Maximize Windows
One thing that was hard to get used to is the lack of function to be able to view a window full screen, sometimes I want to just see one window not a bunch of overlapped windows, I can drag it as big as I can, but I don’t quite understand what the green button is supposed to do, it makes a windows bigger (sometimes).. I know I know mac zealots.. “why would you want to?” well I do… and I plop my powerbook in a friends lap and he first thing tried to maximize the window he was working in, so I’m not the only one that thinks this way, the odds are there is a third party program or some script thing that would give me this functionality… come on apple make the green button work like Windows…
I like the clean look of having a window maximized and with some of the features they added in OS X it still would make switching between programs and windows easy, Expose is a pretty cool feature and being able to use “control tab” to swap between applications is slick (I think stolen from Windows 3.1) so why not have the ability to have your windows full screen?
- Maximize Window – Expose -
It’s not a maximize
It’s not a maximize button, it’s a zoom button. Watch the third movie in this post for an explanation http://thoth.robroh…-to-Mac-From-Windows
And why should Apple “make the green button work like Windows” - it’s not windows. I personally hate the way widows “zoom” button works. On my 20″ monitor filling the whole screen is a waste of real estate and makes most applications less usable
Putting aside what you think
Putting aside what you think is “the way it should work” which is all about your opinion, and what you’re used to …not right or wrong… if the application is coded correctly, holding the option key while pressing the green (+) button should expand the window to fill the screen.
Without the option key, the (+) button will expand to show the window’s contents. Some would argue this is more useful and more logical that the “windows way.”
That said, developers don’t always code their apps according to Apple’s spec.
There is a little hack called megazoomer that will giv eyou a keyboard shortcut to mazimize windows… more like windows: http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/21275
There’s also a shareware app called MenuStrip that has a lot of features, but specifically includes one called “Auto Hide” that will isolate applications, hiding others and the desktop if you wish to focus more on a single app at a time: http://www.macupdat…com/info.php/id/5725
There are likely others that do similar things, but hope these help!
-mpm
Personally I like CMD - ~
Personally I like CMD - ~ the best (swap between windows within the current application).
I don’t recommend ’stolen from xxx’ lines of thought. Unless you have extensive knowledge of the history of Unix/Linux/NextStep/etc… you are likely to get flamed that O/S feature X was actually already used by something else years earlier.
Everything is piggybacked off of some other idea. For me - it is stolen if it is just strictly copied and nothing more. If you incorporate it and improve upon the idea than you have contributed to O/S evolution. Which is a boon to users everywhere. Expose and CMD-~ are prime examples. I miss them so badly when I go to work and have to use XP!
Do any of you use KDE +
Do any of you use KDE + Linux? In this environment when you click the maximize button with the right mouse button, the windows expands filling the whole screen wide. If you click with the middle button (the wheel usually) the window fills the whole height of the screen.
Do anybody knows if there is a way to do this in MS Windows? some add-on ...
Alex
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