Overflow - in an attempt to relieve the Dock
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Over time, many owners of devices builds up a lot of useful applications. Access to them, we have through the Launchpad or "dock." Those that are used less frequently, and remain in the ground, and those that often - move to the dock. But as you know, doc away "is not elastic," and the number of applications is increasing, which makes Quick Launch menu in a bunch of mala. Get rid of the loaded dock and sort applications help utility Overflow.
When the application starts, its icon in the Dock and settles, but its display can be turned off if desired and access customize hotkey (default is Command + Space), which are involved to launch Spotlight, that very illogical.
Initially, the app shows all that is located in your dock, but none of the programs will not start without giving an error and does not recommend adding the application again. An obvious flaw, but not critical. We can remove the standard tabs and make your own. For example, you can sort the programs into groups: office, multimedia, etc. But in the course of the addition of I collided with another minor issues: Applications that have a space in the title are displayed incorrectly. Available in Microsoft Lync me Overflow called "Microsoft% 20Lync". Again, it is not critical, but not aesthetically pleasing. This bug is treated only by reinstalling the application.
In addition to the convenience of sorting applications, the developers have taken care of the appearance of the application. Standard topic is very pretty, but if you are, for example, you want to paint the window by the color set wallpaper, and in store these settings for you. While others not so much: standard like on startup and for individual elements of the display of icons in the window.
In addition to programs, the application can add files and folders. For example, you can create a category of "Photo" and place there the images that you use most frequently. Unfortunately, when you add a folder and its opening gets a new window in the Finder with the content inside it. No sublevels or subfolders application does not support.
An interesting feature is the opening of several programs from one category at a time. For example, you come to work, Overflow is started, moved to the "Jobs" and opened all the applications in this group. Undeniably convenient. Another thing - implementation. She again let us down. To open all the programs in the category you need to move the cursor over it and clicking the right mouse button, select the menu item "Open All Items". Aim at groups menu, and then in the context menu, uncomfortable. One could add a separate button for this purpose in each of the categories.
Another nice feature - the number of labels that can be added. Because Overflow window is stretched to any size, in one group of applications you can add quite a lot. But again there are problems with the implementation of the already grown fond to me. If I do not want to stretch the window, but the application is no longer placed in a category, you can not use scrolling. In other words, adding to the 30 standard Windows applications, a good half is hidden from me until I drag a window. And it would be for me to scroll down to the desired application and launch it in such a way.Present and sorting items by Drag and Drop, which simplifies the process of adding a new label in its place. But all the spoils again realization. You can drag the icon to an empty space, but it can not be reversed, because Drag and drop the application simply be deleted.
The result is that the developers of the functions work really everything, but their implementation is absolute worthless. I was looking for something for the organization of their applications, and found only hemorrhoids. Forgive the flaws, you can control in the event that the application would be distributed free of charge. But no, the developers ask for it almost 15 dollars or 479 rubles in the Mac App Store, it's too much. The site can be downloaded for free Overflow, but I do not know whether this version of the restrictions on the period of use. And I do not want to know. It has already gone into the basket.
Once again, we can see that the standard tools of OS X is quite possible to do so, classifying applications into folders and add them to the dock.
Download Overflow is, if someone else is interesting, it is possible to website Developer (free) or Mac App Store for 479 rubles.