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Join Date: Jul 2004
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This guy I work with just bought an Apple laptop - he came from the PC side of things, and was asking me how to expand the window to fit the entire screen - Like you can do in Windows. I was telling him that if you hit the + button the window will toggle between 2 screen sizes, but it will not fill the entire scren like he was wanting.
Then I was perplexed - I have been using Macs for years, and never needed this function - or maybe if I did, I just streched the window. Is there a way to do this? |
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: London, UK
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I just do it manually. Next time you open that application, it will open in the size you dragged it to.
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Join Date: May 2004
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No, there is no 'Maximize' like there is in Windows. The 'Zoom' toggle you showed him flips between two sizes: user specified, and 'optimal', where 'optimal' is determined by the application. It lets the application figure out exactly how big the window needs to be to show all the content, and not waste space. Maximized windows on the Mac are a waste, because it destroys one of the most basic functionalities - drag and drop between windows. Since this is pretty broken in Windows to begin with, maximize isn't losing them much of anything, but on the Mac it *seriously* impacts what you can do.
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Why oh why do people want to do this? I just don't get it. I don't know how often I'll sit at a PC, fire up Word and be greeted by 3 inches of completely wasted space on the right because the contents of a page don't stretch that far. Or when I open up IE or FF and I get blasted in the face with nothing but a 4 inch wide border on both sides of the content because the thing is maximized. How on Earth do people work like that?
I can only sort of see this kind of thing when "single-tasking" because there's nothing else to look at (but not even then, really - lots of white space hurts my eyes to look at) but when you're using a modern computer? It's just stupid, IMNHO. |
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is the next Chiquita
Join Date: Feb 2005
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because they had a tiny monitor to start with?
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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