[geeks] Leopard 10.5.1 Update now available

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Nov 18, 2007, at 4:55 AM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:19:23AM +0100, from at fu3.org wrote:
>> Yes, painless as expected. :)
>
> No problems with 10.5.1 on the Mini (PPC G4 1.25Ghz) at work or the  
> iMac
> (20" Core Duo) here at home.  Haven't reinstalled the Macbook yet to  
> put
> 10.5 on it because I've been busy and I only use it when I travel.

I spoke too soon.

Now I've had three different applications hang in one of their dialogs.

I forget the first, but one that does it all the time is SnapScan from  
Fujitsu.

If you go into settings and try to add an application or change where  
new scans are saved, the file selection dialog sheet comes down, and  
then hangs.  The default button glows and you can move the dialog  
window around, but it will never respond to keyboard or mouse and the  
app must be force-quit.

I saw the same think with iBank's Kagi screen.

The other application I cannot remember also hangs in the file  
selection dialog.

There is no heavy disk activity or anything like that when this happens.

I have noticed that a couple of applications needed updating for  
Leopard in terms of basic/fundamental GUI widgets.

For example, in iBank you could not drag column headers in a scrolling  
table widget to re-arrange them until they released an update.

That kinda sucks, having basic widgets stop working, although it seems  
to have been very few apps affected.

I can't really see why they would change low level widgets like that,  
unless it was part of the overall code cleanup in moving to 64-bit and  
the new Core* features.

Of course, I used Vista and had more problems in one hour than I've  
had with Leopard in the last two weeks, so as updates go this has been  
smoother than any Windows or Linux/KDE/Gnome upgrade I've ever done.

But since it is Apple stuff, I get to bitch about it anyway... :)



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