Hi

What is the limitation in the trial version ?

For me (trial version, macpro OS 16.6.8), after a few utilization of Deskovey, I have continuously the beach ball, and the only solution I have is to the restart...

Is there a limitation due to the trial version or a bug ?

Man, I love this thing! I just bought a rather expensive license for it. The more I use it the more I like it. The zoom button features alone are worth the price of admission. Too bad the dock switcher icon gizmo doesn't work in Lion - that is freakin' AWESOME for those of us who hate Spaces animations.

I have no hope for Unsanity. In the past, they often took several months to get updates out for new systems; but they should have had something for Lion by this time. Instead, they're busy soliciting donations so that maybe, just possibly, they'll consider upgrading. (But only if everyone re-buys all of their software first!)

So, if you want to windowshade, Deskovery is your only option. But it's not an option if you want to windowshade the way all of us have always understood that to work. As best as I can tell, Deskovery attempts to pull it all off by moving windows to their own little Deskovery world, and the magic takes place there. The problem, as many have noted, is that windowshaded windows are no longer readily accessible unless you click directly on the window.

This approach is pointless, particularly if you're using a keyboard. For instance, if I have two windows open, and I windowshade one and then switch to the other, I cannot use a keyboard shortcut to switch back to the shaded window and unshade it. The shaded window is no longer part of the program I'm working in; it's now a part of the Deskovery world.

I think the developers are trying this approach in order to avoid injecting some kind of system-wide program, in order to avoid accusations of having something like APE (for which Unsanity is always taking a beating). I applaud the logic but not the result. Frankly, APE never gave me any problems over the years.

At any rate, the best alternatives I've found to windowshading are either SizeUp (because it allows a nice bounce-back feature) or simply to minimize windows to the dock and then use various programs such as Hyperdock to relocate them.

Alas, everyone's presumably repeated pleas to Apple to reinstate windowshading have gone unheaded. They want to get pi$$y because people use APE; but they don't want to provide their own windowshading solution. Even Microsoft has windowshading programs available. Sigh.

A wonderful app, especially while on sale!

It window shades and enables my zoom buttons (that weren’t working previously) and will “show all” windows in a list using “Alt + Tab”.

The YouTube movies are pretty useless and the help abysmal.

I asked how to get the Windowshade Feature to work and was given the wrong answer that led me to the correct place. There is a bug I made a QT movie of and posted it on “Get Satisfaction” TWICE, and got no satisfaction as the movie wasn’t viewed . . . or at least the post wasn’t answered re: the movie.

Four stars out of five though since I like the app so much :-)

Why were my comments removed here? All I said was that when I access the Deskovery preferences, the app hangs and I have to force quit it. I can't configure it at all. I did go to the OS X preferences and deselect the double-click pref. I reinstalled, restarted, and still have the same issue. The app just doesn't work for me. Lion 10.7.2.

Thanks for the recent update. However I still have the previously reported and documented problem of double-clicking an email in Mail App and having it open and window shade when I just want it to open.

For some reason, it crashes on me all the time. I tried to find the email of the developer to send the crash reports, but there's none available on the official website. Also left a comment on the blog asking for a way to send the log and no response. I think I'll give up on Deskovery.