KENBOTWINICK  And this is why I now just use Size Up and Zooom/2 for my window resizing needs... ;)

MercuryMover also looked kind of neat, but not neat enough to get my money.

And I never even use the mini-player on the Mac. I use Synergy to control iTunes. The only place I use the mini-player is at work on Windows to easily control the volume of my Nicecast stream from my Mac.  
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KENBOTWINICK  @STAR-AFFINITY

I agree that even when the button was supposed to maximize iTunes, it didn't actually do a full correct Zoom. I personally use SizeUp or Zooom/2 to maximize my windows anyway. To me a keyboard shortcut is always much faster and easier than having to take my hands off the keyboard, use the mouse, and hunt out a tiny, tiny little button.

I just never understood the ridiculous backlash against fixing it. Was Command-Shift-M REALLY that hard to do? I'm pretty sure that for all Windows users the keyboard shortcut or menu pick has always been the only way to get the mini player. I believe the Windows Full Screen button in the title of the window actually makes iTunes full screen. (I use it at work on Windows, but haven't verified the behavior recently.)

(Oh, and I agree with you about your suggestion of using Option-Green button).

Anyways, out of all the thousands and thousands of apps available, which ones don't use the green button to Zoom the window? The only other one that immediately comes to mind is Safari, where it doesn't make sense to zoom to full width of screen. It makes more sense to zoom Safari the full height of the screen based on the width you have selected. But the zoom button still zooms the window bigger, even if not full screen.

Regardless of the small number of examples you might be able to come up with, they're the exceptions and not the rule. The standard is that the green Zoom button is supposed to do the same thing as the Window Zoom menu pick and that is supposed to maximize the window to a larger size…

And not to get all philosophical, but the reason it's so difficult to make changes to fix bigger problems in the world is because we always have to cater to emotional (and frequently irrational) desires to cling to the way things have always been done instead of being able to use rational logic to determine the best course of action for the future… I'm surprised people didn't hold town hall meetings about this green zoom button and bring pictures of Steve Jobs with a Hitler mustache and accuse him of wanting to euthanize Gramma…

:-P  
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KENBOTWINICK  Don't you mean "breaking it again", since no other green MAXIMIZE button in any other program makes the window SMALLER. They're breaking their own UI Guidelines. The MAXIMIZE button should MAXIMIZE the window. If anything would make sense at all, it would be using the yellow MINIMIZE button to MINIMIZE the window to the MINI controller. Logic and rationality lose again.  
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KENBOTWINICK  To clarify my question, I'd like to pan the entire map, without moving the location of the center image from the center of the map...  
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KENBOTWINICK  Hi,

Thanks for the tip about dragging, but I don't see it... I mean dragging entire map around when it doesn't fit in window. I'm not referring to being able to reposition the central image. Can you clarify?

Thanks. :)  
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KENBOTWINICK  What boggles my mind is that this one maximize button on this one window in this one app always worked differently than every other maximize button in every other window in every other app. The way it used to work was the bug. It works correctly now...  
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KENBOTWINICK  I'm so tired of people complaining about this mini-player "bug". What is truly "mad stupid" is that this aberration ever existed in the first place! In NO other program does clicking the MAXIMIZE button cause the window to turn into a minimized version! The MAXIMIZE button should MAXIMIZE the window. I'm GLAD they finally FIXED the bug that was there all these years. It is now working the way it was ALWAYS SUPPOSED to work; consistently like every other window in every other program.

Good riddance!  
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KENBOTWINICK  This looks like a very good start. I currently use iMindMap (a java app) but would prefer something Mac native so that I can have QuickLook previews, native open/save dialogs so I can use Default Folder, etc. This looks like it could be an iMindMap killer for me in the future. But I think it needs more features. Like: The ability to place floating text/graphics that aren't tied to a branch, the ability to draw a branch free hand, the ability to control the thickness of branches, the addition of clouds, the ability for file links to be smarter (not absolute paths), the ability to hold down space to drag the map around inside the window, etc. And it did crash on me once during quick testing. And the QuickLook preview dimensions seemed scrunched up...

But again, I think it's a great start. Very good functionality without being overly complex like Novamind. I'm really looking forward to 1.5 or 2.0. But I'll stick with iMindMap for the immediate future.

Oh, and GREAT art collection too. Much nicer than iMindMap's or Novamind's.  
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