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Why do people install crap like Unsanity's hacks that just screw up their system? You're back to the bad old days of crappy extensions just like OS 8/9. Are they so desparate for that old functionality? Are they so incapabable of learning to work differently?
Not everything new is better
In general I'd agree but FruitMenu fills a major gap in functionality. There is no fast way to launch applications which aren't in the Dock in the default OS X install. Putting the Applications folder in the dock might be acceptable except for that many-second delay every time you click on a menu entry.
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I use my Mac, something like 12 hours a day, for many different things : programming (XWin, MacOS, etc.), games, word processing, mail reading, web browsing, etc. It's probably the only platform on which I can do all these things (and I've tried Windows XP). For me, the UI (User Interface) is of primary importance, not because of its "look", but because of the ease of use it provides me with when I want to maintain all these activities in a coherent way (easily swtich between them, etc.).
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I agree - I have broken many of my old GUI habits and almost prefer doing things the nix way now that I am learning how. Sheer speed alone! BUT - I wouldn't touch the OS X GUI without FruitMenu installed - shame that a 3rd party has to create something that was originally in Mac OS and then stripped.
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Hi bluehz,
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Thx Adrianu - thats at least some helpful info to look into . No one else has even begin to offer suggestions. I don't really have any odd .profile - standard tcsh - but I do have a modified prompt that gives me a 2 line prompt (ex. date/dir). I was once having a problem using scp to some other machines on my LAN and finally traced it down to that 2 line prompt - scp was choking on it. I suppose its possible this could also be the problem here. |
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