On 4/13/07 8:50 PM, Fred J. Heumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just have the sense that it must have been easier to put it in the > software itself than to create another Sys Pref pane or two...
They did not need to create another System Preferences pane. One already existed. Prior to Panther, the default e-mail and web browser settings could be found and changed in the pane called Internet. This was also where you changed .Mac settings. They removed that functionality in Panther and renamed the pane .Mac. So what would've "been easier" for everyone is if they would've just let it be. Since that change occurred, the question of "how do I change my default web browser/e-mail program" has cropped up far more often on the OS X mailing lists I frequent. So Apple did no favors to its customers. > Most folks will never venture beyond the built-in apps for browsing and > email...those are probably the two most used apps by consumers, and they like > having them right there. If most folks never venture beyond Mail and Safari then those folks have no need to change their default browser/mail preferences. And if they never use them, they couldn't possibly "like having them right there." Thus there's no point in putting them there. -- Eddie Hargreaves -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
