The Appearance preferences under System
Preferences enable you to change text color, highlights, scroll
bar functionality, recent item preferences, and
text smoothing. In previous versions of OS X to Panther, this was known as
"General Preferences".
Setting the options:
"Appearance" sets the color
for buttons, scroll bars, menus, and windows for the OS and applications.
"Highlight Color" sets the color for highlighted fields in text documents,
web pages, lists.
"Place Scroll Arrows" dictates where the scroll arrows
are located.
At top and
bottom
Together
Click in the scroll bar to:
"Jump to the next
page" will scroll to the next window or page of the document
"Scroll to here"
scrolls to the relative position in the document. So if you clicked halfway
down you would scroll halfway through the document.
Use
smooth scrolling
Will scroll the contents smoothly without jumping.
Minimize
when double clicking a window title bar minimizes a window to the dock when
you double click the toolbar.
Number of recent items
Will set the number
of items you want the OS to consider recent when displaying recent Applications
and Documents.
You
can set this
from 0 to 50. Recent items are a submenu of the Apple Menu
Font
smoothing style
Determines how the OS will smooth the text. Turn off text
smoothing for font sizes * and smaller. The smaller the number the more font
smoothing will be done.
