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Originally Posted by Gerard McLean 1. Ok, that drag thing kinda works. If I F11, then select the docs(s) on the desktop (move them slightly) and then press F9, drag to the window, hold down the space key to eliminate the spring-loaded folder delay(or wait or set lower) then I can drop the file onto a window, like an FTP dir, etc... I concede, this works... BUT I don't buy Macs to give my brain and digits that much contortion (exercise?) |
What I did was set one of my screen corners (lower-right in my case) to the Display Desktop effect of Espose. I don't have to play with all the F-keys, I just start dragging a file, drag it to the lower-right corner, Expose clicks in to show me the desktop (or if already at the desktop, to bring all my other windows back) and I move the file to where I want it. Much, much easier than using both hands and remembering which key combination does what.
As to your second point, personally I find MacOS X 10.3 to be lacking in many ways related to setting colors and fonts. My background is in IBM's OS/2 which had phenominal support for dragging and dropping both colors and fonts onto any window to change the window's display. If I wanted one window's title bar to use a cursive font, I dropped the font onto it (from OS/2's convenient Font Palette tool). If I wanted ALL windows to use the cursive font, I held ALT and dropped the font onto one of the windows from the Font Palette. And what's more, the user could setup Schemes with their own default fonts and colors for all items (title bars, menus, folder background color and image).
Windows has some small bit of this functionality but MacOS X seems to have none of it. It's something I really miss from my old OS/2 days, and something I can't imagine why MacOS X couldn't be made to support -- Quartz has got to be at least 5 times more modern and with more funding than OS/2's old Workplace Shell.
So I totally agree with you that OSX needs some user options for stuff like fonts and colors and title bar sizing, etc.