Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Bread Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Losing my religion(?) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:09:10 -0700 Organization: lined up neatly Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <120820121955223103%star@sky.net> <5028a772$0$1490$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com> <502a8d39$0$61503$c3e8da3$38634283@news.astraweb.com> <140820121443399468%nospam@nospam.invalid> <7hivf9-bvu2.ln1@news1.chingola.ch> <0ukvf9-bvu2.ln1@news1.chingola.ch> <5eKdnRTVjJeEMrPNnZ2dnUVZ_gqdnZ2d@giganews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1345252150 23150 127.0.0.1 (18 Aug 2012 01:09:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:09:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Unison/2.1.9 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:29650 On 2012-08-18 00:13:35 +0000, Alan Browne said: > On 2012-08-17 19:19 , Bread wrote: >> On 2012-08-17 20:52:41 +0000, Alan Browne said: >> >>> On 2012-08-16 13:29 , Bread wrote: >>> >>>> Now what I'm trying to find is how to turn auto-lock back ON in Mountain >>>> lion. It's no longer there in Time Machine prefs (which was a goofy >>>> place for it in the first place). >>> >>> OS X is beginning to have a lot of goofiness. >>> >>> I wish OS X had an OS-X-Manifest of settings application to checklist >>> and adjust system parameters at the user and admin level. It's getting >>> progressively more difficult to diagnose problems and/or find a >>> particular setting. >> >> http://secrets.blacktree.com >> >> It hasn't, apparently, been updated to reflect Mountain Lion, but it's >> pretty awesome. > > When I wrote the above I included and then edited out "(not 3rd party > apps!)". I guess it should have stayed. > > OS X could just benefit from its own, built in, "manifest" of settings > app that is always up to date wrt to the version on the user's machine. You'll note, I hope, that Secrets is two things - one is an online database of settings (take a look at the website) - and the other is a prefPane which lets you adjust those settings via GUI. If you don't want to use a third-party app or prefPane, all those things at Secrets have the command-line to access them directly. For example, to switch from the (hideous IMHO) 3-D dock to the 2-D dock, you do this: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -float If you just mean, wouldn't it be nice if Apple would just *document* this crap so we don't have to have sites like Secrets dig them up or have to find them and share them on Usenet, that much I'll certainly agree with you about. I suspect some of this is scattered through Apple's developer documentation, but a nice central listing would be very helpful. While it would be nice to have Apple provide GUI access to much of this, I can understand why they wouldn't, at least not by default. There are just too many possible options and Prefs would become hideously messy. Maybe just an "advanced" panel or something would be good.