In article <1icemta.kodl9q10jkmiwN%mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsult.com>,
mikePOST.DeleteThis@TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger.DeleteThis@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > I've encountered exactly one. A very strange conflict with DragThing (I
> > don't remember the exact details, but I remember it was very
> > aggravating) that I never could get either developer to help with, in
> > the end, due to finger pointing and general distrust of haxies. At the
> > time, DragThing was far more important than my haxies to me. So I did
> > the only thing I could do: I started curtailing my use of Unsanity
> > stuff, and the problem vanished.
> >
> > And for a bit of irony: I don't use DragThing anymore (I found
> > QuickSilver religion), but I still don't use or feel the need for
> > Unsanity's stuff. : D
>
> Another bit of irony is that I've been using DragThing all along, back
> to pre-OS X days, and have never encountered such a conflict.
Well how would you know without knowing what the conflict was??
In my case, launching applications from DragThing sometimes resulted in
the application in question being launched in the background (DragThing
stayed in the foreground). So imagine this scenario:
1. Copy some text to the clipboard from a web page.
2. Click the TextEdit icon in the DragThing dock.
3. Paste.
Wait, what the hell?! Nothing was pasted into TextEdit, because it's in
the background. And to make matters worse, since DragThhing is in the
foreground, my paste went into DragThing and I now have a text clipping
icon in a random location on my DragThing dock (ok not random, the first
available empty button space on the dock). That one was infuriating.
Now that I think back, there was another issue as well. I no longer use
DropStuff, but back when i did, I would use the "one-time settings"
feature of DropStuff a lot to password protect certain things I stuffed.
DropStuff has a feature where holding down the Option key on the
keyboard while launching DropStuff would cause the "One-time settings"
window to appear, where you could temporarily (just for this operation)
change settings to do password protection and so on. Unfortunately, I
recall that with Unsanity stuff installed, clicking the DropStuff icon
on the DragThing dock somehow prevented DropStuff from seeing the Option
key was being held down. If I instead launched DropStuff by
double-clicking its icon in the Finder, it saw the Option key being held
down. That one drove me nuts as well.
Both of these issues vanished once Unsanity stuff was no longer
installed.
The irony is I don't use DragThing, DropStuff, or Unsanity software
anymore. Karma? ; )
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