Dr. Dave

Indeed why not have a full screen option?

regards,

Thomas

“Right Zoom utility is created for people who don’t like a default behaviour of green Zoom button in Mac OS X programs. This small program changes its behaviour, so a green button will always maximize your windows to all available screen space instead of inconvenient resizing. You will also be able to maximize the active window with Command + Option + E keys (can be customised).
The program changes a behaviour of most annoying examples of inconvenient zoom button behaviour (Finder, Safari, MS Office, Pages etc). You can easily extend this list with your own applications.

You can customise it to expand the windows with Option key pressed only, or use your own hotkey to expand windows to a full size.

More options are available to customise. Hold Cmd key on program startup to configure its options.”

Tsk.

SUX

I just bought my first mac (mac pro notebook 13 inc)

i am a windows user at work and home too.

and first thing i ask a mac user friend was how to blow up windows in fullscreen.

this is the first bad thing i had with mac so far. but a critical part. MUST BE FIXED ASAP!

the 2 things which were stated in this thread that were most poignant, was the guy who mentioned, and there are plenty of silly mac zealots out there who defend this; you’ll see them right after this post i’m sure, that say, “the lack of maximize is an awesome feature”, albeit not in the exact words, but they’ll FIERCELY DEFEND THE LACK OF A FEATURE, even if it’s an option THEY DON’T HAVE TO USE. i personally like the ability to maximize a window for maximum size on a small screen, like my laptop, i.e. because of limited screen real estate. and yes, it is very frustrating when, as the other post, which stated, “So many times at work I’ve watched Mac users “maximise” their windows by first moving the window to the upper left, then clicking and dragging the bottom right. What a waste of time!”

now, mac zealots… idiots… i love mac os, i really do, even though you morons are going to tell me that if i want this feature to go use windows; but for you imbeciles who like to waste your time “maximizing” a window by moving it and dragging the lower right corner, or using small windows. you can still choose to have it that way if you wish; you don’t HAVE to use the windows full screen if you don’t want to. windows windows have the full screen option, or you can use them smaller, like mac windows.

are we proud mac users going to defend a lack of a feature, and option, and criticize windows for having superior window handling, i.e. more options? if you want to have a cluttered wacky window system, fine with me, what you do on your computer is your business, but give me, and the rest of us who desire some better functionality, that OPTION.

megazoomer you can download it for mac

well thats all hope this helped peace out

I strongly believe that other than computers, people (especially men) are not meant to multitask. We are just not wired that way (any intro level book about the evolution of the brain will tell you why).

For this reason, I try to remove all visual distraction when working. That means: When I read (or write), much like with a physical book, I do not want to see dozens of buttons, sliders or other GUI widgets. Just text will do, thank you, and if I feel like dragging + dropping something from A to B (happens two times a week), I will resize the window to do that.

Now you can say a lot of bad things about Windows, but the typical Windows app will allow you to switch off all those annoying “bars” and guides, so you can literally strip the thing once you know all the key shortcuts.

A Mac app will (due to the different philosophy with regards to menus and their relation to windows) always leave some chrome on screen that just cannot be switched off. And this *is* distracting. There are a few exceptions like the fullscreen modes for media players (VLC, QuickTime) and Keynotes, but for me, this is not enough.

I love my Mac, and I preach the advantages of its minimalistic GUI concept to everyone. But it ends with the windows chrome (menu bar, scroll-bars and the three buttons) – they will always stay onscreen.

As a grown-up who does not need these visual crutches, I’d like to switch these visual aids off and make whatever window I am currently working on full-screen – no handles, no scroll-bars; just the pure content (text, image, whatever).

Is that really too much to ask for?

You can do all that with a maximised window. The Fx keys still work and you can do “click, drag, F11, drop”. Or like I do, with hot corners that show the desktop.

But most of all, I think I can choose for myself if I want to have a maximized window for whatever or a partial window to drag stuff off it. What, I can’t learn how to drag&drop AND maximize windows, wtf ?

I don’t give a crap about OS wars, but saying “the lack of maximize is an awesome feature because you can drag and drop, dude! awesome!” is retarded.
Some people need it, some don’t, that’s all there is to it.

There are plenty of other programs that do not need to be maximized to be used, for example Gaim, which I usually keep hidden.

However, I can see how someone coming from a Mac background would need to maximize all windows to keep the menu bar in its predictable location.">

I sometimes have a need to see the Desktop when working with OS X, what people seem to forget Mac OS is a very drag and drop operating system, for example if i’m browsing the web and there is a particular piece of text or picture I want to refer back to at a latter time, I just drag it to the desktop, with text it creates a clipboard cutting of the text and with a picture it’s like right clicking and save image as in windows. Try it out, it’s really quite useful.

If you learn to use a Mac the way in which Apple intended you will find it’s a lot more intuitive and easier to use than windows, although having said that, sometimes, not always but sometimes it comes in handy having a window maximize to fullscreen. But the green button maximizes to show all contents of the window without the need for scrolling, (if it can) in my opinion, why have the window fill up the screen with useless space? What’s the point in having say the google homepage with a lot of white empty space all over the screen like you’d get if running a web browser in fullscreen on windows.

LOL … full ack

dennis

Just option-green button
or apple-green button
or cntl-green button if you want contextual menus

Why do I say “intuitive”? Because that’s what I just tried and it didn’t work. ARGGHHH!

C’mon Apple!

My main reason for full screening a window is because I find the desktop and other layered windows that I’m not working on a huge distraction. Maybe I just have OCD or someting, but it really bothers me when I can see the desktop behind the application I’m working on.

Another reason is as a graphic designer, when I view my work, I need to see how a page is laid out with a flat grey background. This background is displayed easily when full screened, only requiring a couple of quick keystrokes to zoom out. The green button only crops the window to the edges of my image, cutting off that grey mat. As most graphic designers and artists, I zoom out and compare my work constantly. So, you could see how resizing that window all the time could get quite annoying. If you’re not a graphic designer, artist or photogropher, you may not know what Im talking about, but I thought I would share anyway.

Also, only being able to manually resize a window from the bottom right corner is really annoying too.