Neat Little Mac Apps Review
The Neat Little Mac Apps podcast (iTunes link) has taken the time to review Overflow, and I just wanted to say thanks!
They do mention two problems in the podcast, the first of which (Overflow sometimes can’t find a newly updated application that it should be able to) will be fixed as part of the next update. The second, the hotkey selection not showing up correctly in the preferences, seems to be machine type specific, but a fix for that is also in the works. Looks like some beta testers with various configurations will be needed for that one.
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Count me in on that beta testing
My two main gripes with Overflow are:
1) It lacks the ability to set icon size per category or “to fit”. Right now I have to use 16×16 pixel icons just because two categories contain many applications.
2) There’s no preference to get rid of the Dock icon like Quicksilver does. I only use the hotkey so the Dock icon is just a waste of space.
Otherwise it’s a nice application.
@Jimmy. It’s fairly easy to hack the application yourself to remove the Dock icon. There’s a Mac OS X Hints http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010701191518268
Note that it removes the applications menu bar as well, but with Overflow most of what you would use the menu bar for can be accessed through keyboard shortcuts.
What configs you looking for with testing?
Also, What I’d love to see but probably nobody else would want is dynamic Overflow tabs.
EX: - I have four tabs currently. I’d love to be able to have say 16 apps on the 1st tab, 12 apps on the second tab, 20 apps on tab 3, and 8 apps on tab 4 (with no black for missing apps on the smaller tabs). Right now if I do this I would have extra room (black space) on tabs 1,2, and 4. Have the window expand and contract to the various amount of apps on a given tab. Probably more work that it’s worth though…
In my case; using references to AFP-shares will result in funky behaviour: upon launching OverFlow it’ll try to mount all the shares. If you’d cancel this OverFlow removes all references to the shares (showing only ‘?’ symbols).
Apart from this, it’s a great Dock alternative!
My three comments / wish list.
1. Let me have a window that is wider than 20 icons wide. I have all my apps on one tab and the width limit is annoying.
2. Hot-key will not recognize any modifier other than Command, let me use Option, Control, Shift, Tab as well.
3. Have a preference to make Overflow replace the systems Command-Tab application switcher. > Overflow is that good.
The above suggestions are good. How about the ability to select a category without having to mouse click? Like just hover over it and it becomes selected.