[Ti] why people use a tibook

[Jacob Ritorto]

I apologize for the twist on this thread (supposed to be why we DO use
Macs, not why we don't..), but some months ago I finally abandoned my
Mac at work solely due to mouse focus.  I grew up on unix and X with
the 'focus follows mouse' convention and was so consistently losing
time and making dangerous errors (typing commands to wrong terminal,
etc.) that I had to give it up and go back to a real Sun desktop.
Does anyone know if there's a way to get 'focus follows mouse' on Mac
OS X? I searched and searched but the closest I came up with was a way
to do it *just* for X clients, not native Aqua windows.

thx
jake


On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Simon Royal <mail at simonroyal.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have always thought Mac screens were clear and crisp against Windows machines.
>
> Simon
>
> --- visit my Mac site at http://www.simonroyal.co.uk or Skype me at 'Simon-Royal' (sent using Nokia E71)
>
> -original message-
> Subject: Re: [Ti] why people use a tibook
> From: David Reaves <rrsounds at aol.com>
> Date: 26/03/2009 16:10
>
> As a bit of background, there is reasoning behind BOTH systems.
>
> Windows philosophy is that perceived sharpness is King. Mac design
> philosophy is that the perceived overall letter shape is of greater
> importance. Both systems allow you to customize the settings.
>
> Mac OS X includes settings for font rendering in its Appearance
> Preference Pane. This preference pane is the first icon in the top
> left corner of System Preferences. At the very bottom of the window
> you can specify “Font Smoothing Style” to be either Automatic,
> Standard, Light, Medium or Strong and minimum font size to be either
> 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 or 12 and above.
>
> I suspect many of those who "had to abandon mac and go the dark side"
> because of font rendering probably never considered looking in the
> System preferences.
>
> David Reaves
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:34:53 +1000, Clare O'Farrell <c.ofarrell at qut.edu.au
>  > wrote:
>> At 2:58 PM -0700 25/3/09, Tarik Bilgin wrote:
>>
>>> It sounds like smoothed fonts don't agree with your eyes. Mine seem
>>> to prefer it. I know you are not the only one though. I've heard
>>> many (mainly windows users) complain about this OS X feature.
>>
>> There are complaints from long term mac users too - a number of them
>> have had to abandon mac and go the dark side as a result. People have
>> lobbied Apple about this with no result.
>>
>>> As for the screens being too bright, I can turn the brightness right
>>> down on my LED display. Are you someone who prefers white on black
>>> to black on white displays?
>>
>> Turning the brightness down doesn't help neither does white on black.
>> I still use eudora for email and I have set the background colour to
>> pale yellow to avoid the stark contrast of black and white. On Apple
>> mail you can't change the working background colour unfortunately -
>> except for the person you are sending the email to.
>> --
>> regards
>> Clare
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