Once up front in iC, you have to grab the mouse just to select an item and start navigating, except, the status bar info is not even following your selection ! It follows the pointer ! There’s nothing you can do from the keyboard ! Everything needs to be done with the mouse and contextual menus. Status bar follows selection on Dock and shows Hotkey, wow. Once done, hit Enter and you’re back in the dock. I hit Enter and I can change name, Default app, select New Original, add notes, change Hotkey, deactivate hotkey (very useful sometimes), navigate from that window to next item’s window which follows on the dock, even going to next layer. Once up front, in DT I just hit an arrow key and I can instantly navigate L & R to item I want to select in that layer.I assigned a hotkey to show/hide but I usually need to hit it twice. No one keystroke to put iCollections up front.I’m hoping to be wrong so please correct me if that’s the case. This is a short list of what I cannot do with iCollections and therefore would not consider it an excellent replacement for DT. I try to do everything from the keyboard and only touch the mouse when I need to. So, I’m thinking iCollections is a great bet for the longhaul, because the devs are responsive. But iCollections DOES display custom icons - making it so much easier to recognize various websites that are part of my daily workflow. (I should add, though, that Dragthing does NOT accept custom icons I’ve applied to certain website URLs i’ve dragged into it. Not so in iCollections, it uses the default application icon, disrespecting my cusom icon. With Dragthing, if the icon is changeable in Mac’s Finder, then if I drag that app into Dragthing, the new custom icon i assigned gets used by Dragthing. (4) I use a ton of custom icons, for not just special folders, but also to replace the ugly icons of various applications. (It does not appear to be a private link, but rather appears in the open on their feature documentation pages. He even gave me a link to the beta grid-mode. *BUT AGAIN HERE, they said they are already in beta on their new “Grid Mode” which will allow that very thing, so that’s two things already they’ve improved for next release. iCollections auto-wraps, preventing blank spaces. (3) Dragthing allows for “blank spaces” (blank cells) where there are no icons. iCollections enables you to make the palette label at the top “hidden”, but apparently it holds that space, preventing nudging upwards to snap to top. (2) Dragthing allowed me to snap the vertical panel to the very top of my screen. THEY SAID THAT IS BEING HANDLED IN NEW VERSION, and will even enable overlapping of icons. (1) But Dragthing allowed for greater density of icons, whereas iCollections added more horizontal and vertical padding between items. I use a 2-display setup, a LEFT DISPLAY and RIGHT DISPLAY, and I have used Dragthing as a 2-icon wide vertical stripe that I place at the left edge of my RIGHT DISPLAY, with a wide mix of apps, folders, system prefs, etc. That gave me a good feeling, that it’s an app that will continue to be developed going forward.Įxamples of things I commented/asked about: I noticed a few things right out the gate that were not as flexible as Dragthing - but then I sent a side-by-side screenshot to the devs just now, with some Questions, and they responded in under 2 minutes, describing line-item changes that were already in the works on their upcoming version. I clicked yes, and it did a pretty good job of displaying it instantly. Andy I just discovered iCollections as well, via … I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it prompted me automatically “Do you want to import your Dragthing collection to iCollections?”.
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