Show Desktop
If your setup is like mine (1024x768 display on an iMac DV) where screen display is at a premium, you’ll appreciate the simplicity and effectiveness of a little app like Show Desktop. Sitting in your dock or menu bar, one-click of the icon will hide all open application windows and minimise Finder windows. So useful you almost wonder why it hasn’t been done before (or already implemented in the Finder).
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Posted 5 years, 3 months ago on 1st August 2003.
Comments
I’m puzzled as to why this wasn’t already a standard feature of OS-X. Even Windows has had it for years. Maybe the Apple engineers were hoping to create an OS in which you wouldn’t be tempted to put too much stuff on the desktop in the first place? Maybe with ExposÈ they’ve given in. It looks like being an excellent addition, especially as the functions are all accessible from keystrokes (just like Show Desktop, etc. in Mr Gates' offering).
You could always do this in OS X, it just took a few keystrokes and clicks to many. It’s easy to knock Windows but there’s definitely a few elements of the GUI that Apple engineers should take note of.
Phil · 5 years, 3 months ago
If you don’t mind holding down Command and Option, clicking on the Desktop while holding those down will hide every else but the Desktop. However, I’m looking forward to the new Panther stuff.
Robert Daeley · www · 5 years, 3 months ago
I have been grousing about this for years!!!
I never knew about the Command/Option, click desktop function THANKS MILLIONS
Took a google search to find this
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milt c · 4 years, 5 months ago
Showing the desktop is actually part of Expose in Panther, and it’s very slick indeed. Press a key, and all the windows fly off the screen in all directions. Press it again and they’re back.
Fungo · 5 years, 3 months ago