Re: Apple's Secret Desktop Sauce

FROM : j o a r
DATE : Thu Jun 15 23:54:25 2006

On 15 jun 2006, at 23.13, dave miller wrote:

> It seems as though every application from Apple that allows you to 
> drag files/clippings/whatever to the desktop (Mail, Finder, iPhoto, 
> iTunes) will place the dragged item(s) at the location that you 
> dragged it to (which is as it should be). But it seems as though 
> when dragging files/clippings/whatever from a third-party developer 
> application, the dragged item(s) will be placed at seemingly random 
> locations on the desktop. I'm running into the same problem, and I 
> find it *very* frustrating to drag a file from Transmit/Yojimbo/
> etc. to the desktop only to have it placed way on the other side of 
> my display.


I don't see this problem. When I drag things from my apps, they end 
up right where I drop them (Or ever so slightly offset, as I have 
"snapt to grid" enabled for the Desktop).

j o a r