Mondriaan

The Mondriaan menu extra or 'menulet' for Mac OS X

Requirements

Unfortunately, Mondriaan is only supported on PowerPC Macs.

Introduction

Mondriaan is a menu extra or 'menulet'. It appears as an icon in the upper right corner of your Mac OS X menu bar (see above). On Mac OS 9, Mondriaan is a Control Strip Module and appears in your Control Strip.

The Mondriaan Control Strip Module for Mac OS 9

Mondriaan is included with URL Manager Pro, the professional bookmark manager for Mac OS X.

Mondriaan has five sets of bookmarks that you configure from the Favorites Window (use the Edit menu of URL Manager Pro). The five sets are: Favorites, Explore, Friends, FTPs and Daily.

Mondriaan is ideal when you need to access some web sites quickly and don't want to launch the URL Manager Pro application.

How to Use

Click on each of the four colors to get to each set of bookmarks in a menu. Clockwise, this is: Explore:white, Favorites:red, FTP Servers:blue, Friends:yellow. Use Control-Click on the Mondriaan icon to get access to the Daily set. The Daily command opens a set of bookmarks in multiple browser windows simultaneously.

Hold down the Option key to open the bookmark in a new browser window.

Hold down the Command key to open the bookmark in a new tab (Safari)*.

Hold down the Control key to copy the URL of the bookmark to the Clipboard.

*You must have the Safari Preferences 'Enable Tabbed Browsing' and 'Select new tabs as they are created' enabled.

Tip 1: You can rearrange menulets by Command-dragging them horizontally.
Tip 2: You can remove menulets just by Command-dragging them off your menu bar.

How to Install

Mac OS X*: just drag it to the upper right corner of your menu bar
Mac OS 9: just drag and drop it to the System Folder and restart your Mac

*You will also need to install MenuCracker. You can download MenuCracker here. MenuCracker is necessary to remove a blocking feature that Apple put in by default in Jaguar. In Jaguar, Apple blocks all third-party menulets.

Note: The path to the menulet is stored by Mac OS X in: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist

What's New in 1.5

Now again works on Mac OS X 10.2.8 up to Mac OS X 10.4.

What's New in 1.4

Camino 1.0a compatible.

What's New in 1.3

Tiger compatible.

What's New in 1.2

Supports the new location of the Favorites file, which is:

~/Library/Application Support/URL Manager Pro/

What's New in 1.1.1

Copy URL command is silent
Copy URL command obeys URL Manager Pro's Copy to Clipboard preference*

*Note: it will copy the URL plain, in brackets (< >) or in HTML anchor format according to this preference.

What's New in 1.1

Added support for Safari
Added support for modifier keys

What's New in 0.6

Support for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). However, you will also need to install MenuCracker. You can download MenuCracker here. MenuCracker is necessary to remove a blocking feature that Apple put in by default in Jaguar. In Jaguar, Apple blocks all third-party menulets.
You can now also put bookmarks of Web Pages in the FTP and Friends set. Mondriaan will check if the URL starts with http and, if so, open the bookmark in your web browser and not in your FTP or email client.

Note: Under Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) Mondriaan appears as a folder in the Finder.

What's New in 0.5

Mondriaan is 'smarter' now. It will open a bookmark in the browser that is currently running. Only when no browser is running, will it launch the default browser, as defined by your Mac OS X preference.
Fixed a bug in the color-ordering of the sets. This is now the final ordering: Explore (white), Favorites (red), FTPs (blue), Friends (yellow).