Or reboot the machine into Mac OS X, which does not have this problem. Q: When I double-click a.cpp file to open it, I can't Build or Run it. Those buttons are grayed out.
Now that the Mac App Store has been snuck installed onto your machine alongside Mac OS X 10.6.6, you might be wondering – is there some way to remove from my Mac? While it’s not officially supported, it does seem like Apple has taken this scenario into account. The Mac App Store will most likely be accepted and used by most Mac users without much problems. Most people apparently don’t care about ugly and inconsistent user interfaces, and the added benefit of central control over your applications will most likely make those that do accept it as a necessary evil. However, there will inevitably be people like me who don’t want to have anything to do with the Mac App Store, and just want the damn thing to go away. Since I was looking into cleaning up my Mac anyway (I needed iTunes to go away, since I don’t use it and hate it with a passion), I decided to see what would happen if I were to remove the Mac App Store as well.
It’s quite easy to remove both iTunes and the Mac App Store; while Apple lists a, I just used, which seems to have worked just fine. I will still fine comb the file system with the 29-step guide by my side to make sure everything got deleted, though. Yes, Mac OS X looks good from a distance – but try and do something not approved by Cupertino and you’re in a world of hurt. I decided to delete the Mac App Store in the same way, and it seems as if it has worked.
You can just drag the Mac App Store binary onto the AppCleaner window, and it’ll find the associated files of the application outside of its bundle, and delete them as well. It seems as if Apple has somewhat thought of this scenario (maybe they had enterprise users in mind?), since upon reboot, the menu entry in the Apple menu has changed back to its pre-10.6.6 state, where it pointed to Apple’s Mac OS X software download page. However, as you can see in the shot below, upon trying to open an unsupported file type, the dialog still shows the newly added “Search App Store”-button. Clicking this button does nothing. Overall, I haven’t yet encountered any issues, but of course, this being unsupported means you could still potentially run into problems.
I am personally not happy with the Mac App Store being snuck onto my machine without any way of telling Software Update not to, or without an officially supported option to remove the darn thing. Well, Apple got one thing right. (Actually having the “find something to open this” implemented in a way that has at least some chance of working without being a 3rd-party website unknown to the users who need it) Ubuntu already suggests installable packages if you type an unrecognized command. (I think it’s a Debian feature they inherited but I’m not certain) It shouldn’t be too hard for someone already familiar with the system and the social environment of the Debian project to extend APT to index MimeType lines in.desktop files and extensionmimetype associations in whatever files hold those so a desktop association or patch can suggest installable handlers when you double-click an unrecognized file type.
Of course, on the other hand, “unrecognized” is a much smaller category on Linux, given that, if you don’t have extension-based handlers installed, most filetypes get picked up as Zip or GZip or XML or plaintext by the header check. Edited 2011-01-10 23:38 UTC. Hey, QT doesn’t break as many rules as this app does. QT doesnt center the window buttons! And what exactly is wrong with centering the window controls, especially on a Mac where they’re never going to be stuck to a screen corner?
I know they control the window itself rather than program functions, so they shouldn’t be confusable with action buttons, but looking completely different, being a matched set, having their color set system-wide, and reserving the leftmost area should be enough to accomplish that. And as for the other most common complaint – that back/forward match the title bar’s color – again, what’s actually wrong with that? The App Store is a prepared content showcase, much like a physical Apple Store, and making the app itself look boring (like an all-white room) is an effective way to put emphasis on the items on display. If your application looks ugly using Qt it is not Qt’s fault.
Qt uses Cocoa as backend when running in the Mac. As far as I know, Skype uses Qt on the Mac and it is a very nice application. I haven’t owned a Mac for a couple months now, but when last I used it Skype for the Mac wasn’t a QT application. Other than the mobile versions, it was the only one that hadn’t become QT-based yet.
Has this changed recently? As for QT using Cocoa, perhaps that’s true of later versions of QT, but there are a lot of early QT4 apps and all of the QT3 ones that sure as hell didn’t use Cocoa as their backend.
They didn’t act like Cocoa apps at all other than having the global menubar and basic window management. If QT actually uses Cocoa controls for its widgets now when possible, that’s a welcome change indeed.
A: The Skype UI is absolutely 100% pure native Cocoa, there is NO QT on Skype for Mac (source, have a friend who works there) Ok, I read that somewhere some time ago, but I could not assert that and I think your source is more valid than mine. B: QT technically only uses Cocoa to create a raw empty window. After that, it does all of its own event handling, drawing, etc. QT uses Cocoa almost exactly like opening a raw X11 drawable.
(source, looked at the QT source code) In this link: They say that they use the HIThemes API provided by Cocoa to render their widgets instead of using their own renderers. As a fellow QT hater, I get your point 馃檪 Thats pretty heretical language around here.
Such forbidden thoughts are liable to get one burned at the stake. Seems like the OSNews doctrine is: 1: Apple is evil, every comment should be directed towards taking the piss out of Apple. Steve Jobs is the Devil.
2: Its sometimes OK to to say negative things about Microsoft, but never in the same context as Apple. Specifically, is encouraged to say negative things about.net, as saying anything positive about.net would imply that QT is not perfect. 3: QT shall be revered above all else. QT is the alpha and the omega.
