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Mac OS X 10.4.2 Build 8C46 and Widget Manager
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ham_man said:Now that Widget Manager is just plain sexy. Anyhoo, hope Apple can get 10.4.2 out the door soon. Safari has been a bit buggy for me lately...
Let's hope it does include an improved Safari (or at least one with less bugs). I'm using Camino more now because Safari just crashes or slows down way too often.
Wonder Boy said:
I didn't swear nor did i mean to circumvent the spam filter.
i've seen that written 100s of times. i didn't think anything of it. sorry.
Aaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
When are they going to release this update! I'm tired of Tiger not working properly. Couldn't they have fixed the most urgent problems with 10.4.2 and then move the minor fixes off onto 10.4.3 development. With as much time that it's going to take on this update and all of the bug fixes included in it they should start calling it 10.4.9.
Steve, Avie, or some other important manager must have been really pissed off by all of the bugs in Tiger, just as much as me. It seems now that the engineers are being made to totally perfect Tiger in this update. Which I will admit is a good thing but is turning out to be very painful for this customer.
At least I can hold on to some hope that a .Mac service upgrade may be around the corner. We all know that it is long overdue for .Mac.
When are they going to release this update! I'm tired of Tiger not working properly. Couldn't they have fixed the most urgent problems with 10.4.2 and then move the minor fixes off onto 10.4.3 development. With as much time that it's going to take on this update and all of the bug fixes included in it they should start calling it 10.4.9.
Steve, Avie, or some other important manager must have been really pissed off by all of the bugs in Tiger, just as much as me. It seems now that the engineers are being made to totally perfect Tiger in this update. Which I will admit is a good thing but is turning out to be very painful for this customer.
At least I can hold on to some hope that a .Mac service upgrade may be around the corner. We all know that it is long overdue for .Mac.
From Café Mac:
Also fixed and changed in this seed are:
- Fixed issue where inherit permissions may not work correctly
- Fixed issue where AirPort may not reconnect after Wake From Sleep
- Fixed resizing issue with CoreGraphics and certain widgets
- Fixed issue with Directory Service
- Fixed problem where transferring a message from an IMAP mailbox to a
local mail box may cause the message to disappear
- Fixed problem where iTunes artwork may not copy correctly to certain
devices
- Improved Screen Saver image resolution on certain G4 iMacs, eMacs,
PowerBooks and iBooks
Finally!! My screensaver has been bugging me to no end. here's hoping this will fix my iBook G4
Also fixed and changed in this seed are:
- Fixed issue where inherit permissions may not work correctly
- Fixed issue where AirPort may not reconnect after Wake From Sleep
- Fixed resizing issue with CoreGraphics and certain widgets
- Fixed issue with Directory Service
- Fixed problem where transferring a message from an IMAP mailbox to a
local mail box may cause the message to disappear
- Fixed problem where iTunes artwork may not copy correctly to certain
devices
- Improved Screen Saver image resolution on certain G4 iMacs, eMacs,
PowerBooks and iBooks
Finally!! My screensaver has been bugging me to no end. here's hoping this will fix my iBook G4
thevessels said:
Interesting. Hope it does get fixed!
I haven't seen that. The one I do get is that the dashboard sometimes has a huge pause -- just like beachballing, but no beachball, before it comes up. And it's hard to tell if it even heard me press the key. I have plenty of other problems with Tiger...mind you. I have had more system freezes in the past two months than with a year and a half of Panther.
I too am very excited for 10.4.2....acedickson said:
You don't need any third paty apps for that. The ability to that is biuld in in the Tiger, you just have to enable it.
Just in terminal "defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES"
Yes is for active, type No to deactivate it.
This anables a widget development which allows for placing widgets on dashboard.
All I can say is they better have the "bugs" related to the Revision B 1.8 Ghz G5 tower fixed in 10.4.2 or there's going to be a bunch of us quite ticked that we have to wait even longer to have such a simple bug fixed.
For those who don't know, our model has been discontinued and all our requests for support on the Apple website deleted. The problem is related to OpenGL, it would seem, and is specific to our model. Each time something is run that will take advantage of OGL after 2-3 hours of up-time, the computer will lock up: Guaranteed - full-screen ogl's will lock immediately. Quicktime plugin from safari or anything else that would run a quicktime in a window will crash most of the time. And when i say it locks or crashes, I'm saying everything is history. Sound still plays...but it doesn't respond to keyboard input even though you can see your mouse move around the screen. Danged annoying.
