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Jasoco · Jul 1, 2003, 08:48 AM

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Jasoco Guide to Mac OS X Desktop Customization

stew · Jul 1, 2003, 10:03 AM

Originally posted by silverghost:
hi stew, just few comments on your haxie- will you be releasing it to the nice people here on the forums in the future?

I plan to, but I can't promise anything as getting my diploma has a higher priority right now.

i tried playing around with a little app from apples dev page that hides the menu bar and the dock. the menu bar slides down from the top when the mouse goes near the area that the menu bar was,

That's possible, no problem.
[/b][/quote] but the dock gets killed and cant be used- that sucks 'cause i like the dock. in your haxie does the menu bar and dock stay hidden completely ?[/b][/quote]
Currently it hides both menu bar an Dock competely. Making the menu bar appear on demand is easy, it would be harder with the Dock. Anyhow, I don't use the Dock very much, I prefer LaunchBar and LiteSwitch (as you say, keyboard is faster

) and we'll see how important the Dock will be once we all have Expos�.

mrtew · Jul 1, 2003, 10:40 AM

Originally posted by silverghost:
...the menu bar slides down from the top when the mouse goes near the area that the menu bar was, but the dock gets killed and cant be used....

I'd love it if my menubar would appear only when the cursor actually hits the top of the screen and the dock would appear only when the cursor hits the side or bottom of the screen. That 'getting near' the dock thing drives me nutso.... why not use the actual border of the screen as a trigger, similar to the corners for a screensaver?

And for those who question 'Why?'; my reason is that I am a big BIG fan of desktop pictures and having the top 20 pixels cropped at all times is something I could live without most of the time. I use my TiBook at work all day as some kind of Giant superexpensive iPod while I work on a WinDoze crapbox and with iTunes I have no need for the menubar or even the interface at all. I'd love to toggle them off and just see the pictures on the desktop. And while I am surfing at home I don't need it either... all the controls on my browsers are on the window pretty much. I think I'd better keep it for Photoshop though :-] I'm holding my breath for the release of this great Ape.

lavar78 · Jul 1, 2003, 02:42 PM

Originally posted by mrtew:
great Ape.

... Great Ape. Beagley, Beagley.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

cmoive · Jul 1, 2003, 04:33 PM

Theme:SS Studio Pro
Icons:WOA Graphite,Snow.E2,Safari Flavours
Wallpaper:Windows in trash

honz · Jul 1, 2003, 06:28 PM

Theme: Milk by max (modded)
Icons: Mostly Snow.E2
Wall: from baseboard.net

Sage · Jul 1, 2003, 06:49 PM

cmoive - Could you please post up that desktop of yours?

cmoive · Jul 1, 2003, 06:51 PM

http://membres.lycos.fr/cmove/Fond%20d'ecrans/12456643trash_windows_please-med.png

Sage · Jul 1, 2003, 07:13 PM

Thank ya.

Zimphire · Jul 2, 2003, 12:25 AM

I have a pretty boring desktop. Sometimes my DTPs are flashier, but when I am doing design work, I like this one.

Click to see the bigger version.

mrtew · Jul 2, 2003, 12:26 AM

Originally posted by cmoive:
http://membres.lycos.fr/cmove/Fond%20d'ecrans/12456643trash_windows_please-med.png

I like that, but the colors don't do anything for me so I made a brushed variation. Click it for full size!

Sage · Jul 2, 2003, 12:42 AM

mrtew - That's awesome!

I know I'm really stretching my limit today by requesting so many things, but would you mind making a normal 1024x768 one? If I tell OS X to stretch it, it looks funny, and I don't have the graphics arts skills to move it myself while keeping that neat chiseled look.

mrtew · Jul 2, 2003, 01:20 AM

Originally posted by Sage:
mrtew - That's awesome! I know I'm really stretching my limit today by requesting so many things, but would you mind making a normal 1024x768 one? If I tell OS X to stretch it, it looks funny, and I don't have the graphics arts skills to move it myself while keeping that neat chiseled look.

mrtew · Jul 2, 2003, 01:21 AM

Originally posted by Sage:
mrtew - That's awesome! I know I'm really stretching my limit today by requesting so many things, but would you mind making a normal 1024x768 one? If I tell OS X to stretch it, it looks funny, and I don't have the graphics arts skills to move it myself while keeping that neat chiseled look.

Sure, here you go!

iFix Rene · Jul 2, 2003, 10:32 AM

cmoive

Could you please explain how to get the divider lines in the dock, they are cool!

thx in advance

Sage · Jul 2, 2003, 11:09 AM

Originally posted by mrtew:
Sure, here you go!

Thank you sir!

OwlBoy · Jul 2, 2003, 01:26 PM

Originally posted by iFix Rene:
cmoive

Could you please explain how to get the divider lines in the dock, they are cool!

thx in advance

take a folder, give it a dividing icon, name it "DIvider01.app" and drop it on the right side of your dock. It should hop over to the other side, then you can place it where you like.

("DIvider01.app" is just an example, you could make it "BillGates.app" and it would not matter, you just need the .app on a folder.)

-Owl

iFix Rene · Jul 2, 2003, 06:19 PM

oke, i get it, and the divider line is an icon
pasted on whatever.app

thnx

!

Jasoco · Jul 2, 2003, 07:42 PM

A tip: If you name the app with spaces instead, there won't be a tooltip when the mouse goes over it.

Fluid · Jul 3, 2003, 03:20 AM

Theme: SmoothStripes modified for Panther
Wallpaper: Parks
Icons: Assorted, mostly Apple default
Applications: AliasMenu; Tinker Tool for dock placement