[X4U] Tiger Apr 29th

[Jim Freeman]

Daniel,

Thanks for responding to my comments on Location x. Let me see if I can 
remember some of the quirks. I have to quit Mail before switching 
locations, which is annoying. Location X crashes or goes haywire every 
once in a while. The menu bar icon will be stuck or it will disappear 
and I will need to relaunch the application. I'm sorry I can't be more 
specific about that. I have a hard time saving changes to a particular 
location. Maybe it's me or maybe the interface is not intuitive enough. 
So in Mail in one of my locations I have all three of my e-mail 
accounts listed, but only two in the other. I haven't had time to 
explore that problem. Again in Mail, for a while I couldn't get my 
customized toolbar, window size, orientation, columns, which mailbox 
triangles are open - any of those little customizations to stick. I 
would make the changes and whenever I switched location the changes 
would be lost. Eventually I was able to solve that problem, but it 
wasn't obvious and I don't even remember how I did it.

Basically it works. I use it everyday. But I feel like it needs 
refinement or better integration into the operating system. Or I need 
to put in some time reading the manuel and figuring this program out, 
which I shouldn't have to do.

Jim

On 13-Apr-05, at 11:09 PM, Daniel Beck wrote:

> On Apr 14, 2005, at 1:20 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:
>
>> I still miss having a location switcher that will change things like 
>> smtp address and default printer when I move my laptop from home to 
>> work. I use Location X, but there are problems.
>
> Like?
>
> I use Location X also. It's not perfect, but I'm curious as to what 
> you perceive are the problems.
>
> Daniel