Comments on: Warp 1.2 Beta 1 http://ksuther.com/blog/2008/12/21/warp-12-beta-1/ Mac apps and miscellaneous | Kent Sutherland Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:31:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sebastianhttp://ksuther.com/blog/2008/12/21/warp-12-beta-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3792 Sebastian Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:08:49 +0000 http://ksuther.com/blog/?p=72#comment-3792 Hi, I greatly appreciate your little program! It's easy, works and is just very innovative! Apple should've built this in from the beginning. However, I am working on a Late 2007 Macbook with 10.5.8 and it seems as though your application does have some kind of a memory leak. It uses more than 350mb of memory and when I kill the deamon it keeps going back up as soon as I start switching spaces. I just now found out about this, but my Macbook has been acting really slow lately and it might be linked to that. I will have to deactive warp for now, having only 1gb of memory, unfortunately. I'd be glad if you could release another version in the future though where this issue is fixed. Thank you for this little program, it's been fun using it! Yours sincerely, Seba Hi,

I greatly appreciate your little program! It’s easy, works and is just very innovative! Apple should’ve built this in from the beginning. However, I am working on a Late 2007 Macbook with 10.5.8 and it seems as though your application does have some kind of a memory leak. It uses more than 350mb of memory and when I kill the deamon it keeps going back up as soon as I start switching spaces. I just now found out about this, but my Macbook has been acting really slow lately and it might be linked to that. I will have to deactive warp for now, having only 1gb of memory, unfortunately.
I’d be glad if you could release another version in the future though where this issue is fixed.
Thank you for this little program, it’s been fun using it!
Yours sincerely,
Seba

]]> By: Canada Guyhttp://ksuther.com/blog/2008/12/21/warp-12-beta-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3759 Canada Guy Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:38:09 +0000 http://ksuther.com/blog/?p=72#comment-3759 I have been looking for a desktop pager for spaces since the feature was first introduced, this is awesome! I'm actually now using spaces for the first time, now that I have this great program. Is there actually any way to turn off the ability to change spaces by moving the mouse to the side of the screen? I really *only* want the pager. Also, if there is any posssible way you could add a preference to turn off the spaces animation, that would be great. Thanks! I have been looking for a desktop pager for spaces since the feature was first introduced, this is awesome! I’m actually now using spaces for the first time, now that I have this great program. Is there actually any way to turn off the ability to change spaces by moving the mouse to the side of the screen? I really *only* want the pager. Also, if there is any posssible way you could add a preference to turn off the spaces animation, that would be great.

Thanks!

]]> By: Sam Homerhttp://ksuther.com/blog/2008/12/21/warp-12-beta-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3371 Sam Homer Mon, 04 May 2009 14:50:00 +0000 http://ksuther.com/blog/?p=72#comment-3371 Kent, Thanks a lot for making this great preference pane! Especially the addition of the pager is extremely appreciated. I have my dock displayed without the glass effect at the bottom and glued to the left border of the screen, leaving some space at the bottom right. If it were possible to put the Warp pager next to the Dock and in the same look as the dock, that would be the perfect setup. The advantage of this is that application windows respect the dock when they are resizing, hence the Warp pager would not get into the way of any windows. As mentioned by Philipp, currently, the borders of the pager are much too thick when its size is really small. When switching desktops by moving the mouse to the screen's border, the preview of the desktop looks nice, but from a usability point of view, it does not add anything useful I'm afraid. What should it tell me? If it is the right desktop, then I click to switch to it. If it is the wrong one, it does not help me to find the right one at all. What would be more useful is the pager appearing when one hits the screen borders, with the "next" desktop being the default one to click on. Coming from Linux, I also second the other requests by Philipp and the one by Jon Stovell. Thanks a lot, and looking forward to the next Beta/Final version! Sam Kent,

Thanks a lot for making this great preference pane! Especially the addition of the pager is extremely appreciated.

I have my dock displayed without the glass effect at the bottom and glued to the left border of the screen, leaving some space at the bottom right.

If it were possible to put the Warp pager next to the Dock and in the same look as the dock, that would be the perfect setup. The advantage of this is that application windows respect the dock when they are resizing, hence the Warp pager would not get into the way of any windows. As mentioned by Philipp, currently, the borders of the pager are much too thick when its size is really small.

When switching desktops by moving the mouse to the screen’s border, the preview of the desktop looks nice, but from a usability point of view, it does not add anything useful I’m afraid. What should it tell me? If it is the right desktop, then I click to switch to it. If it is the wrong one, it does not help me to find the right one at all. What would be more useful is the pager appearing when one hits the screen borders, with the “next” desktop being the default one to click on.

Coming from Linux, I also second the other requests by Philipp and the one by Jon Stovell.

Thanks a lot, and looking forward to the next Beta/Final version!

Sam

]]> By: Stevenhttp://ksuther.com/blog/2008/12/21/warp-12-beta-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3369 Steven Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:24:33 +0000 http://ksuther.com/blog/?p=72#comment-3369 Hello. I'm in love with Warp, because a lot of the times I get really lazy when browsing, and can't be arsed to use the keyboard at all. The click to warp feature is great for me, but it gets annoying at times, especially with the dock and menubar. If there's an option to remove the preview from the edge warp, it'd be so much better. Additionally, a right-click to warp would be better as well, because I often warp when I want to access something on my dock. Thank you for your efforts. PS: I know my grammar sucks now. It's late and I'm tired, so please don't mind it :P Hello. I’m in love with Warp, because a lot of the times I get really lazy when browsing, and can’t be arsed to use the keyboard at all. The click to warp feature is great for me, but it gets annoying at times, especially with the dock and menubar.

If there’s an option to remove the preview from the edge warp, it’d be so much better. Additionally, a right-click to warp would be better as well, because I often warp when I want to access something on my dock.

Thank you for your efforts.

PS: I know my grammar sucks now. It’s late and I’m tired, so please don’t mind it :P

]]> By: Fred Brunnerhttp://ksuther.com/blog/2008/12/21/warp-12-beta-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3359 Fred Brunner Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:04:21 +0000 http://ksuther.com/blog/?p=72#comment-3359 So, some issues: - I have a 2 screen setup (10.5.6) and the minipager displays by default on the secondary display (the display without the menubar). Not a bug, per se, but unexpected. - This beta when I installed it camped the "w" key by default. I had no hotkey set for the HUD, but with Warp beta installed, it ate all keypresses of 'w'. I installed over 1.1.1, logged out, and logged back in. Whenever I would type 'w' the minipager would display, so I assume it grabbed that as the hotkey somehow. I didn't try setting a new hotkey, since I don't want the minipager (and I notice there is no way to not display it). FWIW. Like the app in general, but 1.1.1 with the drag switching screens bug and 1.2 beta eating all my 'w' keys kind of makes it problematical to use. Look forward to future developments, though! So, some issues:

- I have a 2 screen setup (10.5.6) and the minipager displays by default on the secondary display (the display without the menubar). Not a bug, per se, but unexpected.

- This beta when I installed it camped the “w” key by default. I had no hotkey set for the HUD, but with Warp beta installed, it ate all keypresses of ‘w’. I installed over 1.1.1, logged out, and logged back in. Whenever I would type ‘w’ the minipager would display, so I assume it grabbed that as the hotkey somehow. I didn’t try setting a new hotkey, since I don’t want the minipager (and I notice there is no way to not display it).

FWIW. Like the app in general, but 1.1.1 with the drag switching screens bug and 1.2 beta eating all my ‘w’ keys kind of makes it problematical to use. Look forward to future developments, though!

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