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New iCal and iSync


blech:

New iCal and iSync


posted on 2003/10/09 09:15

 

Chris has some good points. I've never really been let down by iSync, but then I barely ever use it.


 

Oddly, it seems that Panther installs iSync via Software Update.


 

Or so I hear, anyway. cough


 

[ 0 days, 1 hour later ]


 

Other oddness. If you let iSync launch Software Update, the iSync updates are found.


 

iCal 1.5.1 has a new metal appearance that Unsanity's Metallifizer seems unable to deal with.


 

On the plus side, it does let you set custom calendar colours, and the use of drawers is probably a bit better than the floating palettes.


 

It's a bit faster for me, but until I can demetallise it, it's not going to stay launched for very long.


 

[ 0 days, 6 hours later ]


 

(after Sven's comments and reading Macintouch)


 

Nice thing: custom colours for calendars.


 

Not nice thing: you can't have different time zones at either end of an event. Like, say, a flight.


jerakeen:

Look, the .ics format is painful enough already, thank you very much. :-)


blech:

I suppose you just have to work out how long the flight is really.


 

I wish it didn't swap the window size depending which mode it's in.


 

That's hardly a new complaint, though.


 

jerakeen just noticed that, unlike Cocoa apps, opening a drawer when it won't fit on the screen *doesn't* force the main app window to be smaller.


jerakeen:

I really don't like the title bar timezone


 

widget.


blech:

It could be that the custom timezone dropdown widget, the broken drawers, and the persistent metal are all signs of seriously custom window management.


 

Bad Apple.


jerakeen:

Yah, this essentially does not feel to me like a cocoa application. Bad thing. It's better, but overall, it's still to slow and annoying for to actually be prepared to use it.


blech:

Hmm. Turning off (de)Metallifizer stops the transparency artefacts Sven mentions.



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