Re: placing windows behind finder icons

FROM : Simon Stapleton
DATE : Fri Nov 22 10:46:28 2002

From: Yann Bizeul <<email_removed>>
>
> That works perfectly !!!
>
> Thanks to you, I'm writing an app to display log files on the
> background (it's called GeekTool ;-))
> I write it because I do not want to pay DesktopConsole, but I will not
> release it unitil I have more features (i.e. shell commands logging).
> It will be opensource

ISTR a recent thread bemoaning the lack of jobs and the fact that
shareware authors aren't going to get rich any more.

Now, maybe DesktopConsole is a very simple app, and maybe the pricing
is way out there, but it's not that expensive.  And it's pretty slick. 
Damn, it's even scriptable.  It's quite nice, really, and the
functionality is excessively useful for developers.

As it happens, I don't use it - I hacked my own app together that does
similar things, only monitors console.log, and does the things I wanted
that DesktopConsole doesn't do.  It took all of a couple of hours to
write, although all configuration is through `defaults write ...` as
opposed to a slick user interface.  But I wrote it because DTC doesn't
do what I want, wheras my app does.  I didn't write it because I 'do
not want to pay'.  Still, if anyone feels the need to not pay for DTC,
but fancies paying me, I can wrap a slick little prefs panel around my
code and release it as non-cripppled shareware ;-)

My point being that we can't have it both ways.  Either pay for
shareware, or stop moaning about the fact nobody pays for shareware...

</rant>

Simon

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