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Hello Kost,
-Testing Preview 4 is ok with me. In Front Row as soon as I choose
it form the Applications menu it just doesn't work. after that I
couldn't get the Remote buddy menu again on screen so I had to Quit
and Open again! It toke me 2 days to discover that the Remote Buddy
menu appears again only if I keep pressing the menu button
continuously for 1-2 seconds. But still doesn't run.
That, however, would mean that the Front Row behaviour is active (not
for as long as you are in the menu, though, of course). Just to be
sure: what buttons did you use in Front Row? Front Row uses a
different mapping to navigate and some buttons simply don't produce
any visual feedback (i.e. the plus and minus buttons in the FR main
menu).
-The Finders modified icon I think is placed with the other
modified icons as a *.plist file inside my Home> Library>
Preferences folder. But my /System/..Core Service Finder icon is
still the original blue (and I don't intend to change it!). The
rest modified icons are displaced perfectly with Remote Buddy.
(tested on an G5 iMac isight, with CandyBar application for the
icons modification).
Candy Bar is probably modifying some option of the Dock then for the
Finder, but not the Finder itself. Remote Buddy, however, does poll
its icon information from the bundle of the respective application's
bundle. That's why you are seeing the original icon and not the
modified one.
Chances are, you don't see the modified icon in the OS X application
switcher (keep Option + Tab pressed to see it) either.
-It would be perfect if the Force Quit appeared after a failure of
Quit.. (Maybe with using something like a countdown timer for time
that an application makes in order to quit, and if the application
exists this time the force quit option could then be displayed.) I
really don't know much on programming, so I don't really know how
possible or applicable is that. I just believe that Force Quit for
a remote relating application is a bit overreacting although it
could be useful in some occasions. (No offense what so ever Mr.
Felix!)
Offering quit and force quit at the same time suits every possible
case IMHO. I.e. if you want to force quit an application, you don't
to watch a countdown first. And if you want to quit an application
cleanly, you can just do so as well.
I totally recommend Remote Buddy for every remote bundled Mac.
Thanks :-)
Felix
