Mac OS X 10.3.2... Soon?

[hamishb]

TW 2003 patch

Originally posted by willmg
Hopefully this fixes some graphics issues in 3D games as well, I tried out tiger woods 2003 last night on my PB 1.25 and it has some serious artifacts.

Did you grab the patch for Tiger Woods 2003 released a week or so ago?

Not sure it will fix it, but grab it anyway.

 

[splashman]

Re: expose bug

Originally posted by cristiana
I hope they fix this expose bug. I run dual monitors. If I have a window which has more than 50% of it below the screen, and then, hit the all windows hey. The windows fly into the corner, and are only a few pixels tall. The top of the image is the before, and the bottom is the after i hit the all windows key.

Interesting! I hadn't noticed this before, but you're right, that's what happens! (Actually, I don't even get a "few pixels tall" -- they completely disappear.)

Yeesh, you'd sure think Apple and the beta testers could have caught this one!

 

[Powerbook G5]

Does it have to be dual monitors? I tried putting two Safari windows off the bottom of the screen like described, but activating "all windows" mode of Exposé worked like it should have.

 

[splashman]

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
Does it have to be dual monitors? I tried putting two Safari windows off the bottom of the screen like described, but activating "all windows" mode of Exposé worked like it should have.

Forgot to mention -- I'm running a dual-monitor setup as well (two 19" LCDs). So perhaps it is a dual-monitor problem only.

To be more specific about the problem, if more than 50% of a window is off-screen (either to the left, right, or bottom), when you press an Exposé key (F9 or F10), the window zooms to the upper left of the left monitor, at the same time scaling down to nothing, so it is essentially invisible.

To be even more specific, my reference to "left, right, or bottom" refers to the virtual monitor space (as if the 2 screens were just one big monitor). So the problem I'm describing doesn't occur when the window is split between the two monitors. It only occurs when the window is off to the left of the left monitor, off to the right of the right monitor, or off the bottom of either.

 

[sososowhat]

Re: disappointed...

Originally posted by uberman42
I decided to go back to 10.2.8 I'll wait till 10.3.7 is out before I install this again on my PBook 12" rev A. And thanks for the bug report link mcsjgs

I hope you remembered to go to 10.2.8(b) not 10.2.8(a).

 

[Mac Kiwi]

Heres hoping the new drivers seriously improve our Open GL abilities.




This dual monitor bug is a pain,I have 2 NEC 19 inch LCDs on their way to me.

 

[Trimix]

Originally posted by kherdin
Hopefully, all of you who are talking about bugs you've experienced have reported them to Apple. How else are you expecting them to fix these?

Mea culpa

I rather bitch here and hope that someone from Apple is reading this.

 

[Trimix]

Re: Re: Help my fellow Mac user?

Originally posted by splashman
How about canning the sarcasm? While you're at it, why don't you suggest to everyone that they not assume that every problem they're having is Apple's fault? Count up the number of posts in this thread that sound something like this: "[X] application crashes a lot. Why doesn't Apple fix it?" Well, of course, it MUST be Apple's problem. It COULDN'T be due to anything the user did.

I'm not suggesting the users are definitely at fault. I'd just like to see a few more questions asked, and a few less assumptions made.

sorry splashman i must disagree a tad
if my system runs perfectly, which it did before the installation of PANTHER, then the last one who made the changes, aka Apple, must get the blame by default.
I for one cannot take the blame as i was just the disc jockey, who switched between installation disc one and two.
The guys who made the other programs such as MS sadly cannot be blamed either as their programs ran without a glitch before. So in a way, yes it is Apple's problem - they introduced an extension to the OS, received my money for it and i feel i can demand that it works at least as well as before and definitely not worse

 

[encro]

Re: Re: Re: mail...and address book

Originally posted by alamar
Address book could also use some grouping features, but it doesn't need much more...

I disagree with you as Address Book could do with some serious improvement:

1. A method to automatically transfer Birthday and Aniversary fields to iCal (without using iCal Birthday Shifter)

2. A method of storage/retrieval of sent SMS messages. Currently all sent messages go to >dev/null with no verification the message was actually sent.

