Icône Deeper

General Panel

The General panel allows adjustment of global parameters.

Windows:

Arrows in Scroll Bar: Deeper allows you to choose among four types of arrows in window scroll bars. Select one of these options to modify the parameters immediately and relaunch the Finder; the applications already in memory must be relaunched to show the changes.

Speed of display of sheets: This option allows you to set the speed that a window's sheet is displayed. A sheet is a modal dialog attached to a window that asks for input from the user.

CrashReporter:

Mode of operation for CrashReporter: By default, when a application crashes, an alert message appears then you can relaunch the application and send a report to Apple. It's the basic mode of operation of Mac OS X, but two other modes exists. The Developer mode displays an alert message with miscellaneous debug information. The Server mode, enabled by default in Mac OS X Server, doesn’t display message but stores the crash reports in the Library/Logs/CrashReporter and Library/Logs/CrashReporter folder in your Home folder.

Network volumes :

Disable the .DS_Store files creation: This option allows you to prevent .DS_Store files creation on network volumes. By default, these files are invisibles under Mac OS X but not on other operating systems.

Screen Captures:

Screen capture format: This menu allows you to change the format (PNG by default) of Screen captures using the keyboard shortcuts. Choose the format desired among the ten current formats (PNG, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG2000, PDF, GIF, PICT, BMP, SGI et TGA).

Path: This field mean the full path of screenshots (The user Desktop, by default). To change this path, click the Select button, choose the desired folder and click the Choose button.

Name: You can choose the name of the screen captures typing the name desired in the Name field and clicking the Apply button.

Recent items:

Enable display of items in the File > Open Recent menu item of the applications: The majority of the applications which allow you to open documents have a "Open Recent" menu item in their File menu. By default, this submenu display the list of the ten last documents opened by the application. This function allows you to enable or disable display of this list. In the meantime, it's not applicable with certain applications (Photoshop, Golive, GraphicConverter...) because they use their own routine to store the recent items.

Number of recent items: This field allows you to set the maximum number of entries in the File > Open Recent menu item of the applications.

Number of Recent Places in Open/Save dialogs: This local menu allows you to display between 1 and 12 recent places (the default is 5) in the Open/Save dialogs.

Animated Desktop Background:

Animated