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awulf
Dec 29, 2003, 06:54 PM
After using panther for a while I realised not only did Apple add new features to Panther but they killed some too.

Text-to-Speech the voice 'Good News' has gone.

Disk Copy (the program) merged with Disk Utility, which makes things harder to use.

Keycaps I can't find it anywhere, it was one of my favourite utilities in Mac OS especially when you were missing the keyboard. It was with us from a early age (System 6, I think). The Panther upgrade deleted Keycaps.

Has anyone else noticed anything else disappearing?


vniow
Dec 29, 2003, 07:15 PM
Originally posted by awulf
Keycaps I can't find it anywhere, it was one of my favourite utilities in Mac OS especially when you were missing the keyboard. It was with us from a early age (System 6, I think). The Panther upgrade deleted Keycaps.


Yeah, I liked that program too, I used the Classic version until I snatched my Jaguar discs and extracted the OSX version of the app, I can send it to you if you like (or anyone else for that matter) Works great in Panther.
cpjakes
Dec 29, 2003, 08:04 PM
In the International pane of System Preferences, select Input Menu and turn on Keyboard Viewer. This adds another icon to the menu bar, but adds quick access to the now hidden Key Caps.

cpjakes
awulf
Dec 29, 2003, 09:28 PM
Originally posted by cpjakes
In the International pane of System Preferences, select Input Menu and turn on Keyboard Viewer. This adds another icon to the menu bar, but adds quick access to the now hidden Key Caps.

cpjakes

Apple could have made it a bit simpler.
movabi
Dec 29, 2003, 09:31 PM
in list view in the finder, there is no longer a crosshair marquee to select files. You can shift select, to get multiple files in the list, but its not the same.
7on
Dec 30, 2003, 12:32 PM
networking
MetallicPenguin
Dec 30, 2003, 05:18 PM
Originally posted by cpjakes
In the International pane of System Preferences, select Input Menu and turn on Keyboard Viewer. This adds another icon to the menu bar, but adds quick access to the now hidden Key Caps.

cpjakes

Thank you very much, I just spilled water all over my keyboard, but I do not see any of the things except System Preferences and the International Pane, can you please show them to me?
cpjakes
Dec 30, 2003, 05:34 PM
You should get this with the International System Preference pane... The first two options give the menu item.

cpjakes
MetallicPenguin
Dec 30, 2003, 05:42 PM
sorry, i'm an idiot, kept going to universal access. thanks
Stelliform
Dec 31, 2003, 08:57 AM
I am with 7on on this one, but I will elaborate. While the networking in Panther works better (IMHO) the browsing of the network worked much better in jag.

Pro: My computer doesn't hang indefinitely when I forget to disconnect a network drive.

Con: Browsing is super slow now. (But I can browse the shares which is a pro, but since it is so slow I don't use it.)
lazyrighteye
Dec 31, 2003, 01:37 PM
I can't seem to figure out how to print the contents of a folder. In OS 9, it was File > Print Window. This feature appears to have dropped out in 10.3.
Yes one can always take a screen shot of a folder's contents, but this adds an unnecesary step or two.

But maybe I am missing something...
lazyrighteye
Dec 31, 2003, 01:47 PM
Found this: http://www.swssoftware.com/default.html

Not tested.