10.3 is really nice. All of the apps have added touches that I keep discovering. I really like the Finder improvements. Fast user switching is really nice too. And it all looks considerably more refined. It is already worth the price in dozens of ways, and I still have much to discover. In fact, I haven't even played with the application keyboard shortcut customization. I just looked at it, and it is very simple, and looks as though it is only for menu commands.
Below is text from the page in the help file:
Keyboard shortcuts allow you to quickly perform tasks by pressing keys on the keyboard. You can assign your own keyboard shortcuts to perform menu commands in any Mac OS X application or in the Finder. This may be useful if, for example, one of the "global" shortcuts, which works the same in most applications, is used by one application for a different purpose. In this case, you can assign it a different key combination.
1. Quit the application for which you want to add or change a keyboard shortcut. The shortcut will not be added if the application is running when you create the new shortcut.
2. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Keyboard & Mouse. Then click Keyboard Shortcuts.
3. Click the Add (+) button.
4. Choose an application from the Application pop-up menu. If you want to set the same key combination for a menu command that appears in many applications, choose All Applications. If you want to set a shortcut for the Finder, choose Finder at the top of the list. If the application you want to select does not appear in the list, choose Other and locate the application using the Open dialog.
5. Type the menu command for which you want to set a keyboard shortcut in the Menu Title field.
Tip: You must type the command exactly as it appears in the application menu, including ellipses and any other punctuation. (An ellipsis is a special character that looks like three periods. To type an ellipsis, you can use the Character Palette. For more information, search Mac Help for "Typing special characters." It may be difficult to tell whether the command is written in the menu with a real ellipsis or with three periods, so if one does not work, try the other.)
6. Click in the Keyboard Shortcut field and press the key combination that you want to assign to the menu command, and then click Add.
Tip: You cannot use each type of key (for example, a letter key) more than once in a key combination.
7. To remove a customized shortcut, click the Delete (-) button.
When you restart the application, the new shortcut appears in the application's menu.
If you want to go back to the default application shortcuts, click Restore Defaults. This returns all the keyboard shortcuts to their original key combinations.
On Dec 11, 2003, at 7:44 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
To those that have now had OS X 10.3 running for a while: how is it? Is it everything you had hoped? What are the drawbacks (if you can think of any)? Has anybody tried out the OS-level keyboard shortcut feature? How QuicKeys-like is that? Are you still required to use the command key in every single shortcut?
I know that that's a lot of questions... I'd welcome any response about this new OS version, though. Is it worth the upgrade?
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