Both effects are demonstrated (with a repositioned Dock) in Apple's Mac OS X theater. This effect is much less processor intensive than the flashy "genie" effect, and therefore completes in less time, making window minimization feel snappier. When the "scale" effect is selected, minimizing a window scales it uniformly while moving it towards its eventual position in the Dock. 10.1 now gives the position (left, right, or bottom) and animation (genie or scale) options their own GUI in both System Preferences and the Docks's pop-up menu (both shown below). The "changes" to the Dock preferences are in a similar vein: they're all features that existed in 10.0.x, but were only accessible indirectly. As in Mac OS 9, the ability to have both scroll arrows at both ends is not accessible via the GUI, but is possible through other means. Font smoothing (antialiasing) can now be turned off below a certain font size threshold:Īlso note the option to use traditional scroll arrows (one on the top and one on the bottom) or to combine the arrows (both arrows grouped together on the bottom or right side of the scroll bar). The General preference panel includes a new option to set the number of recent applications and documents (5-50) that will be displayed in the corresponding items in the Apple menu. Users shouldn't need to know which application controls the desktop area. It makes more sense in System Preferences. The Desktop preference panel, used to set the desktop background, is a new immigrant to System Preferences, coming from its former home in the Finder's application preferences. System Preferences may be on the same evolutionary road as the classic Mac OS Control Panel: starting as a monolithic application, gaining organization and extensibility slowly, and eventually turning into a "special folder" containing individual control panel applications, deferring organization to the user via the Finder's usual file management interface. Why is QuickTime under "Internet & Network"? Why is Login under "Personal"? (It contains personal settings for login items, but also allows the system-wide login behavior to be changed.) Overall, it's an improvement, but a more extensible (and user-configurable) organization scheme would be even better. While the grouping has made finding a particular icon easier than in the ungrouped, alphabetical list in the 10.0.x version, the groups seem a bit loose to me. ![]() The System Preferences application in 10.1 reorganizes the previously alphabetical list of preference panels into groups:
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