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Hi Chris,
I understand things better now, I guess. From a programmer's point of
view the active application and the application in the foreground can
be two different things. The first actually has focus for mouse and
keyboard events (=> and usually also shows its name in the screen's
titlebar) and the latter is just the one that appears to be in front
of all other windows, but doesn't necessarily also have the focus for
mouse and keyboard events ;-)
However, you can do what you're looking for (or: almost .. not yet ..
as in: soon ;-).
The solution is, as often, a customized menu, in which you just drag
and drop the applications you want to start there or make them
active, if they are already running.
Only problem with RC1 is that it will rather browse the application's
bundle instead of launching the app. This is fixed in RC2.
Until then, although not equally simple, is to drag and drop the
Behaviours of the applications into the top level of a customized menu.
Best regards,
Felix