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adamtki · Jun 24, 2002, 03:55 AM

Ever try to hide a bunch of apps using command-h and a classic apps pops up to the top and all of a sudden, you have to grab that mouse and go to the right menu to hide the app instead?

Or even if you're just using a classic app and you want to hide it, the habits you learned using os x tells you to use command-h, but it doesn't work. So you go to the right menu to hide it.

When OS 9.2 was release, I was very suprised they hadn't added command-h and the hide menu command to the app menu in classic. I don't see why they decided not to do this.

Granted classic is classic (yogi bearism) so we shouldn't mess with it too much to make it behave and look like OS X apps, but there are some things Apple should tweak to bring better consistency to the OS X experience. But I doubt if this will ever change since we all witnessed OS 9's funeral at the last WWDC.

CharlesS · Jun 24, 2002, 04:08 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by adamtki:
Ever try to hide a bunch of apps using command-h and a classic apps pops up to the top and all of a sudden, you have to grab that mouse and go to the right menu to hide the app instead?

Or even if you're just using a classic app and you want to hide it, the habits you learned using os x tells you to use command-h, but it doesn't work. So you go to the right menu to hide it.

When OS 9.2 was release, I was very suprised they hadn't added command-h and the hide menu command to the app menu in classic. I don't see why they decided not to do this.

Granted classic is classic (yogi bearism) so we shouldn't mess with it too much to make it behave and look like OS X apps, but there are some things Apple should tweak to bring better consistency to the OS X experience. But I doubt if this will ever change since we all witnessed OS 9's funeral at the last WWDC.<hr /></blockquote>Some Classic apps have Command-H do something else, and this would conflict with them.

Just option-click on another running app to hide the app. This is faster than going to the keyboard for command-H anyway.

waffffffle · Jun 24, 2002, 04:23 AM

If you want it that badly then download Keyboard Meastro off of versiontracker and enable it as a hotkey. I also have shift-command-H enabled for hide others.

adamtki · Jun 24, 2002, 12:28 PM

Keyboard Maestro sounds like a good workaround, but from a ui developer's point of view, it's a very obvious inconsistency. I know that many classic apps use the command-h for something else. Even the os x version of photoshop has it mapped to something else. I wonder what the apple ui guidelines say about this.

msuper69 · Jun 24, 2002, 01:14 PM

I'd rather see Apple spend development resources on OS X. Classic is a dead-end and the sooner it goes away the better.

macmike42 · Jun 25, 2002, 12:21 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by msuper69:
I'd rather see Apple spend development resources on OS X. Classic is a dead-end and the sooner it goes away the better.<hr /></blockquote>Correction: Classic is legacy support. As "The Steve" said, it's dead to developers, but certainly not users. The fact that it runs as an "environment" and not as the base of the OS is why OS X is stable, and Windows XP is still, well, not quite.

Also, LaunchBar has this feature (command-H hiding classic apps, what, you though I was off-topic?!). I thought it was a great idea until I tried to "Hide Extras" in Photoshop. Damn non-reconfigurable keyboard shortcuts! If you are living without LaunchBar, go get it <a href="http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/" target="_blank">now</a> and throw away all your other screen-hogging launchers.