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Chris asked a question in Dockland Software on August 16, 2009 10:46:

WHATS GOING ON WITH GRAPE? DEAD? ALIVE?

Well eons ago I was hoping to get on the grape beta. I would still love to but I fear this project is dead.

Chris replied on April 18, 2009 20:42 to the question "Open Source implementation, license?" in Dockland Software:

Well Said.

Chris replied on April 18, 2009 15:10 to the idea "Change the UI and make more...like leopard o tiger" in Dockland Software:

I think the idea here is to maximize the desktop and OS X standards do not apply

Chris replied on April 18, 2009 12:22 to the idea "Thickness of tiles" in BumpTop:

I would like to add my 2¢

This is my main peeve with BT. Also the thickness could represent large files as well. A visual representation of HD space taken.

Chris started following the idea "Thickness of tiles" in BumpTop.

Chris replied on April 18, 2009 12:07 to the question "How soon - if ever - are we going to see thick files come back?" in BumpTop:

This is my main disappointment as well, Shadows and 3D icons need to be better. I read the Wiki info but I think most of us are really confused at how much BT changed from the TED Demo. The Rendering engine was probably different then. It rendered the desktop much better than what we have now. So why was that given up? Was it running on Linux? No Idea? A Graphics Powerhouse?

I think most people now have pretty powerful machines that can run BT quite well. Gosh I can even run BT in a virtual Machine within Parallels and it is speedy and stable. What does this say... BT is not a resource hog. Possibly the pipes should open up a little and start adding back the awesome stuff seeing that the developers have plenty of overhead to work with.

Chris started following the question "How soon - if ever - are we going to see thick files come back?" in BumpTop.

A comment on the problem "Low quality textures on startup" in BumpTop:

Justin, I have the same issue. Initially the images on the Desktop were High Rez but now they are not. – Chris, on April 16, 2009 11:29

Chris started following the problem "Low quality textures on startup" in BumpTop.

Chris replied on April 16, 2009 11:12 to the idea "Have pile Grid View close on starting an application from it." in BumpTop:

May be a good option to add as an Option. But lets say I have a group of Ten images I want to open from grid view. If it closed every-time it launched an image I would have to open it up again. This would be very annoying at best.

A comment on the idea "Some Bumptop Widgets are ready for download." in BumpTop:

Shadow, like I said initially the clock did not work but they fixed the issue. I have not tried any of the others. Again Bump 2 Time... Works. Also the machine that I have it working on is XP sp2 with Net framework 3.0 only.... it did not need 3.5. Oh ya I think I forgot to say that .... It Works! – Chris, on April 16, 2009 11:06

A comment on the idea "Some Bumptop Widgets are ready for download." in BumpTop:

They work at least the clock works. I was having issues until they uploaded a working version so if you D/L'ed it within the last week D/Led it again. Again they work.... you must be installing it wrong. – Chris, on April 15, 2009 08:13

Chris started following the question "so when will bump 2 panes be released?" in Indakind Designs.

A comment on the idea "Some Bumptop Widgets are ready for download." in BumpTop:

Matt Thanks it works now.... I tried everything. – Chris, on April 14, 2009 22:05

Chris marked one of Daniel Tolin's replies in BumpTop as useful. Daniel Tolin replied to the idea "Perfect BumpTop".

A comment on the idea "Some Bumptop Widgets are ready for download." in BumpTop:

See the next post.... – Chris, on April 14, 2009 13:56

A comment on the idea "Some Bumptop Widgets are ready for download." in BumpTop:

Use a D/L manager it will help you out in your daily computing as well

Flashget - http://www.flashget.com/en/download.htm – Chris, on April 14, 2009 13:13

Chris replied on April 14, 2009 13:01 to the idea "Some Bumptop Widgets are ready for download." in BumpTop:

But how do you setup your test machines.... I'm sure there are things that you have to install first when starting from a freshly installed OS. There is something that we are all overlooking and not installing. Heres so help

#0 Fresh install in Parallels Desktop of XP sp2 or Fresh Install on hardware
#1 Nvidia 182.50 Drivers
#2 Follow the Tech Docs provided by BumpTop
#3 Install -Visual C++ 2005 redistributables

Thats all that BumpT tells us we should install.... but I think you are installing something else to get it to work.

Chris replied on April 14, 2009 12:41 to the idea "3D YouTube (BumpTube)" in BumpTop:

3D TV is Here .... just use BumpTube. Good idea

Chris started following the idea "3D YouTube (BumpTube)" in BumpTop.