Author Andrew Pontious Posted on FebruCategories Programming & Tech Tags From Old Helpful Tiger Blog, Helpful Applications 2 Comments on On the Move, Part I An Exercise for the ReaderĪ while back, I bought Test Driven Development: by Example by by noted banjoist Kent Beck. On the other hand, why do I need to go through an import? Why doesn’t just copying the files work, like it used to work for almost every application?ĭoes it work anymore for any application? Stay tuned. On the one hand, the UI is clear and intuitive. How did I know to do this? Because DragThing’s import window specifically says, “Select a folder, XML dock file, or “DragThing Preferences” file to import.” Instead, in order to make the preferences file work in the second DragThing, I had to explicitly import the preferences file. This failed for DragThing as well, but not because there were missing Application Support files. I’d rather not have to look in two places for files with user configuration info, but the guidelines don’t seem to provide crystal-clear guidance on the issue.įor DragThing, as for MarsEdit, the first thing I tried was just copying over the preferences file. Firefox seems to put your entire profile there, for instance. However, other applications also dump files with user info in the Application Support directory. I don’t think that means things the user can configure, which I think should go under Preferences. Microsoft Word’s various letter document templates. Now, Apple’s guidelines say that the Application Support directory is for files like “document templates and sample files.” I am interpreting that to mean unchanging template files that ship with the software, such as e.g. I had to also copy over everything from my user-level Library/Application Support directory in order to get those settings. MarsEdit can do this.īut after I copied the preferences file ( ) from my user-level Library/Preferences directory on old machine to my new machine, MarsEdit still used its default preview template. I could use my weblogging software’s posting mechanism instead of MarsEdit, but that software’s preview doesn’t actually make the previewed post look like it will look in my weblog. I love MarsEdit primarily for its preview template. Replicating the settings for those applications is more application-specific than I was expecting. If you’re like me, and you want more from your dock, give Station a whirl.I’m copying a bunch of applications over to a new machine. The only thing I’ve found missing is support for the Trash (DT had a trash can shortcut, where Station does not), but another app called theBin is filling that void nicely for me.Īnd best of all, when I emailed Station’s developer about whether there was trash support, I had an e-mail back within 24 hours with exactly the information I needed.
Station is lightning-fast and has some lovely customization options (I’ve made custom icons for each of my categories, and it looks really sharp). While I miss the tabbed interface of DT, I’ve found sorting my shortcuts into folders within Station is just as easy and intuitive, and took almost no time in getting used to.
Station has already proven itself to be a worthy replacement for DT.
#MAC DRAGTHING CRASH FREE#
After searching around for a while, I stumbled across Station and gave it a try-there’s a free trial, so why not? And boy, am I glad I did! The Apple Dock is…well, it’s fine, but DragThing really made things better. I’m still on High Sierra for a number of reasons, but one of the big ones is that my beloved DragThing isn’t making the transition to 64-bit.
I’m writing this from my iMac running High Sierra.
This design also does away with the need for magnification or shrinking the height of the launch panel so your icons remain one height thus making them more readable. Station also implements scrollbars when a launch panel exceeds the width or height of the screen. With ten levels of folders available, enough space is provided to spread out even the most diverse set of applications and documents. This is useful when switching between tasks like business and spreadsheets to graphics work. Another useful feature of Station is the ability to launch, all at once, the items in a launch folder. For example, one folder can contain work related items and another folder gaming items. Productivity is increased because related items can be grouped together into a single folder. Scalability is greatly increased through logical groupings thus increasing the sheer number of items that can be added to Station without having to shrink the launcher size. With nested folders, you can arrange items in Station in a way that fits your workflow with an uncluttered look and feel. Station is a multilevel launcher that promotes a more natural organization of applications and documents into folders.
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