Page command controllermate mac os x#
Page command controllermate mac#

Those who love the UI wouldn’t have it any other way and so, they don’t really care. Wanna theme those windows? No way! As with most things in life, this has two sides of the coin. You can’t change the fonts used or the size. Sure, you can change the selection colour and the size of the dock, but that’s about it. Hence, the purposeful limiting of user customizability. You can only feel at home if you are familiar with the interface.

Page command controllermate mac#

I suppose the mindset is probably something to the effect that any user should be able to use a Mac and feel at home. Of course, the Mac platform has always been about doing things one way. Or perhaps, it’s tantamount to setting your display resolution to 1024×768 no matter what resolution your panel supports. How can it do this when they’ve purposely crippled the control panel to not allow customization to ones liking in even something as primal as the mouse movement? To me, this is tantamount to fixing the key repeat delay to 5 seconds at a rate of 10 characters per second and purposely not providing a vehicle to change the setting.

But to me, something is wrong! The Mac platform is supposed to be providing the best user experience out of all operating systems. Many people have reported this problem and, likewise, equally many people have probably posted to say that nothing is wrong. I came back with the advent of Tiger where it was first reported that the mouse acceleration problem existed. Somewhere between System 7 and OS X, I stopped using Macs. Back in the days of System 6 (6.1.3 was when I first got my own Mac-a MacSE), the mouse movement was normal. Now before critics slam me for this post, I should point out that this mouse movement wasn’t always a problem. I might add that as good as USB Overdrive is, the movement still doesn’t feel quite right.

I struggled long and hard to adapt to the mouse acceleration curve but after a few months, I simply couldn’t handle it anymore and used USB Overdrive to alter the mouse movement behaviour. There are, no doubt, proponents of the movement that will say that this is the proper behaviour and that Apple got it right while everyone else screwed up but I disagree. The mouse acceleration and movement is simply too erratic and not very smooth compared to the Windows and Linux motions.

Page command controllermate mac os x#

Ever since Mac OS X 10.4, Apple did a disservice to the computing community by severely crippling the mouse movement behaviour.