>
>>> Quoth Paul van Delst:
>>>
>>>> Christopher Thom wrote:
>>>> > Major pet peeve, though, is the lack of highlight-copy and
>>>> > middle-click-paste in OSX. 5 months after switching, it STILL catches me
>>>> > out. doh!
>>>> That drives me nuts too. In my linux system window focus follows my mouse. I
>>>> haven't yet figured out how to get that to work on my Mac (I know it's
>>>> possible... somehow) and I'll move my mouse to my target window and start
>>>> typing, only to have it appear in the window I was just "in". Argh.
>>> you can get focus-follows-mouse behaviour with mondomouse software. It's
>>> not free though:
>>> http://www.atomicbird.com/mondomouse/
>>>
>>> I tried it out, but it's not *true* focus-follows-mouse behavious, because
>>> it always raises the new active window. i.e. you can't turn off the
>>> autoraise feature.
>>
>> The top menu bar ensures FFM will never really work with the Mac. Say
>> you have several windows from different apps. You move up to select a
>> menu item, but before you get there, brush across a window of another
>> app, and its menu is selected. Oops.
>
> I have zero knowledge of computer work-environment on-screen ergonomics, but the concept
> of a *single* top-menu bar like on Apples totally befuddles me[*]. Typically I have about,
> oh I dunno, 15 or so windows open at any one time (in linux they are nicely organised on
> 10 separate desktops) and, not being a hot-key type of person, the fact that I have to
> move the mouse all the way over to the top left to access the menu also drives me nuts. I
> have one of those ridiculously large cinema displays and I'm wearing a patch through the
> finish on my desk racking up those mouse-miles.

Shortcuts are good. I think the concept is the "File" menu will
always be in the same place, so muscle memory will eventually make you
very efficient. They broke this somewhat with OSX by making a
variable width "Application Name" menu first. It doesn't scale quite
as well to 30" monitors either. Leopard will add desktops (called
"Spaces") which will be a welcome addition.

If you are feeling as though your productivity has taken a hit, try
out QuickSilver to hold over your Linux friends. It has a steep
learning curve, and is definitely somewhat mysterious, but it is a
powerful, frightening beast when mastered. I know people who frame
almost all operations on their Macs as QuickSilver commands (I am
still a yellow-belt).

http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/

You'll want to read the various tutorials.

JD

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		Re: Mac Cursor By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 08 November 2006 18:44
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 17:01
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 16:28
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 November 2006 16:11
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:57
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:51
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:46
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:42
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:27
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:12
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 12:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 12:06
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:35
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Tue, 07 November 2006 13:27
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:32
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:21
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 November 2006 21:16
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Mon, 06 November 2006 11:09
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Mon, 06 November 2006 10:44
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 November 2006 10:31
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Mon, 06 November 2006 09:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: news.verizon.net on Sun, 05 November 2006 12:39
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Sat, 04 November 2006 07:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Jeff Hester on Fri, 03 November 2006 21:56
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 November 2006 17:14
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Edd Edmondson on Thu, 09 November 2006 03:08
		Re: Mac Cursor By: James Kuyper on Thu, 09 November 2006 03:37
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 08 November 2006 18:46
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Thu, 09 November 2006 11:47

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