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A comment on the idea "Floating below applications." in Second Gear:

Again geektool _seems_ to the right thing. Open Source too. – Jonathan Wight, on August 21, 2008 22:22

Jonathan Wight replied on August 21, 2008 22:21 to the idea "Floating below applications." in Second Gear:

And FWIW the right float level is attained by Geektool. Above desktop picture, below finder icons.

Thanks!

kdbdallas replied on August 21, 2008 22:13 to the idea "Floating below applications." in Second Gear:

I have missed so many meetings since stattoo stopped working in Leopard. Would love this feature added to Today. Thanks in advance.

Jonathan Wight replied on August 21, 2008 22:07 to the idea "Floating below applications." in Second Gear:

Oh yeah. Kinda like Stattoo: http://www.panic.com/stattoo/ but with less suck. (thanks to http://twitter.com/kdbdallas/statuses...)

Marcus S. Zarra replied on August 21, 2008 22:05 to the idea "Floating below applications." in Second Gear:

And make it so that it remains while exposé is showing the desktop?

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Jonathan Johnson replied on May 28, 2008 03:42 to the problem "Hiding via the hotkey does not bring the previously active window forward" in Second Gear:

That fixes it for both in the menubar and in the dock setups. You'll get my money in a few minutes for the awesome support :)

Jonathan Johnson marked one of Justin Williams' replies in Second Gear as useful. Justin Williams replied to the problem "Hiding via the hotkey does not bring the previously active window forward".

Justin Williams replied on May 28, 2008 03:13 to the problem "Hiding via the hotkey does not bring the previously active window forward" in Second Gear:

Check out my latest builds page. I put up a new version that looks to fix the issue. If it looks OK on your end, I'll keep the fix in for 1.1.1 (coming tomorrow or Thursday).

http://secondgearllc.com/downloads/la...

Jonathan Johnson replied on May 28, 2008 02:23 to the problem "Hiding via the hotkey does not bring the previously active window forward" in Second Gear:

I honestly don't have any other hotkey apps that bring up a non-HUD window that takes the key focus.

I just tested with the app in the dock and in the menubar -- the same behavior in either situation, except that when it lives in the Dock, the Today menu remains frontmost.

That makes me wonder, what would happen if you call [[NSApplication sharedApplication] hide] when hiding the window?

(By the way, this is an awesome site, kudos for using it.)

Justin Williams replied on May 28, 2008 02:16 to the problem "Hiding via the hotkey does not bring the previously active window forward" in Second Gear:

Hmm. Do other applications that have a similar hotkey functionality return the active state to the previously selected window? If it's possible, I can see if I can sneak the fix into 1.1.1.

NilObject reported a problem in Second Gear on May 28, 2008 02:03:

Hiding via the hotkey does not bring the previously active window forward

When using the global hotkey to show and then hide Today, the previously active window does not reactivate. For example, let's say that I'm in Safari, and I press the hotkey to show Today. It comes forward perfectly. I press the hotkey again because I'm done with it. Today then vanishes, but the Safari window is no longer frontmost -- no window is.

This isn't a huge deal, but for such a focused app, it feels like a big deal to me for some reason :) It interrupts my workflow, causing me to reach for my mouse.