I thought this was about hole making for a second. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_bar. I just bought a lathe last week at a fire sale so my brain is stuck in machine tool mode.
Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
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>> how do you think about defensibility? defensibility nowadays is app support and development. the more work you pour into it the more defensible it will be. I personally would gladly pay to have app constantly polished and improved. What I would not use is some vibe-coded alternative that was slopped with AI in a day and pushed to github with a tweet "i made a free X alternative" and then abandoned.
I would not. I'm not paying $40 for a taskbar replacement. And not for two years of updates and a two device limit on top. Maybe if it was $10, I could consider it. Prices for macOS apps are insane in my opinion. Everyone wants to charge yearly or every two years now too.
Seconded. $10 for 2y and Id buy.. otherwise it feels too steep a price.
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Can you expand a bit on what you mean by "Superpowered tablet os"? I'm tend to think of it as a server os with a DE, but as a backend developer I'm probably biased.
I'm talking about the desktop environment explicitly, not the underlying OS. To me, GNOME and Pantheon (elementaryOS DE) strongly resemble e.g. iPadOS or Android running on a tablet for a few reasons: - Chunky heavily padded touch-optimized UI elements (even when no touch capability is present) - By default, minimize button not present in titlebars - Near total abandonment of menubars in favor of mobile-style "hambur…
> By default, minimize button not present in titlebars
This is explained by the ElementaryOS H.I.G.:
> Apps should save their current state when closed so they can be reopened right to where the user left off. Typically, closing and reopening an app should be indistinguishable from the legacy concept of minimizing and unminimizing an app; that is, all elements should be saved including open documents, scroll position, undo history, etc.
> Because of the strong convention of saved state, elementary OS does not expose or optimize for legacy minimize behavior; e.g. there is no minimize button, and the Multitasking View does not distinguish minimized windows.
Re: Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
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#265I had a go. Nice work. Two minor irritations I thought it would help with, but it didn't:
- Lots of iTerm shells open: easy to access, but iTerm’s window titles don't make it easy to find the one I want, and neither does this
- (the big one) Lots of browser windows each with multiple tabs make it hard to find the tab you want if it's not at the front of the window it's in. Would be more compelling if there were a way for it to look inside (eg,) Brave and represent each tab as a window
Otherwise: some lag in updating thumbnails occasionally confusing; it doesn't seem to do anything clever to cope when things spill off the right-hand end (eg, good time to group by app if you weren't already); quitting did not bring the dock back, as claimed.
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#266I don't "get" this: I switch between Mac and Windows a lot. If you prefer the way Windows works, just use Windows! Both platforms have their merits.
I totally get this.
At work, my OS is largely dictated by my employer. At home, the choice is mine, but largely influenced by the use case and application availability.
Thus, I do not use any one OS exclusively and and likely never will. I prefer Linux, but find macOS better than Windows for all but one thing: window management. Even Windows 95 absolutely trounces macOS there. I just don't understand how macOS can be so bad at it. Every attempt to make it better (e.g., Spaces and Stage Manager) takes them even further astray.
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who maintains the list of all of these a la carte subscriptions? Your credit card company? Seems like a pain to have to review it every month and discern the service from the ACH transaction name. Additionally, it would be a reactive approach, as you would already need to be charged for the month you didn't want in order for it to show up on the ACH ledger. I don't have a problem with paying subscriptions, I have a p…
I have a budget, which is an excel file, that lists my fixed expenses. I add a row, select the frequency, and let the formula I wrote a while back work out how much discretionary funds are left. There are dozens of other software products out there that also serve this purpose as well as actual paper ledgers you could use instead.
Ahh but there's the rub. If I buy the software one time, I never have to think about it again and I never have to add it to a spreadsheet/peripheral software.
Re: Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
#269Looks really cool. just downloaded it will definately give it a try. nice UI btw
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#270Back in the days when I used to use windows, they way I navigate through the task bar was window key + app index (manually sorted). Same way i navigate through tabs in my browser.
This, of course, can be my own ergonomic feature, but using a task bar without this feature feels clunky.
And since full-screen apps on MacOS work on different workspaces, and the bar is context-dependent to the workspace - this means that I have to choose to work on a maximized window or have it in my taskbar. It will be nice if there is an option to consolidate all the apps. Static, sticky, salad.
And damn, I used to pay $100-200 for an entire OS, now its $40 for a taskbar. - "Old man yells at inflated clouds"