Comments on: Apple wants another Mail Team Engineer

By: Marc Nothrop

Marc Nothrop — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:38:25 +0000

I agree with Dan that proxy icons are a really valuable, albeit hidden, shortcut; I’m always dragging the proxy icon of documents to open then in different apps (e.g. previewing HTML in various browsers), or dragging a web site icon into Mail, to send the URL (…you did buy OmniWeb during Nov., right!?) …(in the others you can drag the site icon from the URL field, of course.)

…but I’m afraid Opt-Cmd doesn’t come into this, Cmd-clicking a proxy icon gives you the path to the file’s location so you can open it’s containing folder etc., and decent browsers (read: OmniWeb and Safari) give you the heirarchy of the web page, such that you can navigate back to a preceeding level of the site (or again, just the containing directory, e.g. when viewing an image/file Cmd-click to view a directory listing, assuming you’re allowed.)

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:42:08 +0000

Nice tip, Mr Warne! Thanks for pointing that out.

By: Dan Warne

Dan Warne — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:35:53 +0000

Well, actually, all you have to do email an open document in ANY application in OS X is to hold down CMD+OPT and click+drag the tiny icon in the title bar of the document down onto the Mail.app icon.

Admittedly this functionality is rather hidden but it’s bloody useful once you learn it.

By: JO

JO — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:49:21 +0000

I wish they’d make some of the functions of Mail available system-wide. If I’m reading a cool PDF in Preview or Safari and want to send it to someone, why can’t I just click a button to send it? Instead I have to download it from Safari, find it in Finder, and then drag it to the Mail icon in the dock. So much dragging is a … drag.

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:59:13 +0000

@Daniel: Fair point. It is tempting to think of them all giving up in disgust as stationary, eye-candy and all kinds of window-dressing is foisted on Leopard Mail, or for some more plausible reason but they may be leaving happily, not least for the reasons Plaid Cow suggests.

I’ve made a tweak in your honour.

By: The Plaid Cow

The Plaid Cow — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:55:38 +0000

And if you spend enough time on a project you can be irreplaceable, and hence unpromotable.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:37:09 +0000

Just one nitpick: times of high job rotation don’t necessarily have to be linked to unhappiness. People in such a position could, for instance, be getting coaxed out of their old happy jobs into new, even happier ones.

Also remember that the Aperture “shake up,” in which many members of the original team apparently moved on to other projects, preceded the release of what people seem to think is a much improved version of the application.