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Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by yaks_hairbrush »

hablahaha wrote: post #26

Speaking of menu bars... I really dislike how the current application's menu bar can infringe on the icon bar on OSX. I realize that on Windows, icons also minimize, but on OSX you can't just show all the icons like you can in Windows. If I'm in an app with a lot of menus, I have to switch to a less menu intensive app to get to an icon I want (usually Hangouts) (is there some way to change this? - Google returned not…

There's this app...

http://www.ortisoft.de/en/accessmenubarapps/

Essentially, "knock" the top of the screen twice with the mouse, and it'll switch to this application which has no menus. "Knock" twice again and it'll go back to your app.

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by statictype »

geetee wrote: post #5
dmak wrote: post #2

Every application should provide a monochrome icon!

Just got a MacBook Pro and the Dropbox icon has been bothering me. Sure enough there was a setting for this! Thanks :D

I found it (and still find it) very weird that Dropbox has an actual setting for choosing the color depth of the icon.

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by Pxtl »

One thing Microsoft learned is to empower your developers...but also assume they're absolute dicks. Since Vista, MS has learned to make the OS work around all these terrible habits. Tray icons auto-hide. The start menu is scrollable and searchable and actually digging through it is kinda discouraged. Apps that require admin permissions get annoying uac pop-up messages.

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by hnha »

malandrew wrote: post #12
GuiA wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you get to complain about these sort of things when you make the choice to use OSX.

I'm on the verge of setting up my MBP to double boot to Arch or Debian and slowly moving as much as possible to Linux. Unfortunately, neither Illustrator or Photoshop are available on Linux. Are their open-source equivalents anywhere near the quality of their Adobe counterparts yet? I've yet to try InkScape, but I know that the last time I used Gimp, it was excruciating. I would rather work via ImageMagick, RMagick o…

try krita, mypaint, darktable,rawtherapee.

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by thrownaway2424 »

harlanlewis wrote: post #13
ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #3

Isn't the better option to just not install crap on your computer? This sounds like complaining that you don't like television shows on a certain channel when you have a thousand to choose from...

Not everything that puts crap in the menubar is crap. The Google Chrome Notification is an egregious offender - it appeared without warning, ugly and unretinafied, and can only be (temporarily) removed by (1) doing everything it asks, (2) then quitting and relaunching Chrome. It's highly-visible systemwide placement for minor system-oriented tasks, and unnecessary given how much interface Chrome already has to work w…

What does this Chrome notification thing look like? I've used Chrome for years and I'm currently on Chrome 33 and I've never seen this thing.

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by poolpool »

Pxtl wrote: post #33

One thing Microsoft learned is to empower your developers...but also assume they're absolute dicks. Since Vista, MS has learned to make the OS work around all these terrible habits. Tray icons auto-hide. The start menu is scrollable and searchable and actually digging through it is kinda discouraged. Apps that require admin permissions get annoying uac pop-up messages.

One of the biggest requirements iOS was designed around was "don't trust lazy or shitty devs" and people still freak out about the huge amount of restrictions placed on apps. I'm not sure there is any winning.
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