Originally posted by iRock
Originally posted by strobe
Drop Drawers X doesn't use up screen space. It's put away unless your cursor is on the edge of your screen.
I was unaware of this, but i find this as a grievance as well. One thing i despise is when i need to click on something near the edge of the screen and something pops up in my way (ex dock, startmenu, control strip, drop drawers).
YOU DO NOT NEED TO CLICK ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SCREEN!
I wish people would try software before criticizing it.
Please do not confuse Drop Drawers with the Control Strip, Start Menu, or Dock. The behavior is not analogous.
You only have to move the cursor to the edge, move it to the item, click, and it's all put away automatically. However you could have just tried the utility to find that out.
The Desktop is VERY easily hidden. I have well over 2 million pixels on this desktop and it's always being hidden. It's insane to manage windows to un-hide the Desktop, it's completely unnecessary.
Clearly we manage our screens differently... I despise seeing windows from apps that i'm not using, i have a 15" multiscan monitor on my pm 8600 which has a viewable of like 13, its not difficult to fill the screen, but the right edge usually shows and def the lower right corner, it is very rare that i throw anything over there. so when i want to access the desktop i just throw my mouse down right and click, then i type and hit apple-o to open the file. navigating your files via the keyboard is incredibly fast (unless you can't type worth a shit) you don't have to type the entire name to get the file you want.
But you don't know what file you have selected unless it's visible! Typing skill is a red herring.
And this is the whole point. The Desktop is easily hidden. I don't have to manage my windows so there is no comparison between your management of windows and mine. When I don't have to worry about what is visible and what isn't any window location works.
However if you use a downloads directory your temp files can be in a list which you can order by date so the one you used recently is at the top. Now THERE is an awesome temp file solution!
a temp directory is different than a download directory. Your setup for a download directory is pretty sly. I'm talking about a temp directory though. I do put my downloads on my desktop (which i may change to how you are doing it now), but along with them i put any new files or projects i'm working on. saving new projects on the desktop is quick and easy, opening them via an app is also easy, no navigation in the open window dialog box, just hit apple-D type the name hit enter. wanna open a file from the finder, throw the mouse down in the lower right corner click, or better yet apple-tab to the finder, type the name hit apple-o or apple-p if you just want to print the doc. you typically get the file you want after typiing the first 3 letters. your hand never needs to leave the keyboard
But you must have the magical ability to know which files you have selected since they are hidden.
If you switch to the Finder and your temp folder is open you can do the same thing. The only difference is it's actually visible.
Like you said, command-tab type three letters. Wow, the temp window comes to the FOREGROUND and thus is VISIBLE and thus I can see what I'm doing. There is no advantage to the Desktop with temp files.
I'm not saying drop drawers is a crappy program and no one should use it. It is very slick, especially for those people addicted to their mice. Mice are good too, however, it is a slow way to get things done (aside from truely graphical things of course or controls for say a game). However navigation and commands can be done via the keyboard much more quickly than via the mouse...and personally i don't want to sit in front of my computers any more than necessary
Then stop wasting time 'managing' windows.
