On 07-Oct-08, at 11:37 PM, Howard Melman wrote:
On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Chris Cairns wrote:
And selecting things is much faster than arrowing down since you
can type and use the matching algorithm.
thats a very good point which i completely missed...i can have a shelf
with lots of items
Not sure I agree with that. In the finder with an icon selected, it
doesn't open the file but selects the name so you can do a rename
(there isn't even a menu choice for that).
sorry, i would not agree with you either. Dont look far at Finder. (if
you google it you will find the whole world complaining about this
behaviour of Finder..and there is an app ReturnOpen to solve this
problem)
Look at Shelf's "neighbours" :Clipboard History and Clipboard
Storage---return does work there even though there are numbers in left
which can be used.
and whats the point in a shelf trigger, i would rather click on an
icon on my desktop after clicking F11 if i have to use the mouse.
Well the shelf is easy to bring up when the screen is full of
windows, though the Show Desktop function of Expose makes the
desktop accessible too.
i like the fact that you got it right in the manual
"People use it for": email addresses,
images, code fragments and templates, favorite hex colors, lo-
rem ipsum text, passwords (though this isn’t secure), etc..
not for folders, files etc though folders, files can be placed there.
Having said this, it is pretty annoying that you have to first bring
up the shelf, select text, and then do a Cmd-C and Cmd-V or drag with
a mouse. If i simply select the text and drag it to the edge(edge
where my shelf is located) then the shelf does not come up.
Again, I agree that return should do a double-click on the shelf,
ok,. (i did not read this before writing what i wrote above)
