Michelle, >And the Dock is not a piece of junk; it's one of the best UI features >ever to appear.
Well I have to disagree with you here. I hate the Dock myself, find it cluttered and difficult to manage. Perhaps this is partially due to OSX (Jaguar) being installed on my iBook with its smallish 12" screen, but when I tried the "hide automatically" to get the durn thing out of the way it still interferes! If you mouse over the side (or bottom) where you put the Dock, you run into problems when working with windows that overlap the area where the invisible Dock lives. Try to do something and the Dock pops up under your mouse, obscuring the window and keeping you from doing whatever it was you were trying to do. Argh! Personally I've used the Apple Menu with BeHierarchic for years to navigate my multiple volumes/hds, launch apps etc. and it doesn't occupy space used by windows and other things you are working on - the menubar is out of bounds as usable screen real-estate - as it should be. The Dock, on the other hand... I also prefer the text names of apps and documents to the somewhat obscure icons that get stuffed into the Dock. I keep having to mouse over them to find the app I'm trying to launch. Waste of time. And on the small iBook screen it is difficult to tell if an App is running or not with those tiny little triangles. Bah, humbug! I have been playing with OSX for a while - to try and get familiar with it - though I still use OS9.1 on my 7600/G3 as my main work machine. This may change sigh, as I've just received delivery of a new G4 Dual 1.25GHz monster. I'll welcome the speed for use with my main app - Photoshop - but I will centainly install OS9x on its own boot partition and probably still rely on it for some things. In fact the thing that prompted me to anticipate the upgrade (financial problems notwhithstanding) was the alarming news that OS9 booting will no longer be supported in new Macs after the current models. Eek. Decision made - pronto! I bet Uncle Steve has a good quarter. Don't think I'm the only one rushing out to buy the last OS9 bootable Macs. As a note of curiosity, the only kernel panic I have seen was immediatly after installing the Jaguar upgrade - next reboot showed me what a kernel panic looks like (g). But that was the only one so far. As someone who doesn't know diddle about programing but likes to feel in control and able to troubleshoot problems I also rather resent all the years' experience learning about Mac OS suddenly becoming totally irrelevant. Though some things changed a bit from one generation of Mac OS to another most of the fundamentals still applied. What? Now I gotta learn Unix if I want to maintain a modicum of control and have a clue what the bloody OS is up to? Cheers, Nina ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
