Comments on: Quick Tip: Window Title Bar Icon

By: hyearn

hyearn — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:14:10 +0000

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By: John Sawyer

John Sawyer — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:13:37 +0000

As the article states, the item being talked about here is the window’s “title bar”, not the “menu bar”–in OS X, windows don’t have a menu bar–you find that only in Windows and some other OSs. The menu bar in OS X is the thing at the top of the screen.

By: Jono

Jono — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:26:18 +0000

I knew about it in Finder, & stuff like if you dragged the icon off a search it created a Saved Search Folder etc. but didn’t know you could do that with Safari :)

By: zahadum

zahadum — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:21:14 +0000

not sure, but i recall the term ‘badge’ being used for the ‘proxy icon’.

By: droughtquake

droughtquake — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:58:59 +0000

You can also drag the Proxy Icon to move the document/folder to the trash, for example.

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:03:10 +0000

Just FYI – I think its called the “proxy icon”

By: Niclet

Niclet — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:41:23 +0000

Wow! thanks for these answers.

I found also that if I open a blank TextEdit window in text format (.txt) and I drag any file on it, it will show the long path of this file.

In fact, I think any text format (.txt) container will act the same : if I drag a file from the Finder to the (activated) Google search area on top-right of a Safari window, the path appears. Fascinating!

By: Schaller

Schaller — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:32:03 +0000

To follow up on Niclet’s question: Select the file in the Finder, Command-C copy it, then Command-V paste in the Terminal. It’s all the same thing.

By: Niclet

Niclet — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:40:29 +0000

Well, I think Schaller had just answer my question.

By: Niclet

Niclet — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:34:49 +0000

Thanks Nick,

BTW, speaking of paths, is there any way to easily get the (unix) path of a file?
(like ~/Documents/MyText.txt or ~/Library/AFolder/AnotherFolder/ThisFolder)
By clicking on it with a certain key combination, or by a kind of rapid action, and get it in the clipboard for example?
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I know I’m a bit out of topic but it’s still related.