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- TopDesk 1.00 for NEXTSTEP Release 3
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- TopDesk is an extremely powerful virtual screen manager, with a lot of
- interesting unique features. Some features are:
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- - User control over the size and scale of the virtual screen.
- + Virtual screen window with scrollers and accessories controlling the size
- and scale of the virtual screen independently of the window size.
- + Applications names in the windows, with user-settable font and a default
- name for unknown applications.
- - Different defaults colors for different windows kinds, background, fonts...
- + Custom colors for the windows, contexts and applications, with opacity use.
- - Sticky windows.
- + Protected windows.
- - Image view of the windows.
- + Graphical and color attributes indicating the status of a window.
- + Dock showing application running status.
- + Automatic scrolling of the virtual screen in eight directions.
- + Hot keys, accessible at any moment, to scroll the virtual screen.
- + Panner letting the user move in various ways.
- + Easily movable virtual screen.
- + Windows and icons utilities menu (moving, sticking, aligning etc...)
- + User-settable action modifiers for performing various actions on a window
- or a whole context's windows.
- + User-settable grid, constraining moves on the grid.
- - Real-time moves.
- + Viewport image while moving it.
- + Automatic screen-switching when double-clicking an application icon.
- + Automatic following of the key window, with fine control over the
- following.
- + Hiding of some applications' windows.
- + Resources letting one specify where an application should be launched, if
- its windows must be stuck, what the windows color will be, and more; these
- resources are maintained at the VirtScreen level, the system level and the
- user level for ease of sharing.
- + Inheritance of resources and other properties (per-application, per-context
- and per-window, then default values).
- + Touched windows that do not inherit anymore.
- + Fine control over what is displayed in the Virtual Screen window.
- + Powerful support for multi-headed displays, with specific features.
- + Applications activation and launch from within VirtScreen, with automatic
- launch of applications at startup.
- + Intelligent activation of windows in the virtual screen (e.g. a miniwindow
- is deminiaturized and a hidden application is unhidden first).
- + Comprehensive set of preferences for the expert user, defaulting to
- intuitive values for the novice user.
- + Extensive online help with tips and hints and FAQ.
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- + And a lot more...
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- This application will run in demo mode for approximatively 10 minutes. You can
- buy a license key which will let you use the full power of the application
- by asking for a license from within the application Registration Panel.
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- The application supports all four NEXTSTEP architctures (m68k, i386, hppa and
- sparc), and has a comprehensive english hypertext help.
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- Feel free to copy and distribute this version. Get the TopDeskTrap companion
- utility for TopDesk, too.
-
- Yves Arrouye (topdesk@petole.imag.fr --- NeXT/MIME Mail)
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- The TopDesk Tools can be got from the author's machine (preferrably outside
- local business hours, i.e. between 1800 MET and 0900 MET). Get the software
- from
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- ftp://petole.imag.fr/pub/next/sevy/TopDeskTools/
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- and do not forget to get the documentation, the applications and the license
- servers.
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