I don't want to resort to name-calling, but essentially, I agree. Laptop users have apparently been put on the back burner in X development. The Energy Saver has no separate settings for battery power, power drains rapidly compared to 9.x, and the lack of a real location manager makes the PowerBook difficult to use unless the only way you ever connect is to the internet by phone.
X 10.1 is very tempting to use, and has much usability (once you figure out how to substitute for the lack of tabbed folders and other eliminated conveniences), but I am now typing in MacOS 9.2.1 . (sigh) I hope Apple rapidly adds features by looking at what is missing, comapred to 9.x On 10/1/01 1:05 AM, "Harry (lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 9/30/01 3:23 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Apple have dropped Location Manager from OS X: > > Idiots! > >> it doesn't work in OS X native or in Classic. > > Morons! > >> There is a very primitive "Location" aspect to the Network System >> Pref, but System Prefs are still not scriptable in OS 10.1, and may never be. > > Complete idiots - I'm referring in the above, and the following expletives > to the morons from the development team that made this decisions. Location > manager is the single most important utility for any professional with a > laptop, and the lack of support shows, once again, Apple's lack of user > testing. > > Idiots! As impressed as I am currently with 10.1, if there won't be any > location manager support (which really is just a simple and primitive > support for scriptable system preferences, as it was elegantly implemneted > under OS 9), I'll have to diss the OS for it. > > Damn! What are they thinking? Here's hoping that as the NeXT influence > fades, such essential tools will resurface, or be reintroduced by third > parties. > > Harry > > > --- > http://www.zinkdifferent.com > > "Virtue does not come from money, but rather from virtue comes money, > and all things good to man" -Socrates > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
