[bacchus]

Just though I would throw some more screenies up, consolidate the viewing.

Disk Utility 1

Disk Utility 2

iCal

Activity Monitor 1

Activity Monitor 2

Finder Prefs

Dvd Player

Dvd Controls

Check out http://www.vastmediaempire.com - for more picts. Or email me macnn @ vastmediaempire.com

[WJMoore]

Excellent, thanks for the pics.

WM

[7Macfreak]

WHAT is that yellow fishy looking icon??
looks like they went fishing on the 'sets' of finding nemo.

[edit] gaaaah, its a custom icon, i didnt realize.

[bborofka]

So what happens when I have my iCal window maximized to full screen (like it always is) and I go to add a new event... is the stupid drawer going to open up off the screen? I like drawers in concept, but I just don't like how they are handled in Jaguar... maybe they've been improved in Panther? I just hate it when I zoom a window with a drawer out, and it pushes the drawer off the screen like it doesn't exist. And I don't like it how hardly any apps shrink the main window when a drawer is opened so everything fits nicely on the screen. Can anyone tell me if they've improved drawers in Panther?

[bacchus]

The drawers in iCal anyway seem to work pretty well. If i have the window full screen and open the dock the main window resizes slightly to fit the drawer and main window on the screen.

[bborofka]

Originally posted by bacchus:
The drawers in iCal anyway seem to work pretty well. If i have the window full screen and open the dock the main window resizes slightly to fit the drawer and main window on the screen.

Do you mean drawer in place of dock there? If so, that's good to hear... this is how all windows should handle drawers.

[JKT]

Thanks for the images... I didn't get an answer to this in the other thread, but in iCal:

1. can you create a timed event that spans multiple days, e.g. from 6pm on Monday to 6pm on tuesday?

2. is there a "Go To: xyz date" option yet?

Two enormously annoying omissions in the current Jag version!

TIA

Edit: also, looking at the Disk Utility images, is it now possible to repair the boot disk, or do you still have to use the Installer disk (or single user mode at boot up)?

[rsh]

Yes you can create a timed event in iCal that spans multiple days. It looks a bit awkward because it expands iCal to include every hour between the start time (say 6PM Friday) and the end time (say 6PM Saturday). But it works.

And there is now a "Go To Date" (cmd-shift-t) command in the view menu. It presents a dialog that allows you to type in a date and takes you there.

[rsh]

Originally posted by rsh:
Yes you can create a timed event in iCal that spans multiple days. It looks a bit awkward because it expands iCal to include every hour between the start time (say 6PM Friday) and the end time (say 6PM Saturday). But it works.

And there is now a "Go To Date" (cmd-shift-t) command in the view menu. It presents a dialog that allows you to type in a date and takes you there.

Finally, Disk Utility cannot be used to repair the startup disk.

[JKT]

Originally posted by rsh:
Yes you can create a timed event in iCal that spans multiple days.

<snip>

It presents a dialog that allows you to type in a date and takes you there.

Excellent, thanks for the response. Shame about Disk Utility though.

[yellowdog]

On the subject of iCal - Say I do a search of theater dates and my list comes up - can I then print out the list output? This has been absent in iCal so far and a bit of a pain.

[gorgonzola]

If you want really thorough screenshots of Panther, you could go to AppleInsider's Mac OS X forum...one of the mods there put up pics of almost every part of the OS. There's 7Axx as well as 7Bxx.

You'd have to register, but if you want loads and loads of screenies, maybe it's worth it.

Just FYI.

[Eriamjh]

Finally, Disk Utility cannot be used to repair the startup disk.

This has never been possible. Not with OS9, not witgh OSX, not with Disk Utility, not with Norton. However, you can still fsck in single user mode upon boot (and maybe through the terminal... I'm not a Unix Xpert).

[cybergoober]

Originally posted by Eriamjh:
However, you can still fsck in single user mode upon boot (and maybe through the terminal... I'm not a Unix Xpert).

Don't think you can from the Terminal. You can from single user mode because the Startup Volume is not mounted.

[MasonMcD]

Woah! Do the exposé thing, then hit the tilde/accent key on the keyboard.

What the hell action is that? Application window grouping? Freaks me out with a lot of apps open, and I go fast.

Sorry I can't do a screengrab on it.

[rsh]

Originally posted by cybergoober:
Don't think you can from the Terminal. You can from single user mode because the Startup Volume is not mounted.

When you try to run fsck on reboot, you get a warning that it is a journaling file system and then an option to force the fsck.

I am not sure if journaling compromises the ability to fsck at reboot. Anyone?

[geekwagon]

Originally posted by MasonMcD:
Woah! Do the exposé thing, then hit the tilde/accent key on the keyboard.

What the hell action is that? Application window grouping? Freaks me out with a lot of apps open, and I go fast.

Sorry I can't do a screengrab on it.

For me, it switches from "all windows" exposé to "application" exposé. Tab and tick both go through the applications, but in reverse order of each other. That actually kicks butt.

Exposé is the coolest window management trick I have ever seen, not just from a visual perspective but in actual usability. I *never* would have thought of it though.

[MasonMcD]

Originally posted by geekwagon:
For me, it switches from "all windows" exposé to "application" exposé. Tab and tick both go through the applications, but in reverse order of each other. That actually kicks butt.

Exposé is the coolest window management trick I have ever seen, not just from a visual perspective but in actual usability. I *never* would have thought of it though.

I thought it was something like that. Though on some of the windows when cycling through, it groups more than one apps' windows together with this little grouping swoosh, with one apps' windows in the back of the other app that's in focus. If that makes any sense.

Sort of like cycling through the apps, but bringing more than one app in focus, then doing a little Esther Williams synchronized swimming move. Weird.

[Busemann]

Originally posted by MasonMcD:
Woah! Do the exposé thing, then hit the tilde/accent key on the keyboard.

What the hell action is that? Application window grouping? Freaks me out with a lot of apps open, and I go fast.

Sorry I can't do a screengrab on it.

Cool!

hit the "-" & "=" keys to reduse the amount of black/white color in the background too.

Does anyone knows how to reset the thing though?

[ShotgunEd]

that increasing and decreasing dimming thing seems to take effect even when you arent exposéd. I mean the desktop will always be black if you dim it right down.

B turns the dimming on and off. Is that what you meant by 'resetting' it?

[retroneo]

Originally posted by Eriamjh:
This has never been possible. Not with OS9, not witgh OSX, not with Disk Utility, not with Norton. However, you can still fsck in single user mode upon boot (and maybe through the terminal... I'm not a Unix Xpert).

Earth calling Eriamjh:

OS 9 and OS 8.5 onwards let you repair the startup disk, in the application Disk First Aid.

All versions of Mac OS X automatically check AND REPAIR the startup disk if it was not shutdown correctly and Journalling is OFF. This feature can NOT be turned off using the GUI. If journalling is on, it simply replays the Journal. Either of these sequences of events are done when the Apple logo and the twirling frondare displayed.



By default, a similar feature is enabled in Mac OS 8.5 onward, however it can be turned off in the General Control Panel. However, Mac OS 8/9 Disk First Aid is not as Powerful as Mac OS X's.

[retroneo]