Curiouser and Curiouser! on gripes http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic gripes Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Display resolution gripe Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:05:26 +0100 <p>Since I seem to be grousing about MacOSX glitches at the moment let me add another: <strong>Why is it that MacOSX keeps intermittently choosing the wrong resolution for my 2nd display, no matter how many times I correct it?</strong></p> <p>I have a ViewSonic VE702m 17" LCD monitor connected to my PowerBook and the PowerBook knows this (the Displays System Preference correctly identify the monitor model). It shows me all the right resolutions and yet, about every 5th or 6th time I hook it up it chooses 1024x768 instead of the native 1280x1024 resolution.</p> <p>It's the work of a few moments to correct it but it bugs me a little more each time it happens.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002940.html Griping about Interface Builder Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:05:37 +0100 <p>At the risk of becoming a proper <em>gripe monkey</em> how the hell do MacOS X developers get any work done!?!</p> <p>Interface Builder seems like a buggy piece of crap to me. Latest example: Whenever I use the <pre>Test Interface</pre> option, after I exit the scaffolding application, I end up with it's application menu embedded in the Interface Builder menu (only without a label) and, shortly thereafter, Interface Builder crashes. It's at Version 2.5 for goodness sake, you don't expect this kind of bug in a piece of software that's, what?, 3 years old!</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002942.html Putting the Dock in the dock Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:09:37 +0100 <p>Okay it's less of an issue now that I have <a href="http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/">Quicksilver</a> but I am pretty irritated with the way icons disappear off my MacOSX dock. I installed Microsoft Word yesterday, dragged the icon from Applications to the dock and it was fine, click it and up comes Word. It was certainly there yesterday afternoon. This morning when I looked for it the icon had gone!</p> <p>The principle of learned helplessness is beginning to kick in now. I'm thinking of removing <strong>all</strong> the icons from my dock so it doesn't compete, mentally, with Quicksilver.</p> <p>Is there a way to get rid of the dock altogether?</p> <p><em>Update</em>: So, more or less as soon as I posted I thought "oh what the heck, let's just get rid of all the dock icons" and proceeded to do just that. In the process I discovered that applications I had <em>removed</em> yesterday had come back! I had weeded out 3-4 apps I don't use often, those icons are in my dock this morning. Great. The stupid thing seems to be rolling back to a previous point. I wonder if it's related to <a href="http://matt.blogs.it/2005/09/23.html#a1999">all these Dock.App crashes</a> I see in the log.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00003031.html