I don't know what I'm going to do if they try to make me wait 'till 10.4.3 for a solid fix. Probably sell the dang thing and move on to something else.
-thomas
For those who don't know, our model has been discontinued and all our requests for support on the Apple website deleted. The problem is related to OpenGL, it would seem, and is specific to our model. Each time something is run that will take advantage of OGL after 2-3 hours of up-time, the computer will lock up: Guaranteed - full-screen ogl's will lock immediately. Quicktime plugin from safari or anything else that would run a quicktime in a window will crash most of the time. And when i say it locks or crashes, I'm saying everything is history. Sound still plays...but it doesn't respond to keyboard input even though you can see your mouse move around the screen. Danged annoying.
I don't know what I'm going to do if they try to make me wait 'till 10.4.3 for a solid fix. Probably sell the dang thing and move on to something else.
-thomas
acedickson said:
you mean keep the widget there, or put a alias on the desktop? If you want to keep it there, I think its cntrl click or something that does that. I am pretty sure it can do that already, I don't have tiger yet, but I have used a few machines with it and read an article in macaddict about that same question. ask someone who knows more about the command you need to press.
iMThomas said:
or just install panther until they update it, that still sucks though
The Widget Manager is much needed and will be most useful. It even looks to have a good design to it. I wonder if this was in the works all along or if it is the result of more widgets being designed than Apple may have imagined.
jinzo012 said:
That's what i was wondering. I can't believe that it was cancelled as previously posted or that the media misunderstood what the invitation actually meant.
nagromme said:
Yeah, it's almost as if they want to make sure the dashboard and widgets don't need OSX underneath to run .... ;-)ebunton said:
Tiger has been the worst update as far as the bug count goes. My Mail app is dysfunctional mostly. The app people likely use often is the most buggy. Please fix Mail first!
Find them on a website, double click to download, click "yes" to allow the program to install... and they'll be there. (That's installed in your user-specific widgets folder, not the shared/generic widgets folder)cantthinkofone said:
Why don't they just improve the widget dock to have the functionality of this. I mean my screen real estatewith widgets is already kinda low. Why another one, seems redundant? I guess that's what i get for choosing a 12" pb. I think a system preferences panel woudl have been more effective.
As far as tiger is concerned. I really feel like OSX has reached the maturity they were working towards. i can do just about everything I want with it. I would really like to see spotlight improvements. Its slow to start with, and buggy, and furthermore as mentioned doesn't look inside documents with much accuracy in my experience. I would also like to have it do "did you mean" type of searches. Often times I will mispell a filename or i will know part of what i called it. For the 600 gigs i throw at it it doesa decent job but not quite what i thougt it was going to be. I really wish that they would allow command line terminal functions to be typed into a spotlight type thing as well.
Tiger has been really buggy and kernal panicky for me. I think that is the first time i have noticed major problems with os x since I bought the os x beta back in late 2000. Just so many little irritants. I'm sure it will come together sooner or later, and it's still the best OS
As far as tiger is concerned. I really feel like OSX has reached the maturity they were working towards. i can do just about everything I want with it. I would really like to see spotlight improvements. Its slow to start with, and buggy, and furthermore as mentioned doesn't look inside documents with much accuracy in my experience. I would also like to have it do "did you mean" type of searches. Often times I will mispell a filename or i will know part of what i called it. For the 600 gigs i throw at it it doesa decent job but not quite what i thougt it was going to be. I really wish that they would allow command line terminal functions to be typed into a spotlight type thing as well.
Tiger has been really buggy and kernal panicky for me. I think that is the first time i have noticed major problems with os x since I bought the os x beta back in late 2000. Just so many little irritants. I'm sure it will come together sooner or later, and it's still the best OS
While I appreciate the enormous effort of Apple's engineers to make Tiger as smooth as possible, I really can't complain about 10.4.1.
But what if you bought your Single G5 (late2004)...
But what if you bought your Single G5 (late2004) just recently - say, just after Tiger was released. Are you proposing that we have to buy an old operating system, because the one Apple bundles with the hardware doesn't work. That's rediculous!
corywoolf said:
But what if you bought your Single G5 (late2004) just recently - say, just after Tiger was released. Are you proposing that we have to buy an old operating system, because the one Apple bundles with the hardware doesn't work. That's rediculous!
