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Yes, Desktop Manager is the way to go
Authored by: rhowell on Apr 21, '04 04:48:36PM

I never understood why people pay money for CodeTek. Desktop Manager is hands down the best that there is for Mac OS X. I particularly like the transition effects when switching dekstops: rotating cube, swirl in/out, fade in/out. Of course I turned these off after about a day's use :)

Plus you can throw your dekstop pager up into the taskbar to save on screen space. If you insist on having the desktop pager, Desktop Manager will support any skin made for CodeTek.

CodeTek also used to choke with X11 apps. It couldn't bring into focus an X11 app on one desktop if another X11 app was in focus on another desktop. I don't know what the current state of this is. Desktop Manager never had any problems with this.

Desktop Manager does not support the feature mentioned in this hint, however. To put a window on a different desktop, just hide/minimize it, switch desktops, and unhide/maximize it.

Desktop Manager is bundled up at 288 kb, while CodeTek is 1.9 Mb, so I can't help believe that the Desktop Manager authors are doing something much more clever than the CodeTek folks.



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Why I pay
Authored by: stetner on Apr 21, '04 09:31:23PM
I never understood why people pay money for CodeTek. Desktop Manager is hands down the best that there is for Mac OS X. I particularly like the transition effects when switching dekstops: rotating cube, swirl in/out, fade in/out. Of course I turned these off after about a day's use :)
Well, speaking for myself, I pay for it because:
  • It was available before anything else
  • I feel it is of higher quality than DM
  • I feel it is reasonably priced (even though I am a student)


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Re: Why I pay
Authored by: sjk on Apr 22, '04 12:11:44AM

Same reasons for me, 'cept I'm an sysadmin rather than a student. :-)

Maybe CodeTek lost customers during the 2.x->3.x price fiasco, but I'm not one to quibble over a few $$ for any app/util that continues to provide such a significant difference in the usability of my iBook. Plus I've always had positive, informative, intelligent communication with the company and that's the kind of Mac developer I want to support. Others include DEVONtechnologies and Ranchero Software.

Most smaller, Mac-only businesses enjoy working with the platform and probably face more economic concerns over sheer survival in the current market than aspirations of becoming flilthy, greedy rich. ;-)

I think we'd all benefit if more price critics gave serious consideration to the counterproductivity of their "selfish" attitudes.



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