Welcome to the blog of Can Sar, a Stanford CS major. This blog is made up of my thoughts on Computer Science and the computer industry, as well as ever exciting tales from my life.
My Panther review was posted on OSNews.com this morning. I hope to write more for them in the future.
I have been using Exposê more and more in the last few days, and I am starting to realize how great a feature it is. What I particularily like to do is push F9 and then look at all my windows at the same time, so I can read several IM conversations at the same time. Unfortunately, when I want to send an answer to somebody I have to select that window, which moves everthing back to its original position.
I would love to have a feature that lets you select a window while still staying in Exposê, so you could write something while still seeing other windows. This would of course not be the standard way of doing things, and might turn out not to be as useful as I think, but it would be an interesting experiment.
My real point is that it is very important for companies to give outside developers a way of testing such extensions, so that they can possibly be adopted later. Exposê itself stems from an idea that an Apple programmer had, which turned out to be great. If Exposê were open source, I could make the neccessary changes and see how it would work. I am not arguing that Apple should open source their GUI software, but that it would be nice to have more interfaces to interact with it, and maybe write a little app that could do this.
Actually, I will do some research into whether this is possible, but the message is, more open interfaces are better, somebody might come up with a great idea, that could improve the product.