Thanks.

CPAN command does not work. Make does not work....

Did you install the developer tools? Because everything just worked for me… but you need the developer tools.

CPAN command does not work. Make does not work....

Thanks for any help.

Totally agree with you about the firewall. What have  done to it?

I'm a tech-savvy guy and I loved the old firewall GUI. Like you say, it's easy to see at a glance what is and isn't allowed. This new GUI is a joke to say the least, I still don't understand if it's on or off!

And Skype won't work either. Grrrrrr.

Stacks would be far less irritating if there was an option to turn them off

Ha ha ha ha. Uh, yes, it would be, I agree! :-D

By far, my favorite two new features on Leopard are Spaces and Spotlight Launching. I have used virtual desktop tools since I was a little kid running Linux, and I actually have six spaces configured (as I have for about 4 years now using third-party tools). Its not hard to keep track of in your head at all, once you get used to it. My spaces are as follows:

1. Chatting: iChat and Colloquoy.
2. News: NetNewsWire (I like Cyndicate, but it doesn't sync with my iPhone).
3. Browsing: OmniWeb
4. Coding: TextMate and a large tabbed terminal.
5. Testing: Safari and Firefox with Firebug for web apps, another terminal, etc.
6. Email: Mail

Spaces still has lots of warts though... its too hard to move things between Spaces, the stickiness options are not granular enough, and there are some bizarre choices with Spaces interaction with the Dock (minimize a window, change spaces, and unminimize, and it moves you back to the old space instead of bringing the window into the active space, lots of other things too).

Stacks would be far less irritating if there was an option to turn them off, so I could have a folder in the dock and have it behave like a folder.

Anyway, good little review!

The window look is not my favorite (I would have preferred colors more similar to Tiger) but it's ok. I love the way textured windows no longer look much different from non-textured windows. brushed metal was getting really old.

the close/minimize/zoom widgets changed in the last few seeds... they used to use the old Tiger bitmaps, but recently switched to something more similar to the vector art which they use when the scaling factor is not 1.0. (In some seeds it was a bit of a jarring switch when the scaling factor changed.. it's pretty consistent now) I've gotten used to it. You will too, pretty quickly. Apple messes with them in just about every major release of Mac OS X anyway. (try running the old Windows Media Player if you want a good laugh)

I have no idea what the new firewall settings are supposed to mean. It makes no sense to me. In the seeds I assumed it was a placeholder while they developed the real UI. (Several other preference panes went through major changes and had non-functional placeholders in some seeds.) I guess I was wrong. Yuck. They need to fix this.

I like the stacks, but they need some work. Mouse tracking for them was broken in some seeds, but it's better now. I'd like to see a way to have multiple "pages" of icons for big grid views, and maybe a way to get into subdirectories. And besides "Fan" and Grid" they really, really need a "Menu" option for getting Puma-Tiger behavior. I like the new behavior for some directories (such as downloads, where it's useful to be able to drag icons out of the downloads folder and into where I want to store them permanently.. you can't do that with a menu) but I'd like to have a way to have menus for some directories.

Oh, and stacks should have some sort of distinctive icon. Maybe a half-open folder with the contents spilling out? Just showing the contents is bad.

Overall I really like Leopard. Go read the AppKit and Foundation release notes. Lots of good stuff there. ImageKit is useful. And Core Animation is just plain fun.

Most of the broken things should be pretty easy to fix. X11 has a long list of problems, but I imagine it'll be fixed soon. SSH's new Keychain integration has a few minor flaws as well, but it too should be fixed.

And unlike 10.4.0, it's pretty stable.

You can adjust the background transparency for Terminal.app in Preferences > Settings > Window and click the Color chip in the Background section to get the Color Picker and adjust the opacity there.

Yes, I know, but I'm asking if anyone knows how to set the background color transparency via AppleScript. As the linked-to post says, I have a few hooked up to keyboard shortcuts via FastScripts.

Damon Jones said on October 31, 2007:

Also, if you hate iChat, you'll be pleased to know that you can run Screen Sharing independently, either by launching the app

Yes, there's an app in /System/Library/CoreServices. I've even put an alias to it in /Applications so LaunchBar can find it. I just saw this tip on MacOSXHints.com.