Menufela, where are you?

Does this app work in Leopard?

Where can I find it? The link seems to be broken!

Could somebody please e-mail it to me?

Thank you

Amos Moses Griffin likes DesktopSweeper too and mentions it in his Quest For A More Mindful Mac , at The Apple Blog: “DesktopSweeper hides the ugly sores on your desktop. Hitting Cmd-Return (it can be changed) turns your screen into blissful, serene e…

I’m all for a PathFinder-like Finder replacement, where the Desktop-with-Background image simply has gone.

It’s surely nice to have a nice background image, but I want my mac to be 100% productive, so I can have time to find mindfulness away from it - so to speak.

Moreover, I wouldn’t want to go through 5 to 7 steps to reduce Desktop clutter, only to fill it with clutter again. Not good for my nerves.

Things are either filed in a temp folder, or copied into iClip, or filed properly at once.

I rarely see a desktop picture these days - and I really wonder why I’d have to, that’s all.

James - you make a good point. to some degree it’s an aesthetic feel i’m gunning for. the minimal look does make my writing easer and more enjoyable. does it make me more productive? i’d like to say so but it could be the illusion of productivity. i’m to close to it to tell. l0ne makes a great point about the desktop so…

l0ne - thank you for saying it so much better than i could have. indeed, if i had even thought of saying it.

I have an uncluttered desktop (I read it helps to speed up your Mac a bit), but I must admit I hardly ever see it in daily life. And I feel no need to: its limited functionality compared to what you can do with Finder Windows, Smart Folders, Quicksilver, Witch and Spotlight makes it, apart from eye candy, actually rather useless to me.

I wondered whether your quest for a mindful desktop wasn’t provoked by pretty much the same idea: apart from looking good, what pro use could one do with the desktop?

Nuestra vida ya es muy desordenada, por tanto… ¿porqué no conseguir que nuestros Macs se conviertan en auténticos remansos de paz, tratando de eliminar el desorden y buscando la efectividad minimalista? Personalmente suelo tener un escritorio bast…

I must be the only one.

Thanks for providing an excellent example of a customized Mac.

@Dan- You’re totally right I should have mentioned Alt-Tab. I use it as much as the Dock. Slipped my mind but nice call. And I can see how the magnifying Dock would be distracting but I like it. It feels like a little roller coaster. I’m stuck on it.

@Nick- I just started using Virtue Desktops. I’m still getting a hang of it. Easy enough to switch windows but it’s a new workflow to me and then binding apps and all that. I like it so far but we’ll see if it sticks. It’s so easy to slip back to what you feel comfortable with.

@Tina- I’ll be a slave to the genius that creates a DesktopSweeper or DeskShade for house cleaning.

@Richard - bummer but I appreciate the heads up. It would have been a bit jarring without your notice.

@l0ne- I agree. A little bit of discipline goes a long way and is probably the place to begin when decluttering. I always shoot myself in the foot though. I get exponentially messier the closer I get to my computer. I’ll check out Afloat for sure.

josue- many thanks.

Casey- you know it’s a good point. sometimes you need to let go of the need to be organized. it’s easy to let organization become an obession which defeates the emotional purpose a bit. disorder and chaos can be fun no?

I agree with everything in the above post. But I have found that there are times when I use my computer that I not only don’t mind the distracting menu-dock-expose-million windows usage, but I like it (or at the very least I have to use it, when file juggling.)

I started using megaZOOMER a few weeks ago and I’m hooked. When I want focus it’s CMD-Enter and the Dock and Menu disapper, the window becomes the Screen itself. When I want back into the busy cluttered mode, I just switch back.

It works flawlessly with all Cocoa apps.

http://www.ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html

Huh, may I also suggest Afloat? Disclaimer: I’m the developer.

It’s probably just me - and because I am Quicksilver’s slave… - but everytime there’s some article about how to use your mac more efficiently/cleanly/what-have-you, Quicksilver is smack dab in the middle. Can’t live without it.

The only thing I generally do differently from your post, is rather than hiding the apps, I use Virtual Desktops and put my work in different desktops to keep it separate. works well for me - but to each his own.

Within the switcher if you hold down Command and press H or Q you can command your apps to quit, hide, etc.