Mac stuff

Ok, so when was anyone on the Mac going to mention that the ringer and 
wallpaper views looked hideous and that it had nothing whatsoever to do 
with the watermarks, but was because the background is grey (or chrome 
or whatever it is called).  On Linux and Windows it is white.  On the 
Mac most windows have a white background so I don't know why my 
subclass of wx.ScrolledWindow doesn't.  I could just force it to white 
on Mac but would rather do it "properly".

BTW You could also have mentioned the hideous toolbar!

I also tried to make py2app use -OO for the files - it will save a 
considerable amount of space.  Unfortunately py2app breaks if optimise 
is turned on in any way.

I have upgraded my opinion of MacOS from user hostile to "tolerable to 
use".  It is like a somewhat more polished version of Gnome, but not 
that much more.  And it has all the annoyances of Windows (eg dumping 
what would be drive letters on your desktop, trying to hide the 
distinction between files, packages, executables and shortcuts) with 
the amateurishness of Linux (crappy help, bizarre preference settings, 
doing things in a non-obvious way), not to mention a spelling mistake 
or two here and there (I'll be the kettle to that pot :-)  The various 
idiotic error messages that Windows gives now and then also have 
counterparts in MacOS, as well as sporadic confirmation dialogs when 
they aren't needed, and no confirmation/undo at all in other places (eg 
many preference dialogs).

I was also amazed at just how primitive many of the apps are such as 
Mail or the Browser.  If I ever find out who decided that going to the 
very beginning or end of the file/window/document was more common than 
the beginning or end of the line and hence would map the home/end keys 
that way ...

Ah well, enough ranting.

The Palm Desktop app is at version 4.2 on Mac and 4.1 on Windows which 
goes a long way towards explaining why it behaves so differently.

Roger



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