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Dendriet is a network of musicians in The Hague (.nl) that perform with networked electronic and acoustic instruments. The word dendriet, or dendrite, is also the name for the receptors of a nervecell. Dendrites are typically branching branches. You'll find these fractal shapes in ice, in metal chrystals in limestone, and likewise, in our performance setups. Please do check out our homepage by clicking the stone. You too are invited to join the discussions.
24.2.04
Dendriet, and the search for a better program launcher.
The dock is not a very good program launcher. It's to small, magnification sucks but is needed for better feedback to tell you where your mouse is, icons keep changing screen-position according to the amount of open apps, it's not a good idea to use the dock as a launcher and a place to minimize documents into. That said, it's easy to make a wishlist.
- a classic apple-menu with subfolders as a launcher.
- a minimize-in-place feature
- the dock can then be cleared totally, so it will be a good program switcher.
I tried "Himmelbar" today. It says it restores the olschool apple menu. People on the web said they liked it. I don't. I have the feeling that this program was spammed into versiontracker by it's developer. In order of increasing annoyance:
- It's at the wrong side of the screen, which is stupid because the subfolders open the wrong way. I prefer reading english from left to right.
- Its icon looks german to me as it seems somebody shot a hole in my menubar. The icon casts a shadow on application windows.
- By default the program adds ALL apps that live on your computer into 3 folders in the menu (applications, utilities, develloper). Deutsche Gruntlichkeit in action.
- Its rootfolder can't be configured!
- It doesn't show aliases. Meditate on this one if you do not immediately see how utterly stupid this is.
There are some alternatives, but they need panther or have comments like:
"Great software! It does what I want, but it keeps crashing the finder."
- a classic apple-menu with subfolders as a launcher.
- a minimize-in-place feature
- the dock can then be cleared totally, so it will be a good program switcher.
I tried "Himmelbar" today. It says it restores the olschool apple menu. People on the web said they liked it. I don't. I have the feeling that this program was spammed into versiontracker by it's developer. In order of increasing annoyance:
- It's at the wrong side of the screen, which is stupid because the subfolders open the wrong way. I prefer reading english from left to right.
- Its icon looks german to me as it seems somebody shot a hole in my menubar. The icon casts a shadow on application windows.
- By default the program adds ALL apps that live on your computer into 3 folders in the menu (applications, utilities, develloper). Deutsche Gruntlichkeit in action.
- Its rootfolder can't be configured!
- It doesn't show aliases. Meditate on this one if you do not immediately see how utterly stupid this is.
There are some alternatives, but they need panther or have comments like:
"Great software! It does what I want, but it keeps crashing the finder."
