[aenemated]

ok, i'm not a developer -- but i've got a few ideas that, if they can be implemented, would improve the percieved speed of os x at least to the point of tolerance. and i was curious if any of you guys had similar ideas and have made any effort to implement them. as it were ...

1) killing the fade in/fade out of the menus. make them pop in and pop out like in os 9. even if os x was fast as hell, this still *seems* slow and can be annoying.

2) live resizing. this seems to be an app level thing, since some have the outline you stretch to resize and others do live resizing. if you don't see that it's choking a bit on the resize, it would, again, *SEEM* faster. this issue is particularly evident in the finder and explorer ... any way to change that?

like i said ... i'm no developer, but i think these small things would, at worst, make os x act a little, forgive me, snappier. yes?

[Wixar]

Menus don't fade in. Try it.

When Microsoft copied the menu fade feature for Windows, they did make them fade in, and it did feel much slower.

-Peter

[Angus_D]

Window resizing is live unless you use an old, out-of-date Carbon API, AFAIK. So you could theoretically force it if you write in Carbon, although it would be pointless, and there's no chance if you write it in Cocoa (although you could theoretically hack up the NSWindow class and implement it differently, say by creating a window on top that is just the frame and resizing that, but I can't see the point myself).