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Make the green button set a window to full screen size
Can I say freekin' finally!? :-)
Make the green button set a window to full screen size
It's funny how different people react. When I first encountered the green button in Safari so many years ago, my reaction was "oh wow, an intelligent zoom button!". I then checked and was disappointed that Safari was about the only application that had one.
Green button poll
For me zooming to show all content is more often useful. (Before the Finder did that starting in System 7, I used to obsessively resize Finder windows by hand to fit the exact icon layout. Every pixel counted in 512x342.) But zooming to full screen is also needed sometimes. I think I recall Option-click on the zoom button doing that in some app in Classic MacOS. Now for Preview and music apps particularly I have macros to manually zoom to full screen with mouse drags.
I would like to see the behavior of the green button standardized to zoom full screen with Option-click. I think it's very hard for developers to predict when a user might find it useful. Bizarrely, in Safari 4 beta, I find that Option-click on the green button currently zooms the window behind the one you click!
Make the green button set a window to full screen size
You've been conditioned to work full screen because of the fact that Windows ties the menu to the application or document window. Which means you have to spread your window as wide as possible to get all your menu selections, usually with the result that you have gobs of wasted space on either side, or you're less efficient because your eye has to track large horizontal distances (there's a reason printed material is set in two or more columns above a certain page size).
Make the green button set a window to full screen size
While occasionally there are apps which don't the 'optimal' thing when pressing the zoom button (hardwired by me to ctrl-Z-cmd), I much prefer the Mac behaviour. A lot of apps benefit from full-screen (eg, library-based ones like Aperture), but crtl-Z-cmd, ahem zoom, already maximises those. |
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