Trane Francks wrote:
On 8/4/13 10:13 AM +0900, Rufus wrote:Trane Francks wrote:Why can't some people recognize that other people have other preferences and/or work-flow requirements? ;-)...yeah - but you're out in the cold, so it's time to light a fire.Which I'm doing: I'm working with Thunderbird-specific growlnotify and tweaking the code to work with SeaMonkey. I'm confident that I'll be able to disable the pop-up XUL notifications in the SM prefs and leave it up to the extension to talk with Growl. Test notifications already work, so now it's 'only' a matter of figuring out exactly which flags to monitor. Currently, turning off the XUL notifications turns off the Growl notifications, too. Conversely, enabling SM's XUL notifications supersedes the Growl notifications. LOL - I'll get there.
...then you have more firewood than I do!
I'd use rules again - starting with each account sorting into appropriate inboxes/filing systems. And again, using a different sound for each account if not sender...that's not much different from using a cell phone. You could even have the System read them to you, prettyNo doubt, you won't be surprised to hear that I despise using phones for mail. I seldom use my iPhone to browse or send/receive mail. The exception is server alarms: If something blows up, nagios spams my iPhone with alarm notifications. I don't need tones for that; half-a-dozen messages coming in at 3 a.m. need immediate attention.
I despise using phones *period*...I prefer to use my iPad for e-mail and Facetime, and I only have a "not-smart" cell phone because my employer gives me one...and most of the time it stays tethered to the charger - turned off. I keep the ringers on my land lines off mostly too...e-mail is my primary communication tool. And I *really* hate text messaging...
I haven't upgraded to 10.8 and was suspicious of 10.7 because of full screen apps until I got my Mini - at least with 10.7 you have an option to go full screen or not, and from what I've seen of ML it's pretty much the same...but I haven't really seen much of the bigger cat.The problem with Lion and how full-screen mode blanks out secondary displays is a real stopper for me. My MacBook is my primary screen and the adjacent, 23" Acer extends the desktop. Going full-screen in Lion blanks out the Acer and pushes the windowed app onto the primary screen. Stupid. ML addresses the issue by enabling the user to determine which screen gets the app and which one gets blanked. *SIGH* Mavericks looks to be better -- allowing both full-screen apps on one or more monitors and windowed apps on any others -- but it decouples the desktops, so that Mission Control is 100% independent for each monitor. That will entirely bork my work-flow. Bah.
I have to agree with you - I'm not really a fan of Mission Control myself. I like the way Spaces works under SnoLep far better. And I *HATE* full screen apps - you should see Windoze 8 though, if you want to see a real horror-show as far as that goes...I predict that business users will *never* adopt it the way it is.
I haven't tried using any of the OS X cats with multiple screens yet, but soon...being in SoCal, I figure that once the new Mac Pro is out and picks up any steam I may look to pick up a used big-box Pro as an industrial cast-off. Then I'll set it up to run as many X-cats as I can get away with, plus Win7.
I'm a dinosaur, I realize, but I really do consider Snow Leopard to be the last truly great release of OS X. I am hoping that both Apple and SeaMonkey support the release for a decent period to come. I'm not looking forward to a forced upgrade.
I can't say I don't agree with you about SnoLep - it's about the cat's meow, IMO. At work we still use Windows XP and are *just* now talking about upgrading to Win7; I've heard SnoLep compared to XP in that regard - it does what users that want a *computer* want to do, and those people aren't "upgrading"...that 10.6.8 is Apple's "XP". I can see that comparison working out to become truth.
Supported or not, my SnoLep machines will never be upgraded...and my 10.7 machine probably won't be either. The only way I'll ever get ML will be to buy a new machine, and even then I'll likely partition and install a reversion - back to 10.6.8 if I have to.You'll need to run it in a VM. The new hardware is not backward-compatible and I think you'll find that the EFI will not support booting SL from Bootcamp. One of the annoyances of being in the Apple camp. Cheers, trane
Actually, I think what I'll do is simply hold onto older hardware and freshen/speed it up with SSDs. My SnoLep driven iMac is close to six years old now and still a pretty fine machine - but I could slick it up with an SSD. Same goes for my Macbook Pro. I also have a G5 iMac around that could benefit from the same treatment and a 10.5.8/10.4 dual boot partitioning.
Since I only have one machine with a Win7 install on it (my Mini) using Bootcamp isn't much of a concern for me. That machine will likely live as a Lion/Win7 box for the remainder of it's natural life.
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- Rufus
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