I think the point is, to be able to get to the desktop easily. A sort of "hide all applications please, I have a zip on my desktop that I would like to open" kind of button.
I guess you could say, "well just open tracker and navigate to your desktop folder" but that seems like a roundabout way of doing what one button on the deskbar could achieve.
It's not a stupid idea by a long chalk, I'd be interested in seeing this debated further.
When I want to see the Desktop quickly, I just switch to an empty workspace. There are loads of them. :)
Mmm, I love them workspaces.
Workspaces, right click window to send to back, and dragging a file into a file dialog to change to that directory are three features whose lack in Windoze drives me nuts!
Not having a system wide CTRL+CursorKeys jump a word/paragraph is giving me a hard time in BeOS. From day one. That's over 7 years now... I hope Haku will eventually fix this.
Workspaces, right click window to send to back, and dragging a file into a file dialog to change to that directory are three features whose lack in Windoze drives me nuts!
I don't use that much the right click feature, but the two others are real killer ones I miss much when in Windows!
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Not having a system wide CTRL+CursorKeys jump a word/paragraph is giving me a hard time in BeOS. From day one. That's over 7 years now... I hope Haku will eventually fix this.
I dunno if our BTextView implementation does this already. Let's check... nope.
If you didn't yet suggest app/interface kit team to do it, please contact them. It should be easy and very usefull feature, indeed.
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Hi oueshcousin,
I don't see the advantage to reduce the window on the Desktop. After all that's the aim of the Deskbar to manage actives windows.
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I think the point is, to be able to get to the desktop easily. A sort of "hide all applications please, I have a zip on my desktop that I would like to open" kind of button.
I guess you could say, "well just open tracker and navigate to your desktop folder" but that seems like a roundabout way of doing what one button on the deskbar could achieve.
It's not a stupid idea by a long chalk, I'd be interested in seeing this debated further.
Open tracker suggestion
yeh I kinda like the way Tracker handles them at the moment under the Deskbar ...
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When I want to see the Desktop quickly, I just switch to an empty workspace. There are loads of them. :)
Mmm, I love them workspaces.
Workspaces, right click window to send to back, and dragging a file into a file dialog to change to that directory are three features whose lack in Windoze drives me nuts!
Not having a system wide CTRL+CursorKeys jump a word/paragraph is giving me a hard time in BeOS. From day one. That's over 7 years now... I hope Haku will eventually fix this.
Open tracker suggestion
At BeBits you can download an app which adds a replicant to deskbar that you press to hide all apps, if thats relevant.
Open tracker suggestion
I don't use that much the right click feature, but the two others are real killer ones I miss much when in Windows!
I dunno if our BTextView implementation does this already. Let's check... nope.
If you didn't yet suggest app/interface kit team to do it, please contact them. It should be easy and very usefull feature, indeed.