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does not work for me (Finder; 10.8.4). shift+green-button is the same as just the green button. do you have a plugin or something?
It depends on the app. It doesn't work on Finder, but does on Chrome, Sparrow etc
"especially among Ruby on Rails developers"
why? is there any feature tied to the macosx that makes it worth to pay the mac tax??? or even to the hardware (that it's a wintel platform (and can be have for way less money) since apple decided to abandon IBM cpus?)
Honest question here: Why would anyone ever think OS X has "world-class interface design"? It's missing basic interface features that have been bog standard in Ubuntu/Windows for years, like any sort of proper window management. Hell, the maximize button actually doesn't work - it has such inconsistent use that you have almost no hope of actually getting what you want out of it. To get even decent window management,…
Add the "path" menu to your Finder window toolbar. You now have access to all parent folders of the current directory in two clicks. It's one of the first tweaks I make setting up a new OSX install. Along with dumping "all my files" from the sidebar and as the new window default.
After using Ubuntu for most of the summer don't get me started on the UI inconsistencies I experienced there. I don't disagree with you that there are things in OSX which also don't make sense, by my overall impression is that the UI of OSX is much more refined than what's available for Linux out of the box. YMMV.
Honest question here: Why would anyone ever think OS X has "world-class interface design"? It's missing basic interface features that have been bog standard in Ubuntu/Windows for years, like any sort of proper window management. Hell, the maximize button actually doesn't work - it has such inconsistent use that you have almost no hope of actually getting what you want out of it. To get even decent window management,…
The worst example of where this doesn't help is the Zoom button. Not the maximise button, as it's never been called that, and doesn't actually maximise - it resizes the window to the most useful size. For example, my BBEdit window gets resized to the width of the text, but the height of the screen. Of course, many apps just make it fill the screen (incorrectly), leading to the 'maximise' button instead.
(Also, you can command-click on a window title to get a menu that allows you to go up. Two clicks instead of one, but it's there. This works on folders, files, and URLs)
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does not work for me (Finder; 10.8.4). shift+green-button is the same as just the green button. do you have a plugin or something?
It depends on the app. It doesn't work on Finder, but does on Chrome, Sparrow etc
Why oh why would "The de facto standard platform for web development is the Macbook"? Web is browser interpreted, last time I checked safari was not the most used browser (even it it has port for windows) http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp "especially among Ruby on Rails developers" why? is there any feature tied to the macosx that makes it worth to pay the mac tax??? or even to the hardware (that i…
Honest question here: Why would anyone ever think OS X has "world-class interface design"? It's missing basic interface features that have been bog standard in Ubuntu/Windows for years, like any sort of proper window management. Hell, the maximize button actually doesn't work - it has such inconsistent use that you have almost no hope of actually getting what you want out of it. To get even decent window management,…
And if you actually think that Ubuntu's woeful file manager is anyway comparable to OSX Finder then I really can't help you.
I ran Linux on the desktop for almost 20 years, till recently taking a Rails job where EVERYONE used Macs, and finally bought a MBP. This refrain, "OSX is Unix," seems to be very common, but I'm not feeling it. As I just tweeted today: "How much 'Unix' is in OS X when I can't use CTRL-s to freeze the terminal? Pfft." For something that's supposedly got all the power of Unix, it sure doesn't seem to expose much of it…
1. You can run XQuartz full screen, and can even run a nice wm like xmonad. This isn't perfect, but isn't entirely bad.
2. If you have VMWare, you can just run your workhorse of choice in a convenient vm. Full screen VMs under 10.8 are actually pretty great when you're just on the laptop - you can just three finger swipe from OS X into bsd/linux/whatever and then back again.
I personally like the VMWare option, since it means that OS X gets to do all the power management and all of that, and there's no fiddling to do in the virtual machine to make things work with the hardware. And you totally own the vm environment, so you can do whatever you like to it.
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It depends on the app. It doesn't work on Finder, but does on Chrome, Sparrow etc
Non universal behavior in a universal button is a pretty sad state of affairs.
For a browser this could be full screen. For a word processor this could be just enough to see the page.