Still, I think they’ll be getting my money shortly. A utility like this is meant to be used heavily, and an unregistered copy of LB starts putting up a nag screen well before you can give it a proper workout. Similar to the way you use your desk surface, commit to using your computer desktop only to hold temporary items, says Friel. I think Objective Development should loosen the restrictions on the “try before you buy” download of LaunchBar. DragThing is the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop. create palettes of different uses, for apps, servers, bookmarks or whatever. 10 Best alternatives to Dragthing you must know. DragThing was another app I used to death. javascript/html widgets that just about anyone could develop. Maybe there’s some setting I can adjust to change that behavior. concept lives on in OSX, but that's from apps, Konfabulator/Dashboard was.
This player is faster and is a great alternative when just want to play (and not. Instead of immediately fading to the background after running the script-as QuickSilver does-LaunchBar remains in the foreground, and I have to dismiss it by pressing the Escape key. then download and install DragThing 2.9 (an incredibly powerful. While writing this post, for example, I’ve called on LaunchBar several time to run my furl.scpt script that grabs the URL of the current Safari page and puts it on the Clipboard. One thing I’ve noticed about LaunchBar that bothers me is that it doesn’t necessarily go away after running an AppleScript. This is where dock expose comes in handy. Application expose only shows the windows in the current active application so if you want to see the windows of a different app you need to switch to it and press a key. Since these triggers are simply AppleScript launchers, I can use FastScripts or just FastScripts Lite instead of QS. Expose can be used to view only the windows from a single app, multiple apps or all windows. Although I’ve defined a half-dozen or so triggers in QS, the only ones I use regularly are those that play/pause iTunes and Pandora and change the star ratings of the current iTunes track. LaunchBar’s lack of triggers (hotkeys for actions) is a worry, but it may not be a showstopper. So far, it’s been more stable, too, but that may not be a fair assessment although I’ve been having more problems with QS since upgrading to Leopard, QS has often gone weeks without crashing or requiring a restart. It also seems to use less memory than QS. Where QS often takes its own sweet time responding to my keystrokes, LB has always popped up right away. But after this famous downer of an interview with Nicholas Jitkoff (Alcor), I decided I needed to get familiar with LaunchBar.
I’m sure I’d heard of LaunchBar, but-unlike the Dock alternative, DragThing, and the Finder alternative, PathFinder-I’d never downloaded and tried it out. I’ve been using QuickSilver since Merlin Mann started posting about it, and I’d never really considered any alternative. I wish I knew of a more elegant solution.Next post Previous post LaunchBar over Quicksilver? When the user-facing app is launched, it checks if it's running as root or not, and launches the appropriate copy of the real app, which has the CFBundleName and file-name you want. The value under the CFBundleName key in ist is what shows up in the menubar.Īs far as I know, changing either these at runtime isn't going to work… but what you can do is have two versions of your app, a root and non-root version, inside your user-facing. They aren’t always the same, especially in Microsoft and Adobe products.įrom what I can tell, the name in the dock is the name of the application bundle (sans ".app") on the filesystem. …there are at least five application names floating around, at least in concept: (1) the file name the Finder sees, which in the case of an application package is the package (bundle) name (2) the name of the executable inside the package, (3) the long name used in many places for display purposes only (4) the short name used as the application menu title and in a few other places where a long name won’t fit for display purposes and (5) the process name of a running application.
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