On 3/4/03 3:35 pm, "Rod Wynne-Powell" wrote: > They might argue, but when you are using the dock for all these other > purposes it gets to be a tad crowded and small, or it gets in the way. > > The idea of collapsing folders to tabs along the base of the window was > really handy, if that were still available, this might make the Dock > available for simply the System Preferences and open items, but sorry, > MacOS 9 was far slicker in the way open folders, running applications > and utilities were catered for. The tear off for App Switcher that > floated above other windows meant I could drag items from one program > to another with far less hassle than in Ten. I am using Ten almost > exclusively, and like much of what I use, but some of the aspects of > Nine workflow that had matured over several years of use have not yet > made it to the fledgling system. > > I live in hope that some of the features that made Nine a good system, > make it to Panther, we shall see...
Rod, you appear to be suffering from "new user blues". I had similar thoughts when I first started using OSX. I think most OS9 users have these feelings. But persevere and you'll find that they rapidly disappear. I can't think of a single feature of OS9, that I now miss (after using X for well over 6 months now). It has to be OSX.2 though, anyone still commenting about 10.1 is using an out of date system which is no comparison to X.2. I'm not sure how you are organising your dock? Or which screen/res you are using, but on a 15" powerbook (max res) mine has 29 apps along the bottom and currently 10 docs/other folders, with another 4 inches available for more. Are you using the dock efficiently? Do you realise for instance, that you can have one Images folder in the dock, which when you click and hold, will produce a sub-menu that you can navigate. Same with the Applications folder. Also, why do you want to know what apps are running? In OS9 this was useful info, as the more apps running the less efficient the system was. However this is not the case anymore in X. You can have as many apps as you want running, as they share memory much more efficiently now (read MUCH), programs do not take memory as they did in 9, they only take memory when they are in the foreground (or the multitask in the background with superb efficiency). The app switcher does not really serve much purpose anymore, hence why they dispensed with it. Someone also mentioned dragging a doc to an app in the app switcher. You can now simply drag a doc/image (or group of docs/images) to the app in the dock. Collapsing folders to tabs at the bottom of the screen in OS9, is available in OSX. Its just that now the folder collapses into the dock. And as mentioned above can be navigated fully. There is no difference to how OS9 worked. Hope you can get to grips with X. It really is superb, and keeps getting better with each minor upgrade. There is so much of it that people don't even know about (I include myself). I keep finding out new things, which greatly improve the way I work. regards Paul -- Paul Tansley Fashion & Beauty Photography London +44 (0) 7973 669584 http://www.paultansley.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
