Re: A simple hate - mac osx hiding

2008-09-27 Thread Roger Burton West
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:50:15PM +0100, Matthew King wrote: >Joshua Juran writes: >> Actually, the entire application is hidden (i.e. all its windows), by >> Option-clicking any other window or the desktop. And the hidden app >> moves to the end of the Command-Tab rotation, so Command-Shift-Tab

Re: A simple hate - mac osx hiding

2008-09-27 Thread Gabriel Guzman
jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 09:28:49AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-09-26, at 11:13, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: Unless of course you accidentally hit option-click (or on my pc- keyboard alt-click) on a window. Then the window you were just working

Re: A simple hate - mac osx hiding

2008-09-27 Thread jrodman
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 09:28:49AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-09-26, at 11:13, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: > >Unless of course you accidentally hit option-click (or on my pc- > >keyboard alt-click) on a window. Then the window you were just > >working with is hidden, > > Actual

Re: A simple hate - mac osx hiding

2008-09-27 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
On Sep 27, 2008, at 13:16, Velichko Karakostov wrote: Actually you can show the hidden apps in the dock by setting: defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES in the terminal, and then restarting the dock by: killall Dock A big thanks to you for that tip. There's no excuse however fo

Re: A simple hate - mac osx hiding

2008-09-27 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2008-09-26, at 11:13, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: Unless of course you accidentally hit option-click (or on my pc- keyboard alt-click) on a window. Then the window you were just working with is hidden, Actually, the whole application is hidden, all of its windows. which means it i

Re: A simple hate - mac osx hiding

2008-09-27 Thread Matthew King
Joshua Juran writes: > On Sep 26, 2008, at 9:13 AM, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: > >> Unless of course you accidentally hit option-click (or on my pc- >> keyboard alt-click) on a window. Then the window you were just >> working with is hidden, which means it is not minimized to the dock, >

Re: A simple hate - mac osx hiding

2008-09-27 Thread Velichko Karakostov
jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: Then the window you were just working with is hidden, which means it is not minimized to the dock, or in fact listed anywhere in the ui. The best part is that it's quite possible to not even know what you hid, and there is no way to find out. Actually you can

Re: A simple hate - mac osx hiding

2008-09-26 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 26, 2008, at 9:13 AM, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: Unless of course you accidentally hit option-click (or on my pc- keyboard alt-click) on a window. Then the window you were just working with is hidden, which means it is not minimized to the dock, or in fact listed anywhere in the

Re: A simple hate - mac osx hiding

2008-09-26 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 26 Sep 2008, at 17:13, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: Unless of course you accidentally hit option-click (or on my pc- keyboard alt-click) on a window. Then the window you were just working with is hidden It is? Not on mine it's not. Which is as shame because I quite liked the sound

A simple hate - mac osx hiding

2008-09-26 Thread jrodman
Mac OS X has an ability to hide applications. This functionality is completely pointless to my workflow, which consists of use of "Spaces" virtual desktops and suchlike. That's fine, I don't have to use it. It's nicely tucked into a consistent location under the application menu of the applicatio