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~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

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Re: ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

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Post by Evbn »

dasil003 wrote: post #52
swdunlop wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So was unilaterally setting it to the 10.7 standard. I think we should have the script flip a coin so people are annoyed evenly.

It's not arbitrary though. The point was to move away from the metaphor of moving the window around a document to just manipulating the document directly as you do in iOS. Granted it's not as obviously the right thing when touch is not involved, but it is the right thing.

Why did no one notice the supposed wrong behavior in 10.6? No one is fingering their OS X displays.

Re: ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

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Post by Evbn »

CountSessine wrote: post #18
scott_s wrote: post #12

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fredsted's point is that it is not that. It's largely one person's personal preferences. I agree there's some good stuff in there, but there's also a lot I wouldn't like. I don't think it's a superset, just a set.

But how else would you describe a superset? I hate the glass dock and have hated it since 10.5 when it was introduced. You might like it and you'll stick with the default behaviour. For me it's a useful tweak. For you, you can live without it. It's not a superset of preferences - it's a superset of tweaks. Some of them you won't like, some of them are quite nice and this is a good place to find them all. Or did you m…

Thank you for sharing. Sorry you triggered an avalanche of whining from the "ugh. This free stuff isn't exactly how I'd do it if I weren't so lazy and I actually did something" brigade.

Re: ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

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Post by mathias »

kjbekkelund wrote: post #57
lovskogen wrote: post #50

It would be great to have a script that setup your machine with all settings, is there a list of all "defaults write" commands somewhere?

Check out http://secrets.blacktree.com/

Sadly, most of those are outdated. :(

Re: ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

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Post by mathias »

kcl wrote: post #26
brennenHN wrote: post #2

That's a long list. I kind of want to run the whole thing just to see what happens...

I wouldn't run the whole script blindly. You will have to do more than one linear pass through the script to find and invert settings you later discover you don't like. I recommend one close readthrough, uncommenting or commenting things you do or don't like, and then a full run. I do recommend running the script after a careful edit. It will save you time.

As the author of ~/.osx, I agree. Never blindly copy anyone else’s settings. Heck, never blindly copy _anything_.

Re: ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

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Post by Tyr42 »

swdunlop wrote: post #41
irons wrote: post #25

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Unilaterally resetting the scroll direction to the 10.6 standard is insanely presumptuous.

So was unilaterally setting it to the 10.7 standard. I think we should have the script flip a coin so people are annoyed evenly.

I has messing around with it, and had another application reverse it for just the mouse, and then it got reset or something, and now I don't know which way is the correct way. I think there's a triple negative in the settings. I flipped it again, thinking it was backwards, but not it still feels backwards. Nothing is right anymore. I'll just set it to whatever windows has it, so it's the same when I boot into that.

Re: ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

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Post by Tyr42 »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #64
msbarnett wrote: post #28

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> Completely agree - but someone has to keep this compendium somewhere, and why not keep it as a piece of working code, rather than as a web page or something? I think this would make sense if it was a compendium, but this is an arbitrary subset of everything you could possibly set via defaults, with no rhyme nor reason to what is and isn't in the list other than "this particular guy cares about these particular thin…

Not when you confirm the dialog over and over to the point of being conditioned to it - when confirmation becomes an automatic response on the users part, it's no longer serving them.

But it's not. At least, I only see that after a reinstall, or maybe once a month, when I want to install something cool and new.

Re: ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

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Post by dasil003 »

Evbn wrote: post #71
dasil003 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not arbitrary though. The point was to move away from the metaphor of moving the window around a document to just manipulating the document directly as you do in iOS. Granted it's not as obviously the right thing when touch is not involved, but it is the right thing.

Why did no one notice the supposed wrong behavior in 10.6? No one is fingering their OS X displays.

You've answered your own question.

The last time someone really thought about scroll direction was when they invented the scroll wheel. The implementors associated it with the motion of the position indicator in the scrollbar rather than the motion of the document. The reason this is wrong is because it's an unnecessary indirection from the document itself. At the time computers could not documents quickly enough to have any kind of physicality, so the scrollbar + indicator were critical UI elements simply for performance reasons (ie. the scrollbar is what could be drawn fast enough to enable responsive dragging, and the window wouldn't redraw til you let go). Once people got used to it, there was no reason to question it until the modernization of touch interfaces where suddenly the inconsistency became apparent.

Re: ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

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Post by mehrdada »

gurkendoktor wrote: post #49
irons wrote: post #25

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Unilaterally resetting the scroll direction to the 10.6 standard is insanely presumptuous.

I much prefer natural scrolling, but the 10.6 standard has the same thing going for it as vim: it works everywhere. I gave up trying to reverse the scrolling in Windows with AutoHotkey, it was a mess. :(

WizMouse has been working quite well for me on Windows.

Re: ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

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Post by Evbn »

msbarnett wrote: post #73
Evbn wrote: post #70

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Named .txt?

Surely nobody with malicious intentions would ever try to trick you.

They would do a pretty bad job of harming me by addng and extension that makes me view the source of a malware script in TextEdit instead of executing it.
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