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John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
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Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#22I'm disappointed in the answer to the following questions: Can I tile two windows without 17 clicks and mouse movements? Fortunately for the creator of Cinch, it seems the answer is no. Can I archive a gmail message? No?
What do you use tiling for? If anything Apple is moving even farther away from tiling with the full-screen changes in Lion.
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
About GMail archiving: Really not? (I haven't read trough this massive review yet.) At least on iOS it is possible to convince the delete button to archive. (By setting the trash folder to 'All mail', if I remember correctly.) I would imagine that Apple Mail should be at least as configurable as its iOS counterpart.
iOS supports archiving perfectly fine. No need for any tricks. Lion kinda does. You can archive but doing that will actually create an “Archive” folder and moves the mail there. That’s not the expected behavior when using Gmail. (The expected behavior would be to move the mail to the “All Messages” folder, or, in Gmail lingo, to remove all labels from the message. iOS does that, Lion doesn’t.)
Archiving is handled through IMAP delete by default. Check your GMail settings and go to the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab. Most likely your setting for "When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted" is "Archive the message (default)."
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
iOS supports archiving perfectly fine. No need for any tricks. Lion kinda does. You can archive but doing that will actually create an “Archive” folder and moves the mail there. That’s not the expected behavior when using Gmail. (The expected behavior would be to move the mail to the “All Messages” folder, or, in Gmail lingo, to remove all labels from the message. iOS does that, Lion doesn’t.)
Archiving is handled through IMAP delete by default. Check your GMail settings and go to the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab. Most likely your setting for "When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted" is "Archive the message (default)."
But I want to be able to delete mails (anywhere). I don’t want to repurpose the delete button, no way.
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#25From page 13 of the review:
"With ZFS out of the picture, Brtfs presumably eliminated due to its licensing, and future development of ReiserFS uncertain, its hard to see where Apple will get the modern file system that it so desperately needs other than by creating one itself."
There is one BSD licensed option I can think of: HammerFS. However, considering the fact that the creator of BFS is an Apple employee, I could totally envision them creating their own from scratch.
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#26I'm disappointed in the answer to the following questions: Can I tile two windows without 17 clicks and mouse movements? Fortunately for the creator of Cinch, it seems the answer is no. Can I archive a gmail message? No?
What do you use tiling for? If anything Apple is moving even farther away from tiling with the full-screen changes in Lion.
I use tiling when I want two Windows to each occupy half of the screen.
Let me ask you a question: What on God's green earth does the little green plus button do in OSX? I just pressed it three times on Chrome and here's what happened:
1) The windows was occupying the entire screen (thank you Cinch) and when I clicked the green plus, the window changed to roughly 600x800.
2) Window changed to to 600x1100.
3) Window didn't change any more.
WTF?
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#27I'm disappointed in the answer to the following questions: Can I tile two windows without 17 clicks and mouse movements? Fortunately for the creator of Cinch, it seems the answer is no. Can I archive a gmail message? No?
I use Divvy for Mac for arranging windows. I love it. http://mizage.com/divvy/#divvyMac
I'm a fan of SizeUp.
http://irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#28Love the (lack of) scrollbars. My perfect OS would have no visible window chrome at all, no edges, no title bar, no buttons, nothing other than my work. The other bits would fade in as needed, then disappear again. not sure how exactly though...
It seems like your perfect WM is a tiling one. :)
Like Xmonad.
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
About GMail archiving: Really not? (I haven't read trough this massive review yet.) At least on iOS it is possible to convince the delete button to archive. (By setting the trash folder to 'All mail', if I remember correctly.) I would imagine that Apple Mail should be at least as configurable as its iOS counterpart.
Yeah... And then you delete how?
Umm, the point of GMail is to never delete anything anymore. I love being able to search through my years of old mail.
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#30I would love to see serious developer tools integrate the new file/state APIs creatively.
- Will it be possible to populate the list of previous file versions from another source, like a git or svn repo?
- Could the application state API include a shell intelligently reopening itself and launching the development environment that was running before a restart?
- Can applications read old versions of files edited in another application? E.g. could I tell Chrome to view a page in one tab, and in the next tab view the version of that page from a week ago to compare differences?