I’ve finally - finally! - gotten Monocle 1.5 out the door.
It works on Tiger and Leopard, it provides suggestions and results as you type, it fixes a few bugs and changes some things around, and, I’ve been told, it is ridiculously awesome in many other regards.
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Is that meant to be there?
By http://duemoko.livejournal.com/ · 2008.01.21 23:34
Nope - I ran the app through Trimmit to slim down TIFF files and remove unused translations, and it removed the correct stuff except for in the Sparkle framework (the piece of reusable code I’m using to get the “automatic updates” for free), where it for some reason kept the Swedish translation and not the English translation. (I can see why it picked Swedish specifically since my date formats and such are in Swedish, but my system language happens to be English - really, the entire OS and everything.)
I have rereleased this under the same version number. There have been ten downloads of 1.5 to date, including two I did. You and seven other people can redownload it.
By Jesper · 2008.01.21 23:56
Wonderful, thanks for this and forgot to say I liked the Star Wars quote :)
By http://duemoko.livejournal.com/ · 2008.01.22 00:17
Very polished, very nice.
Three bits of feedback:
I like the iPhone-style scroll bar, but the fact that you can’t use the mouse to scroll at a all is a bit confusing.
The triangles in the results look like disclosure triangles, so I had an instinct to press the right arrow key to open them.
I think the dropdown button to the right of the search box should somehow change appearance when clicked to indicate it has been activated.
But overall, very nice.
By Scott Stevenson · 2008.01.22 01:21
1: Mouse functionality was deemed postponable: it’ll be implemented soon.
2: They were actually solid and less grey than ordinary “disclosure triangles” until just a few hours ago, when I changed them to hollow ones, which still got the point across (several other arrows I tried looked meek or weird) without looking almost exactly like clickable disclosure triangles.
3: That’s a good point now that you can tab to it - the menu appearing kinda gives it away when just clicking is an option (as it was before).
For almost any misfeature in Monocle or glossed-over opportunity, I can probably answer: “that was slated to be in, but since I wanted to ship something now right before a busy period, I’d rather not risk being in the middle of implementing it and therefore being unable to ship it”. This took a third of December and most of January up until now, and I’m glad it’s where it is now. That doesn’t invalidate any suggestions you, Scott, or anyone else may have, I just wanted to clarify this.
Also, thanks.
By Jesper · 2008.01.22 01:36
Congrats on getting the release out!
Now, one thing I’d like to know is if there’s a way to remove Safari’s search field altogether. It’s not that it wastes too much screen estate; rather, its existence often makes me instinctively use that over Monocle. So, anyone have a trick?
By http://chucker23n.livejournal.com/ · 2008.01.22 10:35
As it happens, Mac OS X Hints just ran a hint on removing the Google search box from Safari 3.
By Jesper · 2008.01.22 19:30