3. Long SMS Message implementation.

4. SMS Smilies (the same ones in iCal) - optional

5. Automatic Linking of Photo's to Names on a syncronised Phone directory via iSync. This might not be possible with current SymbianOS or Sony-Ericsson phones, I'm not sure.

 

[splashman]

Re: Re: Re: Help my fellow Mac user?

Originally posted by Trimix
sorry splashman i must disagree a tad
if my system runs perfectly, which it did before the installation of PANTHER, then the last one who made the changes, aka Apple, must get the blame by default.
I for one cannot take the blame as i was just the disc jockey, who switched between installation disc one and two.
The guys who made the other programs such as MS sadly cannot be blamed either as their programs ran without a glitch before. So in a way, yes it is Apple's problem - they introduced an extension to the OS, received my money for it and i feel i can demand that it works at least as well as before and definitely not worse

If a given situation is exactly as you describe (i.e., worked before, doesn't now), then Apple gets the blame -- fair enough. But that's not the type of situation I was aiming my comment at. I specifically mentioned users who give no other explanation besides "It's broke. Must be Apple's fault." (Such as a few posts earlier in this thread.)

Fair enough?

 

[iPC]

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
As I mentioned previously, there have been postings by Apple on their discussion boards mentioning that Safari and Mail have known stability issues due to outside fonts that are corrupt not being handled gracefully by the programs, resulting in a crash, so if anyone who is experiencing these frequent crashes with Safari has added fonts, I'd suggest disabling them to see if it helps.

I have not added any fonts (this thing is for personal use only).

Mine is a Jag install that was updated to Panther though.

 

[JJTiger1]

Re: expose bug

Originally posted by cristiana
I hope {snippage}

I liked the Expose features, for about an hour.

I use a mouse that has acceleration features. The acceleration feature overflies the cursor and into a corner which launches an Expose feature,
.. which means that I have to stop what I'm doing, click somewhere that I did not intend to, just to resume where I was before Expose triggered.

... and it all slows me down, so I turned OFF Expose. Selected the " - " (dash).
=-=-=
Problem: accelerated mouse (Logitech Marble Mouse) launches Expose unintentionally.

Brainless Solution : whine that Apple needs to fix something that is not within their realm of responsibility.
=-=
JJ

 

[Trimix]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Help my fellow Mac user?

Originally posted by splashman
If a given situation is exactly as you describe (i.e., worked before, doesn't now), then Apple gets the blame -- fair enough. But that's not the type of situation I was aiming my comment at. I specifically mentioned users who give no other explanation besides "It's broke. Must be Apple's fault." (Such as a few posts earlier in this thread.)

Fair enough?

it is exactly as i described it and thus your comment is well taken and very fair

 

[BOOMBA]

Re: Re: mail...and address book

Originally posted by coolfactor
Apple has different teams of people working on different aspects of the OS and applications. That's why Mail and iPhoto have some very odd approaches to interface design. The Mail Import Assistant in Mail.app is just silly, and the Keywords feature in iPhoto definitely has room for improvement.

Right again coolfactor!
You are soooo cool!

 

[areyouwishing]

Originally posted by fBaran
Does any body know if they're gonna supprt HP OfficeJet v40? The open source drivers don't work

I've gotten a v40 to work, both by USB and by Windows Sharing...and that was under jag.

 

[magi.sys]

I use a mouse that has acceleration features. The acceleration feature overflies the cursor and into a corner which launches an Expose feature,
.. which means that I have to stop what I'm doing, click somewhere that I did not intend to, just to resume where I was before Expose triggered.

That's why there's the option to use the keyboard (function keys).

 

[JJTiger1]

Originally posted by magi.sys
That's why there's the option to use the keyboard (function keys).

Thank you.

I am aware of the keyboard F-key Expose mapping defaults, which I had to turn off to prevent conflicts.

I should have mentioned that my USB Logitech Navigator keyboard keys came with it's own default mapping to other functions that I use.

Thank you.