But it’s not beautiful either, it’s just an App. If the App Store ran slowly, then that would be a different story. The store allows you to install apps with no need to worry about serial keys, migration to other Macs you might have, the install process, upgrades and so on. What more could you want? (You know MS are hard at work trying do the same thing – I hope so anyway). If you want to see ugly, run a lot of Java Apps on the Mac, esp.
Those ported from other platforms. I think the UI works quite well and is obviously designed to be kept to a minimum.
As for consistency, if I remember correctly, the Mac App Store is designed with 10.7 in mind, so if anything, you will have a taste of what is to come now (just like FaceTime) The only concern I have is if this will become the.ONLY. way to install apps onto a Mac but to be honest, I’m not too worried about that. Let’s not start a linguistic war here, shall we? To the general public, “app” means something different than “computer program”, and why shouldn’t it? Since you’re one of the few here with this strange view, I wonder what you know about the general public?
If a member of the general public asks a sensible, knowledgeable, person what an “app” is, they will get the answer that “it’s short for computer application, that is, a computer program” and the general public will answer “Aha! Nice to know!”. You are right that was a rather bold, and somewhat unsubstantiated statement, but that’s at least what the Dutch media seem to use, and what I hear from people I interact with. Words change meanings, whether or not you like it. I I wonder what you know about the general public? Regarding that case, you have the chance to put it all stright by just referrering to Apple’s own application (since 2008) for trademarking the concept “App Store” – a place where you can buy COMPUTER SOFTWARE and other stuff for your phones, pods, pads and – COMPUTERS! I wanted to hate the App Store (probably been reading this site too much but honestly I mean, a few icons have moved position, big deal.
It does what it sets out to do, if it offends your eyes remove it from the dock. I browsed about and found 2 new (free) apps I was interested in and I installed them with no drama, and pleased I did. I’m on the verge of laying out money for a 3rd I discovered that otherwise would have gone unnoticed to me.
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So the developer is a winner too. I agree if you don’t want it, you should be able to uninstall in an easier fashion than perhaps currently, but apple/macos is by no means the worst OS in this regard. I’m a command line junkie for the majority of my work and home computing on linux and mac. However I’m more than happy to use anything that makes life simple and easy.
App store fits that model. I’m not sure if you’re trolling or not Anyway, Here’s how I “got rid of.” the App Store after browsing it a few times. Click-hold on the App Store icon that was deposited on my dock. Drag it up until it turned into a little “paper ball”/”poof” 3. Obviously I didn’t really remove it from my system, but if I did want to, I could drag it from the applications folder to the trash, and not need a keyboard shortcut. Though Thom’s way is more thorough, I find it’s easier to just get it out of my way. Yes, explicitly dragging an application from the application directory into the bin is the way to go.
And should IMHO be the only way to do it. I have a friend using OS X since 10.3 and he often has the problem of suddenly vanishing applications. But the way he is using his computer is quite “unique”. He clicks on everything that moves or opens. This sometimes yields into unwanted results. Maybe, he better should get a system from Sirius Cybernetics Corporation 馃槈 Because, for him, I am a computer expert per se, he thinks it is my duty to reinstall these applications.
At the moment this is my only relation to OS X. I read the original article the other day, the entire time just amazed at how people can get completely upset about the tiniest little thing. The App Store is FAR from being the worst piece of software I have ever seen, either functionally or aesthetically. And it works quite well, as I am quite familiar with its processes after having used iTunes and the App Store on my iPad/iPhone, with which I am also quite pleased and use them every day. And so, in MY opinion, which in reality is no less and no more valid than Thom’s, I must conclude that the subject of this original post is based solely on one person’s opinion of the aesthetics of an application, not the functionality.
App Store is NOT the only method to install software on one’s Mac, so if you don’t like it, don’t use it. It doesn’t take up enough space on today’s terabyte hard drives to even be noticeable. Remove the icon from your Dock that you find so objectionable also based on past posts and move on.please! Except that Thom has already stated here that he owns a MacBook Air with a small capacity. In an era where 2TB discs are common, having a 64GB ssd justifies that “search for space” I think.
It depends what he does with it. When I was not playing a lot of recent games nor storing large amounts of videos on my computer, its 60GB were more than enough. In fact, I had two OSs installed with 30 GB for each. On the other hand, now that Windows and OSX alone take more than 12 GB, when you add up a reasonably big music library (10GB) and some large third-party applications 30GB are certainly not enough anymore. So I wonder if for someone who crunches more disk space than me, 64 can be considered enough. The only monstrosity is how OS/News is going down hill. Thom was proven wrong even before he thought up this article.
How many apps have been downloaded on iDevices? The MacStore is going to be just as popular percentage wise (taking into account the number of devices for each platform). If you don’t want it, drag it off the Dock by holding your mouse button down and dragging it up and then let go. My guess, even if you don’t want to admit it, is that you’ll be using the MacStore to get applications.
Maybe not this week or next month but with a couple or a few months you will start getting more and more of your applications off the MacStore. How about some real articles. Edited 2011-01-11 20:37 UTC.