yeah the tabs are really great but, It really would be nice if I could stop moving my window from side to side looking for the Tab behind the one I am on!
An excelent Mac OS X Finder replacement is Path Finder by cocoatech. http://www.cocoatech.com/ This doesn't relate to some of the problems that Ars talked about, but surely solves alot of the shortcommings in the Apple Finder.
In Chimera tabbed windows, being the full window, are closed by "shift cmd w", and tabs are closed by "cmd w". Which actually, following previous Mac apps/os and I'm sure Apple guidelines, should be switched. You can also close the tab by control clicking the tab. It seem to me to follow the previous apps/os implementing the small version of the close, minimize, and maximize buttons in the tabs would solve some of the problems that you speak of. I guess the close button would close the tab. The minimize could send it to the Dock, for way later viewing? The maximize to bring the tab to a new window. I realize that this changes the way it works for full windows. But its a tab it should have some differences, yet keep familiarity and some simplicity to the user. It would be great to actually see this be brought to the entire os.
Smart Tags would prove a monopolistic tactic behind internet explorer being tied to windows to win the browser war (ie is actually better than netscape). With microsoft owning the browser market, then using that position (with smart tags) to push users to microsoft related sites, would prove more of the DOJ case. The case is still on just in a lower court. They need as little "continued monopoly" press as they can get. I'm sure they are not including it just because users complained... I seriously doubt they are not including it, "at this time" for the users purpose.
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yeah the tabs are really great but, It really would be nice if I could stop moving my window from side to side looking for the Tab behind the one I am on!
An excelent Mac OS X Finder replacement is Path Finder by cocoatech.
http://www.cocoatech.com/
This doesn't relate to some of the problems that Ars talked about, but surely solves alot of the shortcommings in the Apple Finder.
In Chimera tabbed windows, being the full window, are closed by "shift cmd w", and tabs are closed by "cmd w". Which actually, following previous Mac apps/os and I'm sure Apple guidelines, should be switched.
You can also close the tab by control clicking the tab. It seem to me to follow the previous apps/os implementing the small version of the close, minimize, and maximize buttons in the tabs would solve some of the problems that you speak of.
I guess the close button would close the tab. The minimize could send it to the Dock, for way later viewing? The maximize to bring the tab to a new window.
I realize that this changes the way it works for full windows. But its a tab it should have some differences, yet keep familiarity and some simplicity to the user.
It would be great to actually see this be brought to the entire os.
agreed...
when an firmware update disabled my ram, Apple sent me some new ram to use until the problem was fixed.
Smart Tags would prove a monopolistic tactic behind internet explorer being tied to windows to win the browser war (ie is actually better than netscape). With microsoft owning the browser market, then using that position (with smart tags) to push users to microsoft related sites, would prove more of the DOJ case. The case is still on just in a lower court. They need as little "continued monopoly" press as they can get. I'm sure they are not including it just because users complained... I seriously doubt they are not including it, "at this time" for the users purpose.