Basic Frustrations

[mymacsucks]

1. I finally found the setting to make each new Finder window open in a separate window. I didn't see it anywhere in the "System Preferences" section that is a very stripped down version of the tool called "Control Panel" that used to appear underneath the brightly colored Apple logo at the top of the screen. It was inside of a preferences setting

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[kakaze]

So you're the one behind this blog, acpizza.

Finder preferences are in Finder's preferences...not system preferences.

Apple supports those same commands but using the "command" key.

The colour fringing, as I said in the thread, is most likely your monitor. I've never seen fringing that bad before on any Mac.

The "actual size" of your image is 8.5x11. When viewing an 8.5x11 image at 72dpi it comes out out to 612x792 pixels. Instead try scaling the image to 100 percent.

[mymacsucks]

The purpose of this blog is to complain about everything that doesn't meet the very high expectations I had set when I became a Macintosh owner in the early nineties. Basically, anything that doesn't meet the then excellent standards of user-friendliness and crisp tool design that were applied to literally every aspect of the operating system. With Resource Editor and a complier, a person could program in assembly, C, or any other language without ever touching the command line.

Files had creator types in addition to filetypes back then. Today, I am offered the choice to "hide extensions" in the names from files that the OS recognizes.

The image wasn't being displayed "actual size" in terms of inches either, it looked far, far too small for it to be actual size in inches. That leaves pixels as the other choice, right? I mean, it can't be both... and the mac sucked the name of my monitor right out of the cable itself, as well as a bunch of parameters, so it knows exactly what I'm looking at and how big it is. This would not be such

[kakaze]

My experience with classic Macs are limited, however, if it's programming you want, XCode, from everything I've heard, is user friendly. You should be able to programme, compile, and debug all from XCode without needing the CLI

[possibilities]

If you've ever found a way to fix #4, I would love you forever if you shared. Because that frustrates me to no end. I especially like how, after you hit that with a big image, even 100x100px images are zoomed out to about 40x40px when you click "Actual Size". I have to quite Preview, then re-open the small image (without going anywhere near the big ones!) to have a hope of seeing it properly.

I bought into the Mac-hype when I got my iMac. The result? I think I've developed RSI from my reflexive angry-twitch at any Apple advertisments. Liars.

[mymacsucks]

Actually I gave up finally and installed Gimp which means first I had to install X11 off of the Apple CD. But, Gimp has a set of views that totally match correctly. Gimp will also let you change the DPI setting of the image.

I don't know why the Preview program miscalculates the "Actual size" when it looks at the DPI of the image, if thats even what its doing. Perhaps the Mac doesn't deal well with my monitors dots-per-inch, but I can tell that it did read that data out of my Mac's screen by looking at the info.

Maybe it will be better integrated in the future.

I just wish that there was an option to click for "Pixel per pixel", even if nothing else changed.

[mymacsucks]

In the "Preview" program, there is a checkbox option I just discovered..

Preview - Preferences - Images - Respect image DPI for "Actual Size"

Just uncheck it and the problem is solved, and the system runs in pixel-per-pixel mode.

I appreciate that if the mac tried to display everything in actual DPI instead of 72DPI that a lot of stuff would look just plain wrong, and thats probably why the DPI of 86 1/4 computed by (sqrt(1280^2+1024^2))/19" is ignored; I imagine if the system can figure out my monitor size, that thats the sort of info that would determine stuff at the system rather than image viewer level anyways... oh well.