[muglo] Re: Zooming OS X windows

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Thanks ..........Dennis
On 10-Apr-06, at 9:43 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> Hello all, I was just bitching about the way OS X windows zoom and I
> decided to find out if anyone here knows of a way to improve window
> zooming performance?
>
> My beef with OS X is that newly created windows (in Safari for e.g.)
> do not have the scroll bar flush with the right-hand side of the
> screen.
>
> It's extremely annoying because the beauty of OS X windows is that you
> can have the scroll bar at the right-side of the screen, send your
> mouse flying to edge to click on the scroll bar and not have to worry
> about _aiming_ -- your action would just use the natural edge the
> screen provides to "stop" your mouse.
>
> The ideal would be to have windows open up full-screen with the scroll
> bar flush with the screen edge. A second-best solution would be to
> have the green zoom button function to make the window as big as the
> screen.
>
> Presently, I have to resize EACH AND EVERY window to full screen every
> time I open it. It's damned annoying when I click in another app and
> bring it to the forefront by accident just because the current
> application is not using the screen's edges to their fullest
> potential.
>
> I also see this as a fairly important design flaw that frustrates
> Windows users. Windows may suck as a GUI, but their apps are less
> prone to accidental application switches.
>
> Anyway, any suggestions on how to force OS X to open up every window
> in a predictable and usable manner, by default?
>
> PS I just experimented with Safari. I moved the screen size selecter
> doo-dad to the bottom right corner to maximize the window and prevent
> dead space at the bottom and right sides of the screen. Quit Safari.
> It remembered the position. Opened a new window. There was a minute 1
> pixel space between the right side of the scroll-bar and the screen
> edge -- enough to allow for errant clicks and waste the screen edge's
> power to constrain clicks. Zoomed the window to a smaller size. Zoomed
> it back to larger size... didn't retain the original size but went to
> some bizarre size.
>
> Predictability =3D 0%. Frustration =3D 100%.
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I thank you for your time...........Dennis Prance




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