Hi,
I'm a proud Mac OS X user. I like Lime Wire and have been
recommending it to friends. I found that I didn't like the latest
release for Mac OS X that much though. I think it makes use of the
swing interface. Well, it definately looked and felt different!
Besides now matching all my other "Aqua" applications, it seemed
to have very slow screen redraws. The bottom of the window by the
"Connect/Disconnect" button seemed to be drawing over it self.
Eveything seemed to be running slow. I know that some of this has to
do with Mac OS X and Apple's attempt to release a pretty operating
system before a _fast_ and pretty operating system ( the next update is
supposed to fix most everything ). I did some research though and was
quickly able to fix almost everything that I thought was less than
perfect about this latest LimeWire release just be editing the
"LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/MRJApp.properties" file!
I changed the last part of the file from :
com.apple.mrj.application.growbox.intrudes=false
to:
#com.apple.mrj.application.growbox.intrudes=false
com.apple.mrj.application.growbox.intrudes=true
com.apple.mrj.application.live-resize=false
com.apple.macos.useScreenMenuBar=true
com.apple.macosx.AntiAliasedTextOn=false
com.apple.macosx.AntiAliasedGraphicsOn=false
Now the program doesn't show off Mac OS 10.0's horrible 2-D drawing
since the "live-resize" is set to false. This makes resizing the
window much nicer. (Note this should be no longer necessary after Mac
OS 10.1 fixes the 2-D drawing problems in September ) The
"useScreenMenuBar" option is just too cool! It puts all of the
LimeWire menus up at the top menu bar, just like any other MacOS
program! Having the menus in the same window as the rest of the
application just screams to Mac users that this is a program what was
not designed for them. I think the reason for this is because of a
built up "motion memory" of going to a certain place to access menus.
In Windows it's at the top of the current window, for Mac users it's at
the top of the screen to access the same menu bar that's in every
application.
I also set the Anti Aliasing to false because the program just
generally felt slow, and I thought this might speed things up. Well it
still looks beautiful and feels faster. The "growbox intrudes" option
seems to fix some odd redraw bugs that I mentioned earlier where the
status indicator and Connect/Disconnect button seemed to be drawing
over it self, re-filling the area that would be created if the growbox
Did Not intrude. Basically this seems to fix problems and makes it
more like the other Mac OS X apps too!
Well I just wanted to let you people know about how vastly improved
LimeWire seems to be after the small changes I made. I suggest you
strongly consider making these changes in the next release of LimeWire
for Mac OS X.
- Tom Hackett
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