hot corner users, dire barbarians each one
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
upper-left for show desktop is useful
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
I have never had an upper left corner. OMG
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
I made it into "post I Miss You youtube"
upper left is apple menu, you monster
bottom left and right are useful.
if the only launching you ever do with spotlight is just running applications it's just about fine (although the amount of crap i have to scroll through to launch itunes after typing "it" is kind of amazing), but alfred or launchbar are _way_ better for everything spotlight does except actual searching.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
aa, if you are a hacky terminal user you should try one of those, or quicksilver
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
― shaane, Friday, 14 October 2011 09:19 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Not judging but what do you use show desktop for? I never ever need to show my desktop.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
I installed alfred once but all it did was return snide erudite one-liners
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
I should definitely look at Alfred, been hearing good things recently
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
i have never used alfred tbf. i hear it mentioned. launchbar all the way.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
they keep threatening to resurrect quicksilver but afaict the og developer is basically insane and its open source community is not much better.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.alfredapp.com/powerpack/
http://www.alfredapp.com/images/powerpack/itunes-mini-player.jpg
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
if you don't use the desktop then obv show desktop is not useful. i just use the default expose shortcut for that when i need it.
bottom left hot corner is lock screen for me.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
oh, wait, I thought the user was searching for "Polite Dance Song" and got Elliott Smith, nm xp
xxp oh great, more helvetica
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
the basic thing is spotlight is so much more than a launcher and as a result the UI isn't really optimized for launching stuff (and certainly not the kind of object verb subject stuff that even the basic dedicated launchers do). so get a real launcher, disable/reuse the spotlight shortcut, and one the rare occasions you need to use it's full text search then click the spotlight icon or use the keyboard shortcut that opens the dedicated spotlight window.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
that is how i break it down
i use the desktop as a scratchpad so flicking between apps and the desktop comes in handy. its usually empty.
hahaha re: the hate for upper left. i chose it just cause the gesture of flinging the pointer up-left to reveal felt natural.
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
caek, what kind of object verb subject stuff do you do on a regular basis?
― lukas, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
ftp, email, append to clipboard
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
probably some other stuff
when I picture caek using his mac, it looks like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbpCLqryN-Q
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i can imagine using those
― lukas, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
i use the desktop as a scratchpad
Sorry, I don't get what you mean. Temp file storage (e.g. text files), or an actual scratchpad like a big magna-doodle?
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
real launchers also have a bunch of stuff built in that is basically just executing an applescript but is convenient to have prewritten (play/pause, show someone's phone number in big text, drill through folders, move, delete...)
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
when i use a mac it is more like http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134336/focus=134979
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
jeez how does the mailman get your replies back to ILX so quickly
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
another thing i use it for is searches, e.g. i can type cmd-space then "a z" then space then type some text and a browser tab launches with it searched for on amazon. if i type "a z d e" then it searches amazon.de.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
it also has clipboard history. i hit cmd-opt-\ and i get a list of the last 40 things i put in my clipboard. i can either scroll down or type a few letters from the entry i want, then hit turn to put the item back in the clipboard. this is on the verge of becoming bloatware, but LB does a way better job of it than the dedicated clipboard things that i don't mind. clipboard history is one of those things you don't know how you lived without.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
youre just asking to have that used against you in a court of law
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
I love LB and probably use 15% of it's features.
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
lol xp my current history is basically just me stalking you on ilx
http://i.minus.com/ibaAv2d4pQqRqx.png
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
tbh unless I'm doing a search, I never look at the UI of Spotlight
I usually just type the first few characters of an app name and hit enter
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
chilling xp
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
so caek, you're a launchbar guy? don't quite recognize that launcher
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
ha at me uploading my government phone number to ilx in a screenshot
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
we need a "indefensible: stallman" thread
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
scratchpad is the wrong word. i just treat it like an actual desk. shit I'm working on goes there and i clean up when I'm done.
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
ah righto
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
btw sorry to rail against the whole metaphor of a desktop, I just hate things being on my desktop and forget that other people use it for real things
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
gassée on nextstep/be os: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/the-story-behind-apples-next-os-in-1996-video/63196
― markers, Friday, 11 November 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
I'll watch the video when I'm not at work but this quote:
“Thank god that didn’t happen, because I hated Apple’s management.”
..is completely hilarious in context. Had Gassée made the sale, he could have probably quit Be/Apple and retired a rich man. He basically flubbed the entire negotiation. On the other side of the coin, Jobs actually disliked most of the managers as well and as his influence grew upon his return, he cleaned house.
― mh, Friday, 11 November 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link