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Mac OS X vs. "Classic" Mac OSes.
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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 356159" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>My System 9 desktop</p><p></p><p><a href="http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=9desktopzc7.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/9173/9desktopzc7.th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>My OS X desktop (Who needs the dock?)</p><p></p><p><a href="http://img45.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xdesktopaa2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/117/xdesktopaa2.th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>The most obvious radical change is the dock. I'd rather live without it, so I make it as small as possible and hide it on the left side of the screen. Another obvious change, in Tiger at least, is Spotlight. I've dumped that, as well <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>So X on my machine is less radical than on others. I still run System 9, so I set up OS X with a dock-replacement shareware app called Classic Menu to mimic my apple menu in 9.</p><p></p><p>X has its shortcomings. Among them is its ability to record AppleScripts that is worse than it is in 9, and it still can't mute the startup bong without third-party intervention. Both apple menus have restart and shutdown AppleScripts that mute the sound before restarting or shutting down the machine. Each system has a "volume 2" AppleScript in the startup (login) items to turn on the sound after the un-bong.</p><p></p><p>The System Preferences requiring a main window are a throwback to System 6, and probably before. I made an alias of each preference pane and turned them back into separate control panels, the way they should be.</p><p></p><p>The pix show how I set up X to look like 9 — the way it's supposed to. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 356159, member: 3889"] My System 9 desktop [URL="http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=9desktopzc7.jpg"][IMG]http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/9173/9desktopzc7.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] My OS X desktop (Who needs the dock?) [URL="http://img45.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xdesktopaa2.jpg"][IMG]http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/117/xdesktopaa2.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The most obvious radical change is the dock. I'd rather live without it, so I make it as small as possible and hide it on the left side of the screen. Another obvious change, in Tiger at least, is Spotlight. I've dumped that, as well :) So X on my machine is less radical than on others. I still run System 9, so I set up OS X with a dock-replacement shareware app called Classic Menu to mimic my apple menu in 9. X has its shortcomings. Among them is its ability to record AppleScripts that is worse than it is in 9, and it still can't mute the startup bong without third-party intervention. Both apple menus have restart and shutdown AppleScripts that mute the sound before restarting or shutting down the machine. Each system has a "volume 2" AppleScript in the startup (login) items to turn on the sound after the un-bong. The System Preferences requiring a main window are a throwback to System 6, and probably before. I made an alias of each preference pane and turned them back into separate control panels, the way they should be. The pix show how I set up X to look like 9 — the way it's supposed to. :) [/QUOTE]
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