August 18, 2005
Tiger by the tale.
I finally installed Tiger this week. A little slow on the adoption curve? Perhaps. Overly cautious? Not in your life. The timeline to upgrading my OS is usually impacted more by available time between projects than it is about swimming in unknown waters. Transitioning from Panther to Tiger was extremely smooth. Frighteningly smooth, in fact. Especially considering that I performed a update over top of 10.3.9 with only a home directory backup. Living on a prayer. That’s me.
Aside from having to reset a few system preferences that had gone on a stroll after the update, adjustments to third-party programs were few and far between. Here’s what I did end up doing… I updated ICeCoffEE to fix my need to command-click plain text URLs in various applications. Version 1.4.2 is fully and completely Tiger-savvy. I had to disable iChatStatus as it finally stopped talking to iChat under Tiger. This was unfortunate, as I still think David Remahl’s solution for sending AppleScript-powered data to iChat is the easiest and most flexible way to do it. As a workaround, I rewrote portions of my custom iTunes to iChat status script so it can run as a stay-open applet, thus replacing the main function of iChatStatus. A lofty hat tip goes to Doug Adams for his rock steady Now Playing in iChat script, which gave me a more insight on working with on idle handlers than I could have dug up on my own.
I also discovered that Mail 2.0.x no longer supports editing of the subject lines of received messages. I assume that this has something to do with the fact that messages are now stored as individual files rather than in mbox format to facilitate Spotlight indexing. Regardless of the cause, my Edit Subject script is currently nonfunctional and Mail throws nary a warning that anything is amiss. I’ve posted a query to the MacScripter AppleScript Forums but have yet to hear a peep. The fact that someone in Cupertino decided to remove the application script menu from Mail is another butt-biter unto its own. By relegating Mail scripts to the system script menu, you can no longer attach custom shortcuts directly to individual Mail scripts (even though the current Mail help documents still state otherwise. What I’ve done to compensate for this idiocy is to install the Mail Act-On plug-in, which supplies a Quicksilver-like keystroke interface to mail rules. A mail rules can then call a specific AppleScript or other actions.
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