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Great idea – that would be a nice addition to the original! 👌 Certainly could come in handy! I would much prefer for this to be controlled automatically in code, so that the duration of the animation is constant around 0,25 s like in OS X, and the number of rects in the animation is reduced...

Wonderful! :) I hope my comments will make sense. First of all: the algorithm for moving the windows, as well as the overall functionality, is already spot on – behaves just like the original! Really amazing work! My impressions after some further testing: Now that I see it in action, the...

@Crutch, I can't tell you how amazingly cool this is! Thank you so much for helping make this a reality. No more constant double clicking on windows to access the desktop!! I've been running the extension for a while now, and it's completely stable on my setup – super impressive for a beta...

Well, you sort of raised my anticipation when you shared the videos and said 1–2 days! I initially revisited the page several times a day but eventually stopped after ten days or so :) Anyway, great news that you got the control panel in place now! Can't wait to try it out on my PowerBook. Will...

Wonderful! Really impressive how quickly you’ve been able to put this together! Seems you already got all the functionality in place. Completely ignoring all the Toolbox and low level intricacies, it would probably have taken me a week just to code the zoom rect animation and window movement...

The window update looks totally okay by the way. I actually didn't notice it at first. The question is how it would work with icons, but the way it works here is an acceptable compromise, I think.

Talking about that, would you mind sharing the beta version? 🙌 :D

Wow, this is amazing!! After dreaming about this for some 15 years, I was so fascinated just by my own mockup that I've probably replayed it more than a hundred times by now 😄 and to now see it take shape as an actual extension is so incredibly cool! Amazing work! Can't wait to try it out on...

Haha, thanks! 😄 Without you this wouldn't have happened at all, so likewise! I hope you like it. I always have it set to the upper right corner, like in the mockup, so if I'd have to make only one choice, that'd be it 🙂 But anything is fine for now! You probably know more about the Finder at...

Took some time during the week to create a design for the icon and control panel: I'm personally mostly interested in the reveal desktop part, so I would prefer a separate control panel just for it. (I certainly wouldn't mind creating a design for another one that combines both though, if we...

I'm not sure if I follow you here… I got the impression that you had everything working in your post on Thursday. Is this just a side investigation like you said at the beginning, or did you have to deviate from your first solution? This probably doesn't add much of value, but on my PowerBook...

Wonderful news! That's a bit more QuickDraw terminology than I'm used to, but after consulting the eminent Think Reference for a while I believe I follow along pretty well :) Fantastic that you found an efficient way to do the screen updates! Can't wait to see the first demo! Did you...

All right, that makes more sense! They all have to animate together of course. Easier when you have the full picture. I'll leave the coding to you then :D My idea here was to just hide all windows, draw the zoom rects and then create new, empty, inactive windows with the same sizes (or just...

@Crutch, I take it from your answer that you don’t know of any way to access the system’s zoom rect algorithm, so I did some further investigation. An acceleration rate of 1.18 seems to match the original animation quite well. To minimize the number of calculations, I’m thinking it’s better to...

I didn't immediately realize that that extra "by the way" makes things quite a bit more complicated, since it means you can't just reverse the animations like I specified in the algorithm. If it makes things too complicated, restoring all windows and just making the selected folder/window the...

By the way, double-clicking the icon of a folder that's currently open and hidden will bring that particular window back, while leaving the rest hidden.

Haha, good! :) I'm totally fine with that. (But I personally only use a single monitor, so :) ) Great, sounds awesome! I personally only use the top right screen corner, like in the mockup. Ideally, it would possible to set it up freely in a control panel, but I'm open to any keystroke at the...

Great! Let me know if it starts to become overwhelming or tedious and I'll try to help the best I can. It would be cool to have the actual windows move of course, but I prefer to have a consistent interface (an extension exists that enables live dragging of windows, and that alone is rather...

Ps. Right click on the video and open it in a separate tab to view it correctly – it seems to get scaled by the forum software, which doesn't work very well with 1-bit graphics…

No problem! Having fun is the most important thing :) Anyway, I finally got some time to create the mock-up. Basically, functionality-wise I'm thinking an exact clone of the implementation in OS X. I created a topic for the idea/project here...