Yeah its a start BuonRotto. Most design houses have a LOT of fonts. I know we do and although I'm sure OS X isn't quite like OS 9 as far as more fonts = bad, I sure as hell don't want to scroll through 1000 fonts to find what I'm looking for. Nor do I want to spend the time grouping them all into logical folders like they suggest heh. Should be something akin to ATM Deluxe that lets to add on the fly. Then auto-opens whatever your document needs.
(btw cool! I didnt know Jag finally lets you put fonts in folders!!)
I'm pretty sure OS X only loads fonts as theyr are needed for viewing. The list in the menu without formatting is simple, but with formatting loads all the fonts.
There a System Preference you can get, Diablotin, that allows you to turn fonts on and off. Requires admin password to change settings on non-User fonts though. It lets you control Libraries, etc., like the Extension Manager used to.
I also understand ( but I could be wrong) that OS X loads fonts on an as-need basis and dumps them when not needed. I think there is a cache for fonts though.
Anyway, I didn't mean to insult your intelligence or anything. It's just that I've found so few people use Cocoa apps and use so many legacy Carbon ones, espcially Adobe, MS and Macromedia ones, that they're often not aware of tools like this in the OS at all.
Assuming OS X handles fonts as well as I think it might, it would be nice for the Font pnale to interpret font folders as collections by default. This would make managing fonts that much easier.
The ability to have apps running when you're logged off like in XP woudl also be an interesting feature but with unix perhaps more effort than it's worth.
The ability to have apps running when you're logged off like in XP woudl also be an interesting feature but with unix perhaps more effort than it's worth.
Actually, I think *nixes have this ability, it's a bigger problem with the OS X window manager.
A non-OS feature I'd like is the addition of Pantone colors in the color panel, though they might not have done this in the first place due to expenses.
I want the escape key (or command-.) to cancel any process while it's running, whether it's launching an app, copying files, connecting to a sever, etc. I'd like to see more of the process viewer incorporated into the Force Quit feature, but hierarchical so casual users don't have to deal with more complicated stuff then they need.
The ability to have apps running when you're logged off like in XP woudl also be an interesting feature but with unix perhaps more effort than it's worth.
Having apps run when you're logged off, scheduling them to run whether or not you're logged on, having multiple users logged on at once, and having the same user logged on multiple times with the same or different shells and session preferences — these are all trivial under UNIX. You can accomplish every one of them in Terminal.
The bottleneck here is the Window Manager, which, unlike any UNIX UI, runs only a single session and only on the local machine. If and when the Window Manager gets some of X11's flexibility (without inheriting some of X11's more dubious design decisions) we'll see this happen.
(Apple probably wrote the WM that way because first of all it's quicker and easier than writing a multi-session GUI when you're trying to get a next-gen OS out the door for once, and second of all it addresses the needs of most Mac users, since they're accustomed to a single-session OS.)
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(btw cool! I didnt know Jag finally lets you put fonts in folders!!)
There a System Preference you can get, Diablotin, that allows you to turn fonts on and off. Requires admin password to change settings on non-User fonts though. It lets you control Libraries, etc., like the Extension Manager used to.
Anyway, I didn't mean to insult your intelligence or anything. It's just that I've found so few people use Cocoa apps and use so many legacy Carbon ones, espcially Adobe, MS and Macromedia ones, that they're often not aware of tools like this in the OS at all.
Assuming OS X handles fonts as well as I think it might, it would be nice for the Font pnale to interpret font folders as collections by default. This would make managing fonts that much easier.
Suitcase, Font Reserve, and Font Agent each have their little quirks, but they all work fine, and allow auto-activation in the important design apps.
I'm sure they'll improve further as time goes on.
The ability to have apps running when you're logged off like in XP woudl also be an interesting feature but with unix perhaps more effort than it's worth.
Originally posted by Aquatic
IMHO a font manager should be included in 10.3.
The ability to have apps running when you're logged off like in XP woudl also be an interesting feature but with unix perhaps more effort than it's worth.
Actually, I think *nixes have this ability, it's a bigger problem with the OS X window manager.
A non-OS feature I'd like is the addition of Pantone colors in the color panel, though they might not have done this in the first place due to expenses.
I want the escape key (or command-.) to cancel any process while it's running, whether it's launching an app, copying files, connecting to a sever, etc. I'd like to see more of the process viewer incorporated into the Force Quit feature, but hierarchical so casual users don't have to deal with more complicated stuff then they need.
Originally posted by Aquatic
IMHO a font manager should be included in 10.3.
The ability to have apps running when you're logged off like in XP woudl also be an interesting feature but with unix perhaps more effort than it's worth.
Having apps run when you're logged off, scheduling them to run whether or not you're logged on, having multiple users logged on at once, and having the same user logged on multiple times with the same or different shells and session preferences — these are all trivial under UNIX. You can accomplish every one of them in Terminal.
The bottleneck here is the Window Manager, which, unlike any UNIX UI, runs only a single session and only on the local machine. If and when the Window Manager gets some of X11's flexibility (without inheriting some of X11's more dubious design decisions) we'll see this happen.
(Apple probably wrote the WM that way because first of all it's quicker and easier than writing a multi-session GUI when you're trying to get a next-gen OS out the door for once, and second of all it addresses the needs of most Mac users, since they're accustomed to a single-session OS.)