Cool app, I just installed it. Some feedback: Would be nice if double click shade desktop would show real desktop. Clicking the icon isn't always handy.
I've been using a Mac for over a year, and I've never had more than a few things on the desktop, whereas my Windows 7 boxes sometimes ran into the problem that Shade is addressing.
Seems like OSX is much friendlier to organization and discovery. With Spotlight and tools like Alfred, all my apps and files are pretty much always a few keystrokes away, so storing stuff on the desktop becomes suboptimal.
I think you might have a point there. It appears to me now that my OSX desktop is only messy because I share it with my Windows VM, where the desktop is pretty much the goto place when you want fast access to your latest files.
Just earlier this week I was looking for an app that did exactly this. Installed it - works great.
I'd also be keen to see a 'double-click to reveal' feature.
Great work!
I hide/show my desktop icons with a couple of aliases in my .zshrc:
alias dihide="defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool NO && killall Finder"
alias dishow="defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool YES && killall Finder"
This has a couple side effects: clicking on the desktop background doesn't steal focus from the current app, and you can no longer drop files onto the desktop. It doesn't have a pretty UI, but since I've got a terminal open almost all the time, it's just as convenient to me as a menu bar item.
I just leave the desktop function turned off and use Finder and terminals. I prefer a plain black background.
Off-topic, but I will say it again anyway: I really wish I could disable all window decoration and personalize the way windows are managed like you can in many X11 window managers.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 18.9 ms ] threadSeems like OSX is much friendlier to organization and discovery. With Spotlight and tools like Alfred, all my apps and files are pretty much always a few keystrokes away, so storing stuff on the desktop becomes suboptimal.
Off-topic, but I will say it again anyway: I really wish I could disable all window decoration and personalize the way windows are managed like you can in many X11 window managers.
( I miss using compiz standalone on Arch. )