Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
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Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
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Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#2Am I the only one who hardly sees any value in window managers? About 99% of the time, I'm wanting only one window visible at a time, with others quickly accessible via cmd-tab and cmd=`.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#3This looks neat. I'm going to have to play around with it soon. As of now I've been using SizeUp, which is way less configurable, but great at giving you that top/left/right/bottom (and corners) placement you may be looking for.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#4I use SizeUp for window management. Not perfect, but for most tasks I've found it more than good enough.
Will be giving Slate a trial period to see if I like it more.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#5Back in the Dark Ages, before OS X was truly usable, I rocked ion on my FreeBSD machine and MachTEN (to run Emacs) on my Macs. This experience conditioned me to not fight the platform -- slate, as nice as it looks, seems to me a great deal like fighting the platform. Is it?
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#6Slate has been discussed a few times recently. For more background, here are a couple other HN threads:
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#7Looks neat, albeit for me personally it might be a little over the top.
I use Moom (http://manytricks.com/moom/) for quite a while and I'm happy with it so far as it integrates perfectly into the overall UI of OSX.
You have of course also convenient (and customizable) shortcuts for actions like 'Move & Zoom Window to Left Half', which is quite handy for example for webdevelopment on a smaller screen (Macbook), where you might want your browser to occupy one half and your editor the other half of the screen.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#8Back in the Dark Ages, before OS X was truly usable, I rocked ion on my FreeBSD machine and MachTEN (to run Emacs) on my Macs. This experience conditioned me to not fight the platform -- slate, as nice as it looks, seems to me a great deal like fighting the platform. Is it?
Maybe so. But I don't see a problem with that.
OSX window management currently satisfies average users, but not power users. And since power users are exactly the kind of people who can do something about it, they are doing it.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#9For a GUI configurable and generally well behaved manager look at Divvy: http://mizage.com/divvy/
It's very customizable and has worked for me across at least three versions of os x.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#10Back in the Dark Ages, before OS X was truly usable, I rocked ion on my FreeBSD machine and MachTEN (to run Emacs) on my Macs. This experience conditioned me to not fight the platform -- slate, as nice as it looks, seems to me a great deal like fighting the platform. Is it?
Maybe so. But I don't see a problem with that. OSX window management currently satisfies average users, but not power users. And since power users are exactly the kind of people who can do something about it, they are doing it.
I think the distinction between "power users" and "average users" is meaningless. A user is someone who derives utility from a given platform.