Panther "Internet" System Preferences: Web preferences (such as Default Web Browser) are now buried in Safari Preferences. "Default Mail Application" is buried in Apple's Mail app Preferences.
What I found particularly annoying was that Mail app forced me to configure it with (more or less) valid configuration information before it would let me look at its Preferences to make sure that PowerMail was still the default. (Which it was.) For as long as I recall part of what Apple meant to computing was "ease of use" and "choice". I see a trend now toward doing things not because they're easy, or intuitive, or even because they make sense, but either because "that's what Windows users are used to" or because "it's our OS and our Apps and we'll do as we please". Does that mean that every mail client is going to have to include an option in it's own Prefs to make itself the Default Mail App? Is Apple going to allow 3rd party apps to do that? Or will we all be coerced into setting up Mail just so we can have the choice not to use it? I'm trying to get a little reality check here, because I think they've stepped over the line on this one. Maybe I'm wrong. It seems like we've gone back about 10 years. Back before "Internet Config" put all the Internet configuration in one place, at the System level, outside of applications. Are these system level Preferences available anywhere else, or has the OS really been this Microsoftized? - Chris Plummer =================================================== check the UNPREDICTABLE archive - <http://www.unpredictablemac.com> ===================================================
