Mac OS X 'Leopard'-related Discussion


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Do you mean full Acrobat or just the reader?

iTunes still has old-style traffic lights.

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Of course it does. It isn't being drawn like all the other windows are. Try making iTunes the non-active window, the toolbar doesn't go white like every other app in Leopard does.

Leopard is all starting to come together quite well for me now.

Part of the problems I was having seemed to have been related to my external 320GB drive performing HORRENDOUSLY slowly on either its FAT32 or HFS+ partition. Strangely, removing it and connecting it to another USB port on my Mac Mini seems to have cured it and it now flies along.. so Time Machine has suddenly become a lot less intrusive and the overall performance of the OS has sweetened up considerably.

In fact I can only mirror what some people have said about Leopard being considerably faster than Tiger was. Even things I didn't think that could be improved (like UI speed dragging windows around, and more specifically scrolling through big pages) simply because I have an entry level Mac trying to drive a 1600x1200 display - but it seems to be coping very well now :)

There likely won't be any official way to theme leopard for awhile, I'm working on it, I'm trying to convert what I have already to vector based graphics for whenever apple does flip the resolution independence switch. Knowing Unsanity, there likely won't be a shapeshifter for some time. :(

Basically a waste of time. There is no Checkbox.pdf or Scroll Bar.pdf file located somewhere in AquaUI.bundle. The better part of the Aqua resources are generated by actual code, not by image files.

Of course it does. It isn't being drawn like all the other windows are. Try making iTunes the non-active window, the toolbar doesn't go white like every other app in Leopard does.

I really don't understand why Apple keeps iTunes use it's own Aqua resources instead of just the system defaults.

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I really don't understand why Apple keeps iTunes use it's own Aqua resources instead of just the system defaults.

Maybe because the Windows version is somewhat similar to the Mac version and they keep these extra files just for when they compile the Windows version ? I know there are ways to compile only what you need, but maybe they don't care... I'm sure iTunes would be much faster if they removed all these files and used the real Aqua style.

Anyone know how to disable the icon preview in Finder and on the desktop? I wish to keep Coverflow option in Finder but if you keep images and PDFs on the desktop or you view in icon mode in Finder, Leopard replaces the default icon of the file with a small image (preview) of it. This can slow down my system considerably. There's no Finder option. I've gone through Apple documentation on-line and I've looked at the Finder.plist file for any hints but nothing.

Well guys its odd but after digging around for a good 10min seems my install has no Archive Utility..its odd :/

Yea like Giga said, in Tiger it was called BOMArchiver, try searching for that.

Basically a waste of time. There is no Checkbox.pdf or Scroll Bar.pdf file located somewhere in AquaUI.bundle. The better part of the Aqua resources are generated by actual code, not by image files.

Meh, considering I've never made vector based graphics its not a waste, more like a new skill. I'm sure there will be a way to skin the GUI without using code ..eventually.

Maybe because the Windows version is somewhat similar to the Mac version and they keep these extra files just for when they compile the Windows version ? I know there are ways to compile only what you need, but maybe they don't care... I'm sure iTunes would be much faster if they removed all these files and used the real Aqua style.

Apple offers Windows versions of Safari and QuickTime too, but those are Cacoa and use the default elements.

Meh, considering I've never made vector based graphics its not a waste, more like a new skill. I'm sure there will be a way to skin the GUI without using code ..eventually.

That's a big leap of faith. ;)

Anyone know how to disable the icon preview in Finder and on the desktop? I wish to keep Coverflow option in Finder but if you keep images and PDFs on the desktop or you view in icon mode in Finder, Leopard replaces the default icon of the file with a small image (preview) of it. This can slow down my system considerably. There's no Finder option. I've gone through Apple documentation on-line and I've looked at the Finder.plist file for any hints but nothing.

Make the Finder the active application > View > Show View Options > Uncheck the "Show icon preview" box > Hit the "Use as Defaults" button.

It seems pretty straightforward to me.

Make the Finder the active application > View > Show View Options > Uncheck the "Show icon preview" box > Hit the "Use as Defaults" button.

It seems pretty straightforward to me.

I had forgotten about that option. I did set it up when I installed my system, but, I didn't hit the Defaults. Now it works. Thanks!

Basically a waste of time. There is no Checkbox.pdf or Scroll Bar.pdf file located somewhere in AquaUI.bundle. The better part of the Aqua resources are generated by actual code, not by image files.

I really don't understand why Apple keeps iTunes use it's own Aqua resources instead of just the system defaults.

Maybe because the Windows version is somewhat similar to the Mac version and they keep these extra files just for when they compile the Windows version ? I know there are ways to compile only what you need, but maybe they don't care... I'm sure iTunes would be much faster if they removed all these files and used the real Aqua style.

i think they same way. honestly it amazes me how one of apple biggest peices of software isn't like the rest of the OS.

I had forgotten about that option. I did set it up when I installed my system, but, I didn't hit the Defaults. Now it works. Thanks!

Great. Did you actually noticed a difference in performance? It doesn't seem to affect speed on my Mac.

I dont know if anyone can verify this, but I was testing out the newest macbooks at the apple store today (yes, the ones with the X3100 graphics), and I told myself "dang these things are slow with Leopard". Was it just perception or what? for instance, dock "fluidity" was hardly there (although when i changed to side dock it was ok) and cover flow was a bit slow as well. (although I have to admit, spotlight is wicked fast).

GRRRR!!! This is getting on my nerves. I've got an Intel iMac and it continually locks up on me :( I hope they issue a fix for this soon.

They did a few days ago with iMac Update 1.3.

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ima...e13leopard.html

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ima...ate12tiger.html

It's strange though my iMac hasn't locked up once.

Never mind, I read the last sentence of the article you linked to. :pinch: Sucks man, hopefully they do fix it soon. :/

^ So you haven't had any problems? I wonder if maybe I'm having another issue that isn't related.

I get the lock up when the screen saver starts (I've disabled it) and the other time is when I start using Time Machine. Maybe a Core Animation problem? I guess that would be related to the video card drivers :p

Thinking out loud, sort of haha

While I've read that many people have new iMacs (the aluminium ones) locking up all the time my 2.8 GHz model didn't once. So far it's been working great, even when the screen saver comes up!

It certainly makes me feel special. :laugh:

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