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What Leopard app is this?!?
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it's amazing how fast these responses come sometimes.
what i'm wondering is why exposé would need it's own button. does the button arrange all windows or application windows? is it customizable? i'm guessing so, but it's hard to imagine a single button for exposé when a lot of people, me included, use the many exposé functions. not only that, i've got function keys, hot corners and mouse buttons all devoted to exposé, dashboard and spaces (when leopard ships). is all the redundancy really necessary?
I guess the idea is to give people more options, so they can work exactly in the way that feels natural to them. i do think, however, that it is all getting a little messy for apple, with so many different strategies for one thing.
There are many OS X users who don't know about Expose. Really. They never read the documentation and they don't know what F9, F10 and F11 keys are for, esp. that those keys aren't labelled in any other way. I imagine such additional icon in the Dock might tempt them to click it and activate Expose.
I always assumed that the icons in Leopard for Exposé, Spaces and Spotlight were just placeholders in the dev builds... Could anyone with a Leopard seed find out/confirm whether these are separate bundles in the Applications folder (for example) or whether, like Dashboard, they're just new "features" of the Dock...
function keys and their functions
Since not many people, certainly switchers may know about the 'hidden' features like Expose etc. , I wonder why Apple hasn't made them part of the standard pull down menu in the Finder.
I mean, you can copy, cut , paste, etc all straight from there, with the keyboard short cut next to it, adding Expose there would just make sense to me (including the keyboard short cut, which happens to be F11).
Same with the app switching "command -tab" , or even the slowmotion trick of expose...
If this means the finder get's too cluttered, then perhaps there should be a control panel, that gives you the option between switching on the "Extended Finder", and the "Standard Finder"......
Since not many people, certainly switchers may know about the 'hidden' features like Expose etc. , I wonder why Apple hasn't made them part of the standard pull down menu in the Finder.
I mean, you can copy, cut , paste, etc all straight from there, with the keyboard short cut next to it, adding Expose there would just make sense to me (including the keyboard short cut, which happens to be F11).
Same with the app switching "command -tab" , or even the slowmotion trick of expose...
If this means the finder get's too cluttered, then perhaps there should be a control panel, that gives you the option between switching on the "Extended Finder", and the "Standard Finder"......
I have a question. Is it really an application after all? Or is it some kind of function of the OS? Technically, is it a mac version of a .exe file? How does OS X implement it exactly?
My guess is that it's not a real application, but instead a "stub application" that calls some system library to do the real work. This is why iexplore.exe (Internet Explorer for Windows) is so small - it's a stub. By the way, the Dashboard app in the Dock in Tiger functions exactly the same way.
