Winson's dashboard

A comment on the idea "Beta 17 is out" in BumpTop:

Turn that frown upside down! Just kidding.
What's your email address? – winson, on December 10, 2008 23:44

winson replied on December 10, 2008 23:44 to the idea "Beta 17 is out" in BumpTop:

Both the about page and the Bump-this-Folder issues should be fixed -- can you give that another go?

winson replied on December 10, 2008 23:18 to the idea "Customizing the Email Icon, e.a. use your hotmail account" in BumpTop:

If you setup a program like gAttach (see https://bumptop.pbwiki.com/Advanced-C...), you can also use your webmail clients like gmail. Unfortunately, I'm not too sure if there are any Hotmail/Yahoo equivalents, but if so, you'd be able to use those as well.

winson replied on December 10, 2008 21:27 to the idea "Customizing the Email Icon, e.a. use your hotmail account" in BumpTop:

If you set up your local mail client (ie. outlook/live mail) then the toss-to-email icon will be able to use that client.

winson replied on December 10, 2008 19:35 to the praise "Bumptop with Win7" in BumpTop:

That's neat gusvic!

Can you post a screenshot? Does the integration like drag and drop, picking up changes to files, and right mouse button menu work?

winson replied on December 10, 2008 16:35 to the problem "BumpTop caused partition table error" in BumpTop:

Hi Jack,

That's a problem we've never seen occur before -- did anything happen during the installation? Since BumpTop is using the same msi installer as many other programs, it is unlikely that simply installing caused the partition table issues. If you check your hard drive's SMART properties, what does it say as to the state of your hard disk?

winson replied on December 10, 2008 16:33 to the problem "Cannot Parse Theme Properties File" in BumpTop:

Can you take a look at:
http://bumptop.pbwiki.com/BumpTop-Gen...

winson replied on December 09, 2008 20:17 to the problem "Cant use bumptop while lodading/unpacking/moving files." in BumpTop:

Hi,

We use WinRAR in the lab and didn't notice this being the case -- what archives are you unpacking and which programs are you using to unpack them?

winson replied on December 09, 2008 19:56 to the problem "Grid function problem" in BumpTop:

Good catch, we're actually just using an arbitrary order for the gridding since the initial positions of the icons (while they are pseudo aligned already in your case) can be arbitrary (ie. they can all be stacked on top of each other). We'll try and have a fix for this in one of our future updates.

winson replied on December 09, 2008 17:32 to the problem "BumpTop is running in fullscreen!" in BumpTop:

We're running with auto-hide as well -- when it's hidden do you still see a sliver of the taskbar shown? Also, does this happen after you restart BumpTop?

winson replied on December 09, 2008 17:10 to the problem "switch order of icons in piles" in BumpTop:

Should be fixed in the upcoming update, Thanks.

winson replied on December 09, 2008 17:04 to the problem "BumpTop is running in fullscreen!" in BumpTop:

Are you running any Windows Shell modifications? Like object dock or anything like that?

winson replied on December 09, 2008 16:52 to the problem "Wrong icon shown" in BumpTop:

Can you try the latest beta and see if this issue persists?

winson replied on December 09, 2008 16:50 to the question "Be open ...just open the code to world." in BumpTop:

We share your enthusiasm for the open source movement, but companies like Mozilla are the exception and not the norm (Mozilla used to sell commercial software as well, and just take a look at how many OS projects there are on sourceforge!). For the time being, we are looking at a more traditional business model, so that we have the opportunity to develop BumpTop a little further and reconsider these other options down the line.

winson replied on December 09, 2008 16:45 to the question "Bump Top memory usage" in BumpTop:

That's correct, it greatly depends on the number and type of icons on your desktop (ie. if there are a larger number of images, then we have to generate a larger number of thumbnails, etc.). Also note that the task manager is not entirely accurate as to the current memory usage (better in Vista than XP though), as it's up to the OS to determine if it needs to reallocate memory taken by a program for another process.

winson replied on December 08, 2008 21:01 to the problem "access control?" in BumpTop:

Hi Alberto,

The current upgrade process actually just reinstalls BumpTop anew, which is useful for us since we are still in the process of determining exactly which files we need for the final product and don't want to leave lingering files on our user's machines. As for why BumpTop requires admin access during the installation, that has already been explained above and is not unlike the installation of other highly integrated Windows applications like Photoshop or Office. After installation, BumpTop will just run with your user permissions and security level.

winson replied on December 05, 2008 21:31 to the problem "Internal error after unstack a pile of icons" in BumpTop:

That looks like it might possibly be a crash with the physics engine.
Can you do a search for the files 'scene.bump' and 'scene.bump.bak' and (save and) remove the files? This will reset the BumpTop desktop and should hopefully fix the problem.

winson replied on December 05, 2008 16:44 to the problem "Internal error after unstack a pile of icons" in BumpTop:

Hey Mul,

Can you send a screenshot or the exact message of the error?

winson replied on December 02, 2008 22:01 to the problem "Program keeps putting shortcut at root of C:\" in BumpTop:

Hi There,

We only really install the shortcuts to the Start Menu, Desktop, and the Quick Launch bar, but it appears as if your installation is somehow confused as to where these paths actually lead. MTFaye's question is a good one, and if you could do a quick test:

Remove the shortcut next time you see it, then open up the BumpTop Settings and change the setting to start up with Windows, and apply. If that incidentally creates the shortcut at C:\ again, let us know and perhaps we can do some quick debugging on your system.

Thanks

winson replied on December 02, 2008 21:59 to the idea "One-step mouse controls for everything" in BumpTop:

This is an interesting idea, and certainly something that we can visit in the future, but for the general public, hiding functionality behind ui behaviours like RMB, RMB+Drag+hotkeys is not usually a good idea.

Have you tried our Marking Menu (what you refer to as the wheel menu) Ballistics mode? Hold down the right mouse button and move towards the direction of the command that you want. Releasing immediately then invokes that action.