One feature that Leopard killed was rounded corners on the display. Roundyness is a left over from the old days of CRT. Unlike a green phospher 80×24 character the corners of the bezel made the 512×342 bitmap look wrong. Obviously a pointy corner next to a soft curve looks a lot like a circle in a box. Rounded corners made the Mac 128K very stylish. Yet it was an often unnoticed feature. Later when flat screens came in vogue in the middle 90’s the CRT often had a squared bezel. But the Mac didn’t follow that design keeping it like it always was.
It was likely a focus group of Windows notebook users that brought the corners up as a potentionial problem. Like somehow a display that is 1440×900 somehow isn’t really that big because its missing 6 pixels per corner. That some frivolous class action suit would be brought against Apple for falsely advertising screen size. Morons. The corner isn’t used for anything except as a target so who cares.
So this little app called Displaperture brings roundy corners back to Leopard. You’d think, “what’s the big deal about the corners” until you run it and see that yes indeed it fixes a problem that you didn’t even know was a problem until seeing the problem corrected. It’s the little things like roundy corners that make a Mac a Mac.Â
vectr on November 9th, 2007 at 2:28 am says:
I doesn’t play well with Spaces though. And I love Spaces now more than the rounded corners.
vectr on November 16th, 2007 at 1:55 am says:
I tell a lie. It works fine with Spaces.
I just needed to add it as a startup item in the Accounts section of System Preferences, and then add it to Spaces as open in “Every Space”.
Paul on November 18th, 2007 at 11:00 am says:
…only does it’s trick on the main display though.