Comments on: DesktopCoral

By: Samer

Samer — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:21:26 +0000

Awesome screenshot Joshua, thanks for sharing!
I also love your desktop wallpaper. Can you share the source?
Check out this post: http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/11/my-favorite-lone-tree-and-sky-wallpaper-images/

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:54:42 +0000

Absolutely awesome tool which I’ve used to create a second taskbar in Windows 7 (with RocketDock and Rainmeter too).

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/4923/desktop021209.png

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:21:47 +0000

I usually do not leave comments, but I spent more than hour on your site since it suits me – and DesktopCoral is my favorite article. Great post! Thanks.

Michael

By: DesktopCoral Review & Download Link | freewaregenius.com

DesktopCoral Review & Download Link | freewaregenius.com — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:33:55 +0000

[...] DesktopCoral Review & Download Link | freewaregenius.com DesktopCoral is a program that can reserve a part of the edge of your screen (on any of the 4 sides) such as to prevent applications and windows from maximizing over the reserved area. This allows the user to place some objects in the reserved space that will be visible at all times (and will not be maximized over by other windows). [...]

By: Thunder7

Thunder7 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:59:07 +0000

I too could use something like this myself.
I already have a lot of stuff in “MY Documents” that i keep as Need to know now!.

I keep other stuff on my Desktop as in “NEED TO KNOW NOW!” This is a awesome app, but as you said it need work.

I have friend working on a cool program now.
I cam it a “Heads Up Display” He calls it “Side Slide.” http://www.northglide.com/sideslide.html
Great Guy Great Program.

I hope the programmer of ‘Desktop Coral’is as willing to work on making changes as Side Slides Programmer was.

I think it makes for a better program.

By: Apple Blog » Blog Archive » Reserve Space from Maximized Windows with DesktopCoral

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:55:34 +0000

[...] is donationware, Windows only, requires a free license key. DesktopCoral [DonationCoder via FreewareGenius] Nice little program to try [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:58:47 +0000

Yeah, I was thinking about using this as a way to prohibit windows expanding but it will only work for one rectangular area. What I’d really like is a little desktop space on the top, bottom and right edge and a larger area on the left edge where a few desktop icons live. This is because I run SideSlide and if windows are too close to the edge the user accidentally invokes the SideSlide menu too often. It’s been a while since I’ve poked through the snacks at DonationCoder. Maybe there is something which will do what I want.

By: DesktopCoral 1.00.07… reserva parte de tu pantalla cuando tengas las ventanas de Windows maximizadas :

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:26:01 +0000

[...] lados) para impedir que las aplicaciones y ventanas ocupen este lugar cunado están maximizadas, simplemente hay que ejecutar la aplicación y definir el área reservada para las ventanas cuando están [...]

By: Reserve Space from Maximized Windows with DesktopCoral [Featured Windows Download] · TechBlogger

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:51:33 +0000

[...] Windows only: With the increasing popularity of sidebar gadgets/widgets, dock applications like RocketDock and ObjectDock, and other desktop integration applications like Samurize, a maximized window can cover a lot more than you want it to. Donationware application DesktopCoral reserves desktop space and prevents maximized applications from covering your reserved screen real estate. Just run the app and define the area you want restricted from maximized apps. From now on, any maximized window will stay off your reserved screen area, letting you go big with apps without covering the desktop space you want access to. DesktopCoral is donationware, Windows only, requires a free license key. DesktopCoral [DonationCoder via FreewareGenius] [...]

By: Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:38:53 +0000

Proper grammar is always nice, too.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:23:30 +0000

The improvement that I’d most like to see: since it’s based on having a “corral”, or fenced off area, on your desktop, having nothing to do with a marine invertebrate, it always kills me that they didn’t get the spelling right.

I too thought this was a nifty idea when I came across it while fiddling with Samurize, but I never thought of a good use for it, other than in conjunction with Samurize. Most of the better versions of apps that you want to be able to see constantly or access quickly can be always-on-top or autohiding (docks, stickies), or docked (Pidgin has its own docking capability, why wouldn’t you just use that?)

By: Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:23:12 +0000

I’d love to find something similar but it would limit the desktop area used when an app launches. IOW, a rectangular area base on two opposite points would define the portion of the desktop into which an app can launch. Some apps launch full-screen regardless of the “normal window” setting in their shortcut. The user would be able to manually enable fullscreen, I’m just talking about size during launch.

It would also be nice to force the size. The recent Acrobat Reader, for example, will sometimes resize based on the PDF loaded.