From: Marnen Laibow-Koser Date: 2009-12-08T12:55:09+09:00 Subject: Re: IRB GUI on OSX? David Masover wrote: > On Monday 07 December 2009 03:33:50 pm Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: >> David Masover wrote: >> > If it's not already the default, bind command+left/right to >> > next/previous >> > window in Terminal. >> >> No need. That's what Cmd-Grave and Cmd-Sh-Grave already do. > > Ah, fair enough -- though I still prefer combinations of arrow keys or > something similar to a mutator like shift, at least for navigating in a > particular direction through tabs. Oh, those are Mac OS standard keystrokes for switching *windows*, not *tabs*. I think there's a keystroke to switch tabs, but I don't know what it is b > >> There's a reason I don't use desktop Linux... > FWIW, there's far more than this that I'd miss on the Mac -- or on > Windows, > for that matter. Really? I don't think I miss one single KDE feature on Mac OS -- except perhaps kdesu, and Pseudo comes pretty close to that. KDE's session restoration is also nice. And for me, that's it. I'd almost rather use the Windows GUI than KDE or GNOME (the underlying OS is a different story, of course). > Of the top of my head: > > - Sloppy focus As in focus follows mouse? God, NO! I don't have that turned on in KDE either. I think there *should* be a positive action to change focus -- I've bumped the mouse too many times. > - WAY more keyboard shortcuts (check out "pack left" or "grow pack" on > KDE -- > really can't live without them now) I'll look those up. But what good are keyboard shortcuts if there's no easy way to remind oneself of them? > - Middle-click to paste currently-selected text. In ANY application. No easier and no harder than Cmd-V. > - Workspaces that work well. So do Leopard's Spaces, AFAIK. I don't use the feature on either OS. > - Binary package managers for everything. On OS X, I had maybe 10-15 > apps > that didn't autoupdate, so I had to manually check. Virtually everyone is using some sort of autoupdate now, and for those that don't, there's AppFresh. > - I can boycott Apple for what they've done with the iPhone. > I love my iPhone (unjailbroken, though slightly tweaked). I don't think apple has done everything right with it, but I see no reason for a boycott. > I could go on, though it'd get progressively sillier (wobbly windows). > Probably the number one reason is that I will, at some point, be able to > add > that feature I want to my window manager, or write one that supports it. > (Haven't gotten around to it yet.) On the other hand, Apple are the only > ones > who can implement true sloppy focus on OS X, Untrue. Plenty of people have released kernel hacks for Mac OS; I understand some apps even have a sloppy focus option (though why anyone would want such an abomination is beyond me). > and they aren't doing it. > > I'm sure I could come up with a list about that long for why I envy OS > X. :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.