Comments on: Forget-Me-Not http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2006/09/07/forget-me-not/ distraction in action Fri, 5 Dec 2008 08:29:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: n8 http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2006/09/07/forget-me-not/#comment-1425 n8 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:11:38 +0000 http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2006/09/07/forget-me-not/#comment-1425 Dallas - I tried installing Adium but I didn't notice any problems with the contacts window. I didn't actually *have* any contacts, so that may have been why I didn't see anything. In any case, if you can contact me by e-mail (n8gray at caltech dot edu) with any extra details you can supply I'll see if I can reproduce the problem. Dallas - I tried installing Adium but I didn’t notice any problems with the contacts window. I didn’t actually *have* any contacts, so that may have been why I didn’t see anything. In any case, if you can contact me by e-mail (n8gray at caltech dot edu) with any extra details you can supply I’ll see if I can reproduce the problem.

]]> By: n8 http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2006/09/07/forget-me-not/#comment-1208 n8 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 05:45:44 +0000 http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2006/09/07/forget-me-not/#comment-1208 Dallas -- Glad you like FMN! It's a pretty dumb app right now. Getting it to do something non-annoying with new windows it's never seen before would mean making it a lot smarter, and I don't even know if there's any universally sensible policy for them. I'll take a look at the Adium thing. Some windows (mostly non-Cocoa apps) don't respond well to being resized by the accessibility API. Word, for example, has some problems. There's actually a way to have apps be ignored completely by FMN, so if it just makes you miserable for some app it can be done. I'm also thinking of adding a way to mark certain apps "do not resize". Everything except the UI is dead simple. I've had the same thought about dock hiding. FMN's plugin architecture would make it easy to add something like that. Thanks for the feedback! Feel free to rate us on MacUpdate if you're feeling spunky! ;-) Dallas — Glad you like FMN! It’s a pretty dumb app right now. Getting it to do something non-annoying with new windows it’s never seen before would mean making it a lot smarter, and I don’t even know if there’s any universally sensible policy for them.

I’ll take a look at the Adium thing. Some windows (mostly non-Cocoa apps) don’t respond well to being resized by the accessibility API. Word, for example, has some problems. There’s actually a way to have apps be ignored completely by FMN, so if it just makes you miserable for some app it can be done. I’m also thinking of adding a way to mark certain apps “do not resize”. Everything except the UI is dead simple.

I’ve had the same thought about dock hiding. FMN’s plugin architecture would make it easy to add something like that.

Thanks for the feedback! Feel free to rate us on MacUpdate if you’re feeling spunky! ;-)

]]> By: Dallas http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2006/09/07/forget-me-not/#comment-1207 Dallas Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:32:49 +0000 http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2006/09/07/forget-me-not/#comment-1207 I just discovered this today and it is exactly what I was looking for. How fortuitous! So far it seems to work pretty well! I'm not sure I like how it handles windows it doesn't have any information for, though. For instance, if you are on your small screen (my powerbook) and you create a new browser window and then switch to the larger screen (a 1600x1200 lcd display) all of the windows it 'knows' about are resized but the new browser window is not. That makes sense but maybe it could instead resize the new browser window to match the other windows of the same application? I don't know what would be best but that's something I noticed. Also, it is a bit weird with Adium's contact list window for some reason. It just doesn't seem to work right. And I would like to see the addition of the dock 'hiding' preference as something that is saved and restored. I like to have the dock hidden when I'm on the small screen of the powerbook and unhidden when I'm on the larger screen. Overall though, FMN works quite well and is far better than anything else I've found! I just discovered this today and it is exactly what I was looking for. How fortuitous! So far it seems to work pretty well! I’m not sure I like how it handles windows it doesn’t have any information for, though. For instance, if you are on your small screen (my powerbook) and you create a new browser window and then switch to the larger screen (a 1600×1200 lcd display) all of the windows it ‘knows’ about are resized but the new browser window is not. That makes sense but maybe it could instead resize the new browser window to match the other windows of the same application? I don’t know what would be best but that’s something I noticed.

Also, it is a bit weird with Adium’s contact list window for some reason. It just doesn’t seem to work right.

And I would like to see the addition of the dock ‘hiding’ preference as something that is saved and restored. I like to have the dock hidden when I’m on the small screen of the powerbook and unhidden when I’m on the larger screen.

Overall though, FMN works quite well and is far better than anything else I’ve found!

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