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Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like

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TaliesinSoft:
> >> First: I like the new form of Spotlight which makes it so much easier
> >> to see exactly what it is going to do.
> >>
> >> Second: I also like the new appearance of the dock which is just
> >> cleaner in appeaarance. I'm one who is somewhat of a minimalist in that
> >> my dock only shows the currently open applications along with Finder
> >> and Trash. I have the dock centered at the bottom of the screen and
> >> configured to not be seen unless selected.
> >>
> >> Third: I like the dark menu with the white lettering along with the
> >> blue accent which highlights the current selectable item. This menu
> >> color scheme haarmonizes nicely with my screen background which is a
> >> picture of a cloud formation.

Davoud:
> > Bzzzzt! That was three, not two!
> >
> > Fact is, everyone but the whiners will like Yosemite. The whiners will
> > be asking if their new iMac can go back to System 6, back to the days
> > when Macs were Macs.

Lloyd Parsons:
> Whiner checking in...

> I like lots of things about Yosemite and how all the things will come
> together with iOS's new version.  BUT, I'm not enamored at all with the look
> and feel of it, no more than I am with iOS7.  Whoever thought the default
> system fonts should be that thin needs a remedial class in readability.  Not
> to mention the overuse of pale colors and then use shadings of tho
> se pale colors to delineate between sections.  Pure idiocy imo.

> The overall flatness isn't anything good either, but it isn't bad enough that
> I actually care.

> I'll be switching back from the open Beta soon and will continue to run ML
> until the actual release of Yosemite.  IF some much needed look and feel
> changes are made in the actual release I will upgrade.  If not, I'll be
> deciding which OS I'll switch to.  Fortunately for me all of this is just
> toys to play with so it really isn't a big thing to change for the most
> part.

My experience with the Mac, which goes back to late 1985, is that if
I'm not entirely happy with the look and feel of a new OS I soon become
accustomed to it and soon enough forget what it was I didn't like about
it. The same goes for new software versions, whether from Apple or
other developers.

32 years of living in the so-called Third World (S.E. Asia, the Muddle
East, and East Africa) made me quite flexible and more prone to adapt
than to complain. One place has no water, another no electricity,
another has neither. Next place I get a pretty nice mud-brick house
with glass in the windows and an earthquake knocks it down. Next place
my office is shabby, but that's not a problem because the PFLP blows it
up in a rocket attack and it gets rebuilt. My Mac Plus survives. Adapt
or find a less interesting life.

I can't forget what I don't like about that other popular OS, however.
It fails utterly for me as a tool, and as a toy it's no fun because it
seems as if there is always something broken and I prefer to spend my
time playing with my toys, not trying to fix them.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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Two Yosemite Features I Like TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2014-08-03 22:18 -0500
  Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-04 18:23 -0400
    Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Lloyd Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-08-04 17:50 -0500
      Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-04 19:59 -0400
      Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-08-05 14:14 +1200
    Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-08-05 09:56 +1000
      Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-08-04 21:58 -0500
        Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-08-05 17:15 +1200
    Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 20:10 -0400
      Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-05 06:35 -0400
        Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 07:09 -0400
          Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-08-05 10:15 -0700
            Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-05 17:37 -0400
            Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 18:18 -0400
          Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-05 17:11 -0400
            Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 18:22 -0400

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