[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

From OSX DP3

The window widgets are straight-forward with the exception of the purple button on the far right that toggles "single window mode." When single window mode is activated, all but the front-most window minimize to the dock. When any other window is un-minimized from the dock, the previously active window automatically minimizes. Thus, only one un-minimized window appears on the screen at a time. This may actually be a useful feature for novice computer users, but a system-wide setting that's of use to only a certain subset of users should not be a widget on every single window in the OS! And even if the setting was applicable to everyone, the title bar is not the place to put system-wide configuration controls. Conceptually, it's as bad as adding a button for the audio volume control to the title bar of every single window!

[ManOfSteal]

Memories.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

And thank the lord they cleaned up the dock with transparent backgrounds.

"The underlines are indicate the the dock item is a running applications: yellow for the active (front-most) application and white for all others."

[Geobunny]

I'd still love to see a return of something to indicate the frontmost application. In 10.2 you could hack the dock prefs to show a blue arrow beneath the foreground application. Still unsure as to why it was removed

[ManOfSteal]

I'm hoping "TransparentDock" is updated for Tiger...I love having no background to the Dock.

[Voch]

Transparency has its limitations.

[OwlBoy]

Originally Posted by Geobunny

I'd still love to see a return of something to indicate the frontmost application. In 10.2 you could hack the dock prefs to show a blue arrow beneath the foreground application. Still unsure as to why it was removed

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by OwlBoy

He means by looking at the dock and I agree with him

[alephOne]

Yeah, I always thought single-window mode was gonna be cool. But with Exposé it isn't really needed anymore.

[solbo]

Oddly enough they still have the purple button in the resource files. Or it is in Panther, not sure about Tiger.

[smeger]

Interestingly enough, the purple button is still present in the theme resources. And if you grep HIToolbox for "SWM" (Single Window Mode), there's still a bunch of stuff there.

On a similar note, I was hacking around the other day and managed to flip a bit and make the Apple logo in the center of the menubar come back. Remember that abortion from the public beta? I was amazed that the code was still present in Panther or Tiger or whatever I was working on.

[Chuckit]

Wow. The folks at Apple really don't believe in the delete key, do they?

[hoopz]

Originally Posted by ManOfSteal

I'm hoping "TransparentDock" is updated for Tiger...I love having no background to the Dock.

If you don't mind using .APE, ClearDock 1.3 can do that for you. It's free and is Tiger compatible, but it doesn't do some of the fancier things Transparent Dock does (like customizing poofs or changing the font size of the Dock's icon labels).

[Link]

I miss the translucent title bars

[andreadeca]

Originally Posted by ManOfSteal

I'm hoping "TransparentDock" is updated for Tiger...I love having no background to the Dock.

Try using ClearDock 1.3 from Unsanity. it's freeware and does exactly what you whish.

andrea