"Fix Safari Downloads Window on Leopard Spaces": comment by Mark Rowe

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:48:15 PST

Have you filed a bug report on this issue with Apple? http://bugreporter.apple.com/ is your friend :-)

"Fix Safari Downloads Window on Leopard Spaces": comment by Thomas Aylott

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:57:47 PDT

When you go to create a new Safari window and the Downloads panel is still hidden, you’ll have to close the Downloads panel and reopen it to be visible again.

"Fix Safari Downloads Window on Leopard Spaces" by admin

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:43:00 PDT

The one thing that really bothers be about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (sofar) is that Spaces doesn’t seem to handle certain windows “properly”

For instance, the Safari Downloads window.

Ideally, I want the Safari Downloads window to be viewable on all Spaces at all times. But I don’t want all Safari windows to always be on all spaces.

Here’s the trick: Change the window to be a utility panel instead.

_{This assumes you have Xcode installed}

Navigate to /Applications
Right click on Safari
Choose Show Package Contents
Navigate to Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
- Or whatever language you use
Open Downloads.nib in Interface Builder
Select the #Window# icon
Open the Info Panel
Select the Identity tab of the Info Panel
Change the Class to NSPanel
Select the Attributes tab of the Info Panel
Check the Style Utility
Save the Downloads.nib file
Quit & Relaunch Safari

Your Downloads Window should now be visible in all Spaces as long as you have a Safari window open in that space.

Enjoy!

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"Fix Safari Downloads Window on Leopard Spaces": comment by Mark Rowe

"Fix Safari Downloads Window on Leopard Spaces": comment by Thomas Aylott

"Fix Safari Downloads Window on Leopard Spaces" by admin