<strong>Individually lock Icons on the dock so they do not accidentally go "missing"</strong><hr></blockquote>
It took me this long to figure out what the *heck* you might be talking about here...
If you start an app, its icon appears in the Dock, if it's not already there. When you quit the app, the icon disappears, as it is supposed to. (An app's icon is only kept in the Dock permanently if you *DRAG* it there. If it just appears when you launch the app, it's temporary.)
You can 'lock' the icon in the Dock by ctrl-clicking on the icon in the Dock and selecting 'Keep in Dock'. Been that way since 10.1, IIRC.
Really. not going to happen.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Why? because font smoothing is really aimed towards CRTs. My biggest problem with font smoothing is that fonts look slighlty blurred which is a common prob in anti-aniliasing.
And when you start taking options away froman OS you arent giving every one a choice of customisation. for me i only want (need) font smoothing in certain documents.
<strong>Why? because font smoothing is really aimed towards CRTs.</strong><hr></blockquote>Actully 10.2 took great strides in improving AA display on LCD screens, incorporating options for sub-pixel antialiasing. If you are using an LCD, I suggest you look at these options in System Prefs in the General pane. Remember, antialiastng is done to make text look more realistic like it does on paper. The days of 1-pixel-wide bitmapped glyphs on all fonts are gone -- they were never truly representative of the fonts' shapes.
If you think AA really looks blurry then I would suggest that you either need to calibrate your display, try it on a higher quality display, or get your eyes checked. Seriously. Most people I've heard from say that 10.2's antialiasing looks fantastic on both CRTs and LCDs.
<strong>Actully 10.2 took great strides in improving AA display on LCD screens, incorporating options for sub-pixel antialiasing. If you are using an LCD, I suggest you look at these options in System Prefs in the General pane. Remember, antialiastng is done to make text look more realistic like it does on paper. The days of 1-pixel-wide bitmapped glyphs on all fonts are gone -- they were never truly representative of the fonts' shapes.
If you think AA really looks blurry then I would suggest that you either need to calibrate your display, try it on a higher quality display, or get your eyes checked. Seriously. Most people I've heard from say that 10.2's antialiasing looks fantastic on both CRTs and LCDs.</strong><hr></blockquote>
10.2 may of mase great strides towards improving font smoothing but it aint quite there yet.
i have a formac 17" LCD and my display is calibrated, As for my eyes i have just had a new prescription. I looked at this problem on other apples in PCworld, the font smoothing problem appears on the imac and the ibook which has apples built in TFT's but on the emac it looks sharp, not only do i notice it but five of my friends (who dont need glasses) aswell as 2 of PCworlds sales staff. Font smoothing still has a long way to go as for now some people like it and some dont. all i am asking for is an option that allows ME the user to have a choice whether or not i want it on.
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<strong>Individually lock Icons on the dock so they do not accidentally go "missing"</strong><hr></blockquote>
It took me this long to figure out what the *heck* you might be talking about here...
If you start an app, its icon appears in the Dock, if it's not already there. When you quit the app, the icon disappears, as it is supposed to. (An app's icon is only kept in the Dock permanently if you *DRAG* it there. If it just appears when you launch the app, it's temporary.)
You can 'lock' the icon in the Dock by ctrl-clicking on the icon in the Dock and selecting 'Keep in Dock'. Been that way since 10.1, IIRC.
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Why?
Have you looked at OS X sans AA?
Really. not going to happen.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Why? because font smoothing is really aimed towards CRTs. My biggest problem with font smoothing is that fonts look slighlty blurred which is a common prob in anti-aniliasing.
And when you start taking options away froman OS you arent giving every one a choice of customisation. for me i only want (need) font smoothing in certain documents.
- Further integration of 0S 9 finder.
- New OPENGL TOOLS FOR GAMING
- JDK 1.4.1 with support for J2D,3D,SUN one and .net framework.
- New XML tools, revamped performance,FREEBSD 5.0 & a smoother transisiton between other types of technologies :eek:
Edit:
OK, I downloaded it, but still can't record stuff in X.
It sure looks nice though.
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<strong>Why? because font smoothing is really aimed towards CRTs.</strong><hr></blockquote>Actully 10.2 took great strides in improving AA display on LCD screens, incorporating options for sub-pixel antialiasing. If you are using an LCD, I suggest you look at these options in System Prefs in the General pane. Remember, antialiastng is done to make text look more realistic like it does on paper. The days of 1-pixel-wide bitmapped glyphs on all fonts are gone -- they were never truly representative of the fonts' shapes.
If you think AA really looks blurry then I would suggest that you either need to calibrate your display, try it on a higher quality display, or get your eyes checked. Seriously. Most people I've heard from say that 10.2's antialiasing looks fantastic on both CRTs and LCDs.
<strong>Actully 10.2 took great strides in improving AA display on LCD screens, incorporating options for sub-pixel antialiasing. If you are using an LCD, I suggest you look at these options in System Prefs in the General pane. Remember, antialiastng is done to make text look more realistic like it does on paper. The days of 1-pixel-wide bitmapped glyphs on all fonts are gone -- they were never truly representative of the fonts' shapes.
If you think AA really looks blurry then I would suggest that you either need to calibrate your display, try it on a higher quality display, or get your eyes checked. Seriously. Most people I've heard from say that 10.2's antialiasing looks fantastic on both CRTs and LCDs.</strong><hr></blockquote>
10.2 may of mase great strides towards improving font smoothing but it aint quite there yet.
i have a formac 17" LCD and my display is calibrated, As for my eyes i have just had a new prescription. I looked at this problem on other apples in PCworld, the font smoothing problem appears on the imac and the ibook which has apples built in TFT's but on the emac it looks sharp, not only do i notice it but five of my friends (who dont need glasses) aswell as 2 of PCworlds sales staff. Font smoothing still has a long way to go as for now some people like it and some dont. all i am asking for is an option that allows ME the user to have a choice whether or not i want it on.
taking this away from a user is not fair play.