![]() Take your time, and make sure to keep your users in the dark. What exactly is the deal, guys? Have you decided to run your product into the ground? Did you ever really even consider adding Layer Styles? It’s only the single most wished-for feature in the history of Pixelmator. Quite obviously, after three years of intense silence on Layer Styles, that was quite a stinking load of bullshit right there. The thread had around 110 posts, and at some point Sebastian was there, assuring people that new features are prioritized according to the number of requests they get. Then I took a look at the forums, where people had asked for Layer Styles three years ago. Of course, lots of people are idiots, but can there really be that many people just blindly celebrating the somewhat less-than-ideal job the Pixelmator Team has done lately? It’s a strange contrast between the praise and legitimate complaints. In between the “AWESOME JOB GUYS!” -type of posts, people are complaining about serious bugs, the confusing new UI in 2.x, the strangely hard to read new color scheme for this blog, and so on. Then it occurred to me that maybe the Pixelmator team is posting shill comments to the threads. As usual, there were lots of comments breathlessly praising Pixelmator, without any specific reason as to why it’s the “BEST” etc. You know, for serious design work, if that’s what Pixelmator is aimed at, instead of just being a shiny toy.Īnyway, I read through a couple of the latest comment threads. not for selections anymore? What about Fill for selections – where did that go? Why did you change the de-select command – is it really less frequently used than Duplicate? Can we get Layer Styles already? □ Hah. Where is it? There’s a Stroke setting for Shapes, but. Dragging to Open/Save dialogs: The dragged file or folder is selected in the dialog.I can’t find the Stroke command anymore.Dragging to Terminal: The path of the dragged file or folder is inserted, space characters contained in the file path are properly escaped. ![]() Works with most other mail clients as well. Dragging to Mail: The dragged file is added as an attachment.Dragging to the Dock: The dragged item is put in the Dock.Dragging a bookmark item creates a “.webloc” file, double-clicking such a file opens the corresponding address in your web browser. Dragging to Finder: A dragged file or folder will be moved or copied.To start the drag from any other location within the bar, you have to hold down the Option key. To prevent unintended, accidental dragging of files (causing them to be moved or copied) you have to start the drag from within the selected item’s icon. You can either drag the selected item from the LaunchBar window as well as any other item from the search result menu. Items can be dragged from LaunchBar to other applications. This allows to perform entire file operations using the keyboard: Select the source, Copy (Command-C), Select the destination, Paste (Command-V). Copy/Paste of a file path pops up a menu asking for the desired file operation.Send to LaunchBar (Command-Shift-F1): This command is accessible from the Services menu of other applications, allowing you to send one or more files that are currently selected in that application to LaunchBar.Drop Finder Selection (Command-D): Simulates a “drag and drop” of the current Finder selection onto LaunchBar.Get Finder Selection (Command-G): Transfers the current Finder selection to LaunchBar.LaunchBar provides a set of commands allowing you to perform drag and drop operations using the keyboard instead of the mouse: If you drag onto the Action menu icon (at the right end of the LaunchBar window), the menu for choosing the desired action will pop up regardless of the configured default action. This action will be performed when you drag items onto LaunchBar without pressing any modifier keys. Alternatively you can press the following modifier key combinations during the drag: Modifierįor different kinds of dragging destinations (applications, folders, …) a default action can be configured in the Advanced pane of LaunchBar Preferences. Modifier Keysīy default, when you drag an item onto the bar, LaunchBar pops up a menu where you can choose the desired action for the dragged item. Start dragging the file, press Command-Space to activate LaunchBar, enter TED to select TextEdit, and finally drop the file onto the bar. ![]() Say you want to open an HTML file with TextEdit. Note that you can enter an abbreviation to select the desired destination even during the drag. You can drag items onto the LaunchBar window, allowing you to open files or URLs with a specific application or to perform various file operations such as moving or copying. ![]()
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