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Edit the default window size of new Explorer windows
Authored by: osxpounder on Aug 18, '03 12:16:23PM

I also would like to know if there's a way to set the default size for at least one of the "Zoom" states that is toggled when the green "+" button is clicked. It seems to me that it *ought* to be impossible, by design, to set one of the two states as a fixed position and size, since the point of the Zoom function is to adapt the window to your screen's size. If your monitor resolution were changed, or if you were using a 2nd monitor, then fixing both Zoom states would mean that the window could not adapt to the monitor's resolution. Still, I can imagine good reasons why one, not both, of the Zoom states could be specified at a fixed point with fixed dimensions.

Since you mention this, I wonder too if it would be possible to set, system-wide for every app, a hotkey [shortcut key] for the Zoom function. I've yet to encounter a program that uses a hotkey for window Zooming, but that seems to me one of the best places for one. Think about it: if your window isn't appropriately sized so that you can mouse-drag the bottom right corner, you have to move the window around first, then find the corner, then drag it. Sometimes, after changing the monitor resolution, my Aqua windows show up with their title bars beneath the Apple menu bar, and I must use the Window menu to Zoom the window before I can move it since I can't click on the obscured title bar.

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Edit the default window size of new Explorer windows
Authored by: atFault on Aug 18, '03 09:50:48PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it has always been my understanding that the Mac OS optimizes and not maximizes windows when the green button (+) is pushed. The correct labeling for window buttons should be: close, minimize and optimize. It appears the (+) is misleading. I seem to remember reading documentation regarding this 'feature' in Mac OSs prior to X, but I'm not sure how far back it went. You should rarely see a window that is optimized to where it is the same as the screen size; in most cases you should just see the appropriate number of columns, all content of a page or all the folder icons contained within a folder, and no more, leaving your desktop as open as possible. There are details regarding it's function that elude me, and it is far from perfect, but if it is used to instantly obtain the optimized window size it can be productive.

Mark

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