He has a long history with Apple, and was recently sharing some old photos on Twitter.
#Dragthing james thomson mac
So, I’m thinking iCollections is a great bet for the longhaul, because the devs are responsive.Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by James Thomson, the indie iOS and Mac developer behind apps like PCalc and DragThing. But iCollections DOES display custom icons - making it so much easier to recognize various websites that are part of my daily workflow. (I should add, though, that Dragthing does NOT accept custom icons I’ve applied to certain website URLs i’ve dragged into it. Not so in iCollections, it uses the default application icon, disrespecting my cusom icon. With Dragthing, if the icon is changeable in Mac’s Finder, then if I drag that app into Dragthing, the new custom icon i assigned gets used by Dragthing. (4) I use a ton of custom icons, for not just special folders, but also to replace the ugly icons of various applications. (It does not appear to be a private link, but rather appears in the open on their feature documentation pages. He even gave me a link to the beta grid-mode. *BUT AGAIN HERE, they said they are already in beta on their new “Grid Mode” which will allow that very thing, so that’s two things already they’ve improved for next release. iCollections auto-wraps, preventing blank spaces. (3) Dragthing allows for “blank spaces” (blank cells) where there are no icons. iCollections enables you to make the palette label at the top “hidden”, but apparently it holds that space, preventing nudging upwards to snap to top.
(2) Dragthing allowed me to snap the vertical panel to the very top of my screen. THEY SAID THAT IS BEING HANDLED IN NEW VERSION, and will even enable overlapping of icons. (1) But Dragthing allowed for greater density of icons, whereas iCollections added more horizontal and vertical padding between items. I use a 2-display setup, a LEFT DISPLAY and RIGHT DISPLAY, and I have used Dragthing as a 2-icon wide vertical stripe that I place at the left edge of my RIGHT DISPLAY, with a wide mix of apps, folders, system prefs, etc.
That gave me a good feeling, that it’s an app that will continue to be developed going forward.Įxamples of things I commented/asked about: I noticed a few things right out the gate that were not as flexible as Dragthing - but then I sent a side-by-side screenshot to the devs just now, with some Questions, and they responded in under 2 minutes, describing line-item changes that were already in the works on their upcoming version. I clicked yes, and it did a pretty good job of displaying it instantly. I say check it out.Īndy I just discovered iCollections as well, via … I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it prompted me automatically “Do you want to import your Dragthing collection to iCollections?”. It doesn’t offer the profusion of dock themes and button styles that DragThing does, but I found its feature set respectable in its own right, so I’m going with it. My personal preference in these things is to have a multi-tabbed drawer-style interface capable of launching apps, folders, and files, discretely tucked away when not in use, configurable as to things like color and opacity, with more than one row in each tab. I spent a good chunk of yesterday doing it, and while it’s not EXACTLY what I want, it’s close enough, and, most importantly, it will run on Mojave’s successor when that comes out next fall. It’s the closest by far of any launcher out there for power and configurability, at least insofar as it comes to duplicating my old DT setup. Station didn’t, uBar didn’t, DockShelf didn’t, SuperTab didn’t. None of them gave me the configurability options I wanted. It’s an odd comparison, but I think I know now what Roger Ebert went through after Gene Siskel died he had to go through an extended process of auditions with guest critics. Too limited.įinding a replacement for DT has been a laborious little quest. Excellence is a rare thing, and DragThing is excellent at what it does, but James can’t make a living making it 64 bit, so what else am I going to do? Settle for the dock? Not an option.
I love what James Thomson did when he wrote DragThing.
#Dragthing james thomson install
It’s an indispensable part of my Mac experience – one of the first apps I install on every Mac that I own.
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