Re: windows 7 new taskbar

On Jan 15, 9:30 pm, Sandman <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Sandman:
Right, but the functionality is built right into the OSX Apple
menu...
Ed:
it's also build into the start menu, but that (on both systems) is a
list across apps- this is per app.

Ok, maybe I misunderstood you - this is not a list of recent documents
that the application itself populates? It's something that the system
keep in this application "dock" menu automatically? As in - all
"unlaunched" applications has a recents menu?

yes, all apps will have a recent items menu (it's there by default).
if the applications makes use of the system 'most recently used' (i
don't know the mechanics of this), those items will be populated.

The Apple Menu recents
items shows any opened file, regardless. Even if you use the "open"
command in the terminal, it's added to the list.

well, not really "any opened file, regardless"- open from the terminal
just calls the default application handler, so it's not really a "even
if..." case. if it was TRUELY "any opened file, regardless" (i.e.
handled by the filesystem or something), it would populate the apple
menu recent items even if i used "more" on a text file from terminal
(it doesn't- i just checked). i suspect os x works exactly like
windows in this case, in that there's some sort of system facility
that needs to be used in order for the recent items to be populated
(even if it's just the default system file chooser).

just another way to do things
that can be a little more convenient, and it ends up giving easy
access to more items (the default on the apple menu is 10 items i
believe- you'd still have those 10 items there, but then you'd have
10 (or whatever number) application specific items in each jump
list).

Actually, you can set "Recent Documents" to up to 50 in the system
preferences.

it was an example, and the point stands, even with 50 items.

Ed:
something like a ssh or ftp program could have a list of saved
targets displayed so it opens directly to the connection. that
way you don't need to launch the app, then select a connection /
session.
Sandman:
And I suppose the entire bookmark menu at your disposal for Safari
would be pretty handy, but it's available through spotlight as
well.
Ed:
sure, for safari.  what about the examples i gave- i suppose they
would be available if different connections were saved in individual
files (i think cyberduck does that), but what if they were saved in
one file?  or if you didn't save a configuration for that
connection, it could still be available as a recently used
connection...

Yeah, as I said, this could be handy.

.

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