Andy Hughes
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Over time I have learned that one of the most important aspects of computing is controling the size of the windows I deal with (the real estate on my screen, and the way the files are presented). I love OSX but there are some controls I want to have that I can't figure out, and I think they would be very nice. Maybe there is a system setting or preference that I can't figure out, or maybe some shareware could help, but I can't find them. Anyway, here is what I want to do...
1. I want to set the size of all windows in the finder and my applications I open to open to a size I specify. I have a nice 17" screen, and I keep my doc on the right (cause it feels more like my old friend the pull down in OS 9) and I keep a bit of desktop real estate visible, which is the width of the standard digital clock that I keep in the lower right of my screen. So, what I want is EVERY window I open to go to the max size and bump against the top, left, bottom, and right side of my monitor and against that clock edge. Why? Because I am trying to be neat and work and get the most out of my desktop space for each window I use. I can figure out how to get between applications and between windows in an application, but I want that nice generous feeling of using a large window... all the time.. Also, when I open a new window in the same program I want it to lay right on top of the old one, not staggered overand down a bit... which messes up my layout described above.
2. I like to show my files by lists, with small icons, with the various kinds of the list items to sort by, like date and kind, etc. and I AM SICK of opening a window and being half way down in the list!!! I want to set my windows to always open at the top of the window when I open it new, and I don't have to scroll to the top to get to my most recently used items or the top of an alpha list. If they would do this and maximize the size I specify as listed above in item 1, I would feel like I was a LOT more in charge of my computing environment.
3. I want a setting so ALL of my finder windows to do this and look the same. They can keep the KIND OF LISTING I did last (like alpha or last date), but I want them to always open to the size I want and top of the list.
I can figure out how to resize them when I need to move thing around between windows, but if I close a window in the finder and open it again, I want it back to my standard full size configuration.
I have searched in shareware domains and here in osx but I don't seem to come up with a match.
So, I turn to you, oh wise and compassionate osx users, and ask
GIVE ME CONTROL OF MY WINDOWS!
It seems fundamental, but right now when I open something, I don't know what I am going to get and I grow weary of it. Expose is cool, but day to day I need order and control!
1. I want to set the size of all windows in the finder and my applications I open to open to a size I specify. I have a nice 17" screen, and I keep my doc on the right (cause it feels more like my old friend the pull down in OS 9) and I keep a bit of desktop real estate visible, which is the width of the standard digital clock that I keep in the lower right of my screen. So, what I want is EVERY window I open to go to the max size and bump against the top, left, bottom, and right side of my monitor and against that clock edge. Why? Because I am trying to be neat and work and get the most out of my desktop space for each window I use. I can figure out how to get between applications and between windows in an application, but I want that nice generous feeling of using a large window... all the time.. Also, when I open a new window in the same program I want it to lay right on top of the old one, not staggered overand down a bit... which messes up my layout described above.
2. I like to show my files by lists, with small icons, with the various kinds of the list items to sort by, like date and kind, etc. and I AM SICK of opening a window and being half way down in the list!!! I want to set my windows to always open at the top of the window when I open it new, and I don't have to scroll to the top to get to my most recently used items or the top of an alpha list. If they would do this and maximize the size I specify as listed above in item 1, I would feel like I was a LOT more in charge of my computing environment.
3. I want a setting so ALL of my finder windows to do this and look the same. They can keep the KIND OF LISTING I did last (like alpha or last date), but I want them to always open to the size I want and top of the list.
I can figure out how to resize them when I need to move thing around between windows, but if I close a window in the finder and open it again, I want it back to my standard full size configuration.
I have searched in shareware domains and here in osx but I don't seem to come up with a match.
So, I turn to you, oh wise and compassionate osx users, and ask
GIVE ME CONTROL OF MY WINDOWS!
It seems fundamental, but right now when I open something, I don't know what I am going to get and I grow weary of it. Expose is cool, but day to day I need order and control!
