Re: placing windows behind finder icons
Re: placing windows behind finder icons
- Subject: Re: placing windows behind finder icons
- From: Yann Bizeul <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:13:36 +0100
I understand your point of view. I don't want to pay DTC, so i'm writing my own
for me and myself at first.
I wrote that I don't want to release a DTC like with no more features, I'll
release it for something different, and more powerfull. Right now, GeekTool is
just a prefpane launching an invisible app, that's a different approach, no
need to change Info.plist manually or launch scripts to change icon visibility.
I think GeekTool is justified and perhaps some people will prefer using DTC.
There are a lot of products around making the same thing, like
Fire/ICQ/Proteus... It's everybody's choice, and that make things go forward.
Quoting Simon Stapleton <email@hidden>:
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From: Yann Bizeul <email@hidden>
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> That works perfectly !!!
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> Thanks to you, I'm writing an app to display log files on the
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> background (it's called GeekTool ;-))
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> I write it because I do not want to pay DesktopConsole, but I will not
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> release it unitil I have more features (i.e. shell commands logging).
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> It will be opensource
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ISTR a recent thread bemoaning the lack of jobs and the fact that
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shareware authors aren't going to get rich any more.
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Now, maybe DesktopConsole is a very simple app, and maybe the pricing
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is way out there, but it's not that expensive. And it's pretty slick.
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Damn, it's even scriptable. It's quite nice, really, and the
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functionality is excessively useful for developers.
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As it happens, I don't use it - I hacked my own app together that does
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similar things, only monitors console.log, and does the things I wanted
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that DesktopConsole doesn't do. It took all of a couple of hours to
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write, although all configuration is through `defaults write ...` as
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opposed to a slick user interface. But I wrote it because DTC doesn't
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do what I want, wheras my app does. I didn't write it because I 'do
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not want to pay'. Still, if anyone feels the need to not pay for DTC,
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but fancies paying me, I can wrap a slick little prefs panel around my
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code and release it as non-cripppled shareware ;-)
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My point being that we can't have it both ways. Either pay for
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shareware, or stop moaning about the fact nobody pays for shareware...
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</rant>
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Simon
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