Mac OS X 'Leopard'-related Discussion


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With regards Front Row, I actually prefer the new appearence of it especially when browsing music (and the displaying of cover art) - I also like that they sort of sped it up, rather than concentrating more on the animations which just were not that important anyway.

Yeah it sucks we lost the cool transition into Frontrow but i'd take functionality over that silly little bit of eye candy any day.

Honestly, Leopard runs better than Tiger, I think people will agree with me. I find applications launch almost instantly. Unfortunately many people seem to have a hard time with Leopard. They seem to have loads of problems like crashes, kernel panics and blue screens. These will be polished as time goes on.

After a few days of using Leopard, I've gathered some thoughts. Instead of writing about the big features we've all read about, I'll cover some details. The fact that I'm impressed goes without saying.

The transparent menubar is elegant and much more subtle than in Tiger. The Dock is gorgeous. I know about its flaws and I just don't care. It's that pretty. Every single icon looks better in Leopard's Dock than in Tiger's. The borderless windows are pure UI genius. Lots of refinements everywhere, UI-wise.

For the first time I prefer the Graphite theme to Aqua. But I still regret Leopard didn't receive the complete iTunes 7 treatment (scrollbars, etc.).

Toast 8 and Popcorn 3 crash while launching. Any workarounds?

Some keyboard shortcuts don't work properly in Fireworks CS3 (haven't tried other CS3 apps yet). In how many years is Adobe releasing a patch?

The iCal widget (used to be Calendar) can now display iCal events.

The Expos? icon is hideous.

While I'm sure Mac to Mac networking works like a charm, Windows networking now sucks even more. I must now manually enter my mom's PC's IP address to connect. And once I connect to a share, it works in read-only mode. If anyone knows how to make it writable, please, please let me know!

iChat can be set up to display the Jabber contact list instead the AIM contact list after clicking on its icon in the Dock. That will save me like 2 million key presses a month.

How did we survive without Quick Look? It's the biggest convenience since Expos?.

Installing Windows drivers in Boot Camp required inserting the DVD, clicking one button and waiting for the thing to restart. Watch and learn, PC vendors.

I want my Finder windows big so I can use Cover Flow. However, whenever I open a newly created folder, its window has the default small size. Is there a way to make all Finder windows large by default?

The license agreement window that pops up while mounting disk images with (some) applications has the Panther logo in the background. Or is Time Machine taking me back to 2003?

To sum it up, the last time I felt that happy about a piece of software was when I played "The Longest Journey". The overall enjoyment to annoyance ratio in Leopard is about 1000 to 1. Thank you, Apple!

Edited by Koyder

While poking around in application resources I found out Archive Utility has a preference pane. Go to: /System/Library/CoreServices/Archive Utility.app/Contents/Resources/Archives.prefPane

Install that and then you will be able to control how Archive Utility handles archives.

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While poking around in application resources I found out Archive Utility has a preference pane. Go to: /System/Library/CoreServices/Archive Utility.app/Contents/Resources/Archives.prefPane

Install that and then you will be able to control how Archive Utility handles archives.

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Wow, thanks for that! Another option is just to start Archive Utility and go to prefs to change whatever settings you want.

Edited by giga
While poking around in application resources I found out Archive Utility has a preference pane. Go to: /System/Library/CoreServices/Archive Utility.app/Contents/Resources/Archives.prefPane

Install that and then you will be able to control how Archive Utility handles archives.

I came across that same file few hours ago, but I was a bit afraid to actually install it. :laugh:

Edited by .Neo
I came across that same file few hours ago, but I was a bit afraid to actually install it. :laugh:

You guys don't have to install the prefpane, just open the archive utility app and goto preferences in that, same thing.

While poking around in application resources I found out Archive Utility has a preference pane. Go to: /System/Library/CoreServices/Archive Utility.app/Contents/Resources/Archives.prefPane

Install that and then you will be able to control how Archive Utility handles archives.

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Wow - thanks for that tip (Y)

I just picked up the iomega MiniMax 500GB HD a few hours ago. It doubles as a FireWire and USB2 hub as well. So after Time Machine is done backing up my entire system, I'm going to do a clean install just to see what all the fuss is about :p.

I just picked up the iomega MiniMax 500GB HD a few hours ago. It doubles as a FireWire and USB2 hub as well. So after Time Machine is done backing up my entire system, I'm going to do a clean install just to see what all the fuss is about :p.

I'm thinking to do that too. I have my Time Machine backup so I think I'll do a clean install.

While poking around in application resources I found out Archive Utility has a preference pane. Go to: /System/Library/CoreServices/Archive Utility.app/Contents/Resources/Archives.prefPane

Install that and then you will be able to control how Archive Utility handles archives.

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Yea, good find.

Anyone know what the difference is between compressed archive, regular archive & Zip archive in the 'Use archive format:' option?

You guys don't have to install the prefpane, just open the archive utility app and goto preferences in that, same thing.

What's the apps actual name? I can't seem to find it.

I'm thinking to do that too. I have my Time Machine backup so I think I'll do a clean install.

That's exactly what I did. At first I had done an Upgrade but had some bugs and visual glitches/slowness. I did the initial TM backup and then did an Erase & Install. It now runs beautifully with no bugs. It actualy runs faster than Tiger ever did.

Edited by QuarterSwede

Does anyone know what "Home Sync" is?

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Go to;

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras

there are lots of Menu Extras which don't appear by default.

The Scripts Menu still has old-style folders too.

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Edited by kraized

Is there anyway to change the display DPI in Leopard? I really want to use 120 DPI instead of 72 (I think that's the default).

I like to use my computer at a distance and everything is just too small. In Windows I can adjust the display DPI to make everything larger, but there's no way to do this in OS X??

And where is the resolution independence I heard that's supposed in Leopard?

Does anyone know what "Home Sync" is?

Home Sync was present in Tiger as well. I believe it may be for a pulled feature called "Home on iPod" where you could sync your Home directory to your iPod, plug your iPod into another Mac and then have your Home directory on that Mac.

Home Sync was present in Tiger as well. I believe it may be for a pulled feature called "Home on iPod" where you could sync your Home directory to your iPod, plug your iPod into another Mac and then have your Home directory on that Mac.

Home sync is a portable home directory. You need a OSX server for this.

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