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30 août 2009

“Snow Leopard’s System Preferences shuffle”

But the change many OS X users will really welcome is the capability to show the date in the menu bar, using the new Show Date option. Unfortunately, you can’t customize that date’s format; you’re stuck with Aug 28.

Oh, for crying out loud, Apple…

(I’ve set up the excellent iStat Menus to replace the OS X clock, and the part of the date I check most often is the day of the week.)

 

Unfortunately, [text substitutions] don’t (yet) work in all apps; for example, they work in Pages, TextEdit, and iChat, but not in BBEdit or Word. Developers need to add the right hooks in their software to gain this feature.

Huh. That kinda sucks. Pro: in the apps where it works, it’s going to be (well, I assume it is) so much more efficient and reliable than TextExpander. Con: it’s awfully confusing for the user to have such a basic system feature available in some apps and not others. (But then, it’s mostly for geeks, and geeks will quickly get used to knowing where they can and can’t use it.)

 

Another minor change from Leopard’s International pane: the Input Menu tab is now called Input Sources. And within that tab, there’s a new option that lets you select a different input source for each document.

And I have no idea what that means.

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pitulgi, il y a 5 ans :

Say you want to type something in Japanese in TextEdit, but keep your French keymap for Safari or iTunes: it was already possible to do that in Leopard, but apparently, you can now do that for different documents, instead of applications, in Snow Leopard. Don't really know if it's really useful though...

garoo, il y a 5 ans :

That's... the way I understood what was written, but I assumed it couldn't be right. I can't see on Leopard where you'd use a different keyboard for a different app (other than manually switching through the input menu).

rahina, il y a 5 ans :

Don't worry you can actually customise the date format: it is adjusted from Formats-tab of Language&Text. And some 3rd pt apps (probably ones using textedit's engine) already support substitutions. Though I'm not giving up TextExpander yet; substitutions don't support line brakes, but hopefully in the future.

garoo, il y a 5 ans :

As for customizing the date format, that's almost as much of a hack as when people changed the time format so that it would display the date in the menu bar of older versions: if you change the "short date" format, it will have ripple effects far beyond the menu bar. (It's particularly likely to break some apps' layouts if you set it to display a very long date string.)

According to one of the articles, you can enter line-breaks by pressing Alt-Enter, if I remember correctly (or pasting an existing multiline string into the preferences pane). What you're saying about compatibility makes more sense — I'd forgotten that there are many apps that don't actually use the standard rich-text engine. So in that case it becomes very cool that there's an API those apps can hook into.

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