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DRAGTHING DOUBLE CLICK TO PASTE CLIPPING MAC OSMy UMAX (*spit*) scanner won't work, and likely never will I use it seldom enough that it's probably a better use of my time and money to boot into Mac OS to use it, for now. Even Classic seems quicker, despite the fact that Mac OS is no longer included with Mac OS X.īut I still can't do everything in Mac OS X, even with Classic. Previously, clicking on UI elements would begin a delay that isn't there anymore. And for the first time ever, despite the problems that still exist, I am mostly comfortable.Īnd man, is Jaguar fast. It's all of these little touches that make a significant difference in whether I can comfortably use the OS on a daily basis. Cmd-c to copy the contents to the Clipboard. I still can't copy the content of a text clipping in the Finder. And you can get the old behavior of a single floating window ("Inspector") by holding down Option. If you select multiple items at once, you still get the single window with all the items, but you can at least now open many Get Info items for individual items, one at a time. Oops.īut while in the Finder, one of my old favorites is finally back: multiple Get Info windows. Similarly, I also now lose my selection box in the Finder in previous versions of Mac OS X, a selection box in a white space would appear grey. In Mac OS, that cursor would change from dark to light when it passed over something dark. The I-bar cursor still needs work I lose it on dark backgrounds. The arrow cursor has a better outline around it. The cursors are improved: the busy cursor has gone from an ugly rainbow pinwheel to a cute rainbow pinwheel (and how long before Steve makes it monochrome?). Gosh, complaining about font size sounds petty, but darnit, it is so much nicer to look at. The Finder has more options for changing the appearance of elements such as font size. Many of the UI elements, such as the Dock, are more subdued. Anti-aliasing made things harder to read, especially on LCDs, even with the unnaturally large fonts in the Finder many of the UI elements, including the aqua ones, often distracted the eye.īut in 10.2 (Jaguar), much has changed. DRAGTHING DOUBLE CLICK TO PASTE CLIPPING MAC OS XThe entire Mac OS X UI - while eminently "lickable," like no OS before it - was tiring to look at. This improved significantly in 10.1, but Mac OS v9.2 still seemed faster. In 10.0, performance was bad, even on G4s. In many places in the OS, you can't merely hit "return" in an active dialog to select the default button (if there is a default button at all), or "escape" to cancel.īut these problems were just the beginning. The file dialogs, stuck in a column view, are, in my opinion, a glaring design flaw. DRAGTHING DOUBLE CLICK TO PASTE CLIPPING WINDOWSMany still don't work right, including cmd+arrow keys to open and close arrows in Finder windows (half works: cmd+opt+arrow should open or close all hierarchical folders) and in dialogs with progress bars, such as file copying (doesn't work). Many things in the interface just didn't work at all, or as well as, they did in Mac OS. Mac OS X v10.0 was a disappointment to me, and many loyalists to Mac OS. I sit in front of this darned computer for most of my waking hours, and if I am not comfortable with it, then it's no good. I love Mac OS because of its ease of use and applications and interface and all of the little things. But it was different enough that I wasn't comfortable in it. But as Mac OS X started to become a reality, it became clear that this was not going to be Mac OS. I like Mac OS X v10.2 enough that it may soon become my primary OS.įrom the day Apple acquired NeXT, and Rhapsody was announced, I was excited about the prospect of a "modern operating system" (read: Unix) that would look and act like my beloved Mac OS. Mac OS - not Mac OS X, which is a different OS - in its various iterations has been my OS of choice for over 15 years, and I have not looked fondly on the day that streak ends. ![]()
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