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Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning

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In article <td-dnT1wlJo6c-fPnZ2dnUVZ_vydnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:

> On 2013.11.06, 19:14 , Your Name wrote:
> > In article <apKdnSUVaOQnX-fPnZ2dnUVZ_hSdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
> > <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> 1. The new menu bar opening on the screen where the focus is seemed like
> >> an answered wish.  Now I consider it a curse as info I like to see on my
> >> primary screen is made dull/opaque when the focus is on the other
> >> screen.  Hit CMD-Spacebar and it opens where the focus is.
> >>
> >> 2. Opening a finder window used to always be on the primary screen (or
> >> at least where the last finder window was used - something like that).
> >> Now it opens on the screen with focus.  Argh.  (If I'm looking at an
> >> e-mail (2nd screen) and then want to open a finder to look for
> >> something, I want that finder window to be opened on my main screen
> >> where I manipulate files.
> >>
> >> 2a.  Since the resolution of the 2nd screen is much smaller than that of
> >> the main (esp. vertical), the finder window that gets opened is too
> >> small for my taste.
> >>
> >>
> >> <sigh>
> >
> >
> > Here's one for you, although not a Mavericks addition (it's been there
> > since OS X was first released.) ...
> >
> > You are using one application, then you decide also need use another so
> > open it and while it's opening you go back to the first application to
> > continue working in it ... but highly irritatingly the windows of the
> > new application keep popping up over the current application as it
> > opens "in the backgorund" blocking the view of the working application!
> 
> I've noted that one before.  Windows (and IIRC Linux) do the same.
> 
> > The front most application should not be covered by background
> > application windows opening up.  X-(
> 
> They are not "background" from a processing POV, but they are from a GUI 
> POV.

It should be "simple" enough to at least "protect" the currently active
window from being over-layed with any new windows from other
applications.

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Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-11-06 17:29 -0500
  Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-11-07 13:14 +1300
    Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-06 19:44 -0500
      Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-11-07 01:36 +0000
        Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-06 22:40 -0500
      Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-11-07 15:54 +1300
        Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-06 22:40 -0500
      Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-06 22:40 -0500
        Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-06 22:55 -0500
          Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-11-07 18:24 +1300
    Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-11-06 20:36 -0500
      Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-11-07 15:56 +1300
        Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-06 22:40 -0500
        Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-11-07 16:57 -0500
    Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-06 22:40 -0500
  Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2013-11-11 11:04 +0100
    Re: Mavericks irritants - menu bar; programs oepning dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-11-11 23:23 +1300

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