Comments on: Warp 1.0.1

By: Daniel S.

Daniel S. — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:44:29 +0000

One feature I would love to see is when you hover over the side, you can slide up and down once or twice in order to switch. This would be great to avoid accidental switches. The preview method works well, but this is one other way.

Thanks for the great app!

By: Chris P.

Chris P. — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:01:54 +0000

Yes, thanks so much for putting out Warp, to add some much-needed functionality to Spaces.

I want to encourage the addition of a small feature found in VirtueDesktops that I eventually found to be my perfect trigger for switching spaces. I currently rely on what I’ve found to be the perfect response time to a bump on the screen edge, but it still feels just a little bit awkward. In VD, there was the option to activate the switch with a coordinated mouse click at the edge of the screen.

I found that this option avoided any accidental switches, and still gave me the immediate response I craved, without having to reach for the keyboard.

Anyway, keep up the great work on the product, and please consider my suggestion.

cheers,
/chris p.

By: Soarer

Soarer — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:07:16 +0000

Your suggestion is a fine one Naseer. If that is possible to accomplish I’d like to see that as well!

By: Naseer

Naseer — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:58:09 +0000

Thanks for the update. The small movement to make it avoid multiple warps is great and was sorely needed. And hot corners are more error-free which makes Warp less “grabby.” But the solution to complete give up warping from the edges that have menubar and Dock is not a final solution, IMHO. I still want to go up and down by warping.

Can I suggest somehow observing the velocity of the mouse, and only warping when the value is above some user-controlled threshold. Most times I want to warp, I usually hit that edge aggressively. That way if I’m puttering around the menu trying to choose something or up in the top right in the pref panes status area, I won’t get warped.

And based on the Star Trek worldview, that’s how you have to “Go to Warp” by building up speed (remember the movie when Zephram Cochraine developed the first FTL ship…!!!). So there’s my support on this suggestion… Hope it’s not too hard to accomplish.

Again, thanks for the great utility…

By: CJ Yetman

CJ Yetman — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:40:07 +0000

I have noticed a somewhat troublesome affect while having Warp installed.

I have the screen saver lock set, so you need a password to get back in. When the screen saver is on and locked, and you go to log back in, Warp still works, another words, you can drag the mouse to the side and the login box disappears to another screen and then you can do it again to get back to the login box. OK, a little strange and annoying, but no biggie.

Then I discovered that if you do this–move to another screen and then back again while on the screen saver and the login box–when you come back to the screen with the login box, the password field is no longer active and if you type something, it will register in whatever window is open on that user account!!! So for instance, open a TextEdit document, start the screensaver, let it lock, wiggle the mouse to login, drag the mouse to the side of the screen, then do it again to get back to the login box, type something (don’t reselect the password field yet), then click on the login box and type in your password in the login box. When your account comes back up, you will see your TextEdit document with whatever you typed while the screen was supposedly locked!

This is probably not the fault of Warp, it just enables you to take advantage of it for some reason. It seems like a big gaping security hole in OS X. I tried it on 10.5.1 and 10.5.2. Very strange.

Maybe you could look into it and/or notify Apple.

Thanks!