As you may know, WindowShade X 3.0 Public Preview expires on September 1. For this reason, we'll have a final release for you before that date.
Currently we are working on the most requested feature for Minimize-in-Place: automatic alignment of windows along some screen edge. So far so good, and first prototype builds are working pretty nicely.
I've run into a small dilemma, though. As many of you are, I use multiple monitors with my Mac, and the question is where to put the MIPped windows if they are auto-aligned -- on a monitor of your choice or form two (or more) alignment groups for each monitor and then collapse the window to the appropriate one depending on which screen it was. Which is the better approach?
As a side note, as you may have noticed, we have added AdWords to our sites. We'll see how well this performs -- it may help us pay the bills on the hosting (pair Networks are freakin' great, but a little bit expensive - but it's all worth it). Hope you don't mind - and feel free to click on stuff that interests you - you are giving us a penny or two every time you do so. ;)
Either way, I'll keep you posted on WSX development process, as usual.
Posted by slava at 06:06 AM
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I'd say line 'em up in two groups on their own monitors.
Posted by: Rob W on August 19, 2003 10:20 AMtwo groups would be seriously rad. it would make the second monitor so much more useful.
Posted by: chad on August 19, 2003 4:33 PMI'd say that for most purpose the two groups idea would be best, but depending on how someone has the monitors organized in could also be handy to have all windows minimize to a certain spot on one window, kind of like a dock just for windows. So maybe both features would be useful to have with just a option for which one to use.
Posted by: on August 19, 2003 7:38 PMTwo groups sounds good to me... you know, you COULD release a private beta seed to those who care, and we could do some informal usability testing for you (just put a switch or tell us what to write in the plist for either option). Then it'd be informal poll time. ;)
Posted by: Leo of BORG on August 20, 2003 12:06 PMSlava how many GB of transfer are you using a month? Remember I'm in the hosting business, I could most likely host you on a dedicated server for free, in the best datacenter on earth ;-)
Posted by: Court on August 20, 2003 1:23 PMHey, I run dual monitors and I think it's fine the way it is
it's compatable with all setups, and I can just drag the window to another monitor if I want it to minimize there
good work!
*****
can't wait until you can maximize an MIP'd window and it brings the application to the front (PLEASE fix this)
The other comment - make it work well with Exposé. Ideally, when a user hits the Exposé key the MIP windows would unminimize while in Exposé and minimize back after.
Posted by: Alex Kac on August 20, 2003 6:22 PMThe only problem with that Ad at the top is on my screen, my Safari is kept a certain width and it overlaps the side bar and looks horrible. You should move it out of the main content area and give it a wider area to roam in. And NO, I will not widen my browser just for it. ;) Sorry, I just had to say it as I've had people try and change me. Scott Kurtz hasn't succeeded yet.
Thing is, it's only overlapping because it seems the sidebar is wider than it should be. Try hard coding the cell width in there.
Posted by: Jason Anderson on August 20, 2003 8:03 PM