Posts by Terry Harpold

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Wishlist for Mac (Message 21797)
Posted 14 Dec 2008 by Terry Harpold
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See my post elsewhere to the BOINC Manager Forum:

The habit of cluttering the menubar with bitty icons when the full features of an application are available from the Mac OS X Dock is something borrowed from that, um, other operating system.

I really have no reason to use the BOINC menu when all of its features are available from the a click-hold on the BOINC Manager (6.2.18) icon in the Dock -- where, in fact, they should be made available according to standard Mac OS practices. The GUI of the Mac version of BOINC Manager could use a lot of polish, but I strongly suggest that one of the priorities for this should be to give users of the Mac Manager the option to show or hide the menubar icon.
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Need option to hide BOINC Manager Menu in Mac OS X (Message 21729)
Posted 11 Dec 2008 by Terry Harpold
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Hmm... No, that's not it. I *want* to run BOINC Manager -- to be reminded that BOINC is running and to allow me to quickly click on the icon in the Dock so as to see my progress.

I just don't need or want the menuItem in the menu bar. I can see that a widget of this kind would be of use on Windows, but it's superfluous on a Mac and adds to the visual clutter of the screen. The menu bar should be reserved for control items that have no other direct interface (Mobile Me synching, speaker volume control, Spotlight queries, utilities like Hazel, etc.)

TH
3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Need option to hide BOINC Manager Menu in Mac OS X (Message 21727)
Posted 11 Dec 2008 by Terry Harpold
Post:
The habit of cluttering the menubar with bitty icons when the full features of an application are available from the Mac OS X Dock is something borrowed from that, um, other operating system.

I really have no reason to use the BOINC menu when all of its features are available from the a click-hold on the BOINC Manager (6.2.18) icon in the Dock -- where, in fact, they should be made available according to standard Mac OS practices. The GUI of the Mac version of BOINC Manager could use a lot of polish, but I strongly suggest that one of the priorities for this should be to give users of the Mac Manager the option to show or hide the menubar icon.

TH



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