Stardock and Expose'

November 25, 2004 1:00 PM from

I wonder what it would take to get Stardock to write an Expose' clone for Windows. Maybe if we make enough clamour?

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Reply #1 November 25, 2004 2:26 PM from

There's one out there called Winplosion. It's still very early and not 100% accurate yet, still a bit rough. but it does do an emulation of Exposé in XP.
It's shareware and you the site is here:
http://www.winplosion.com/

Reply #2 November 26, 2004 5:43 AM from

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If we were to code a fancy taskswitching feature, it would most likely be part of WindowFX.

Reply #3 November 26, 2004 11:43 PM from

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Hi Neil. That is just where I thought it might go. Can we do anything to encourage this?

Reply #4 November 27, 2004 1:20 AM from

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what can Expose do that can't be done with windows' taskbar?
The functional aspect, that is.

I don't really care for fancy special effects that serve no purpose

Reply #5 November 27, 2004 6:22 PM from

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Funny, because the first time I saw that I thought, "Oh my gosh, that is sooo practical I want it." I can see how a separate component/utility might end up being a resource hog, but it seems useful to me to see all the apps tiled like that.

Reply #6 November 27, 2004 11:34 PM from

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but windows task bar can already do "Cascade Windows", "Tile Windows Horizontally", "Tile Windows Vertically", "Show Desktop" and "Undo Cascade/Tile/Minimize All" .....

Expose looked useful on a Mac, because the Mac never had a taskbar

OK, so the animations are cool... but whatever

Reply #7 November 28, 2004 10:50 AM from

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Yeah, I see what you mean. I suppose I could use KeyboardLaunchPad to do the same thing, but what are the command lines for the items you've listed above? Anybody?

Reply #8 November 28, 2004 11:02 AM from

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If you use the taskbar functions of Cascade Windows, or Tile Windows..... get ready to reposition and resize all of your open windows.

Reply #9 November 28, 2004 11:44 AM from

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I want to give it a try first, but I can't find anything on the command-line syntax for "show desktop", "tile windows", ect.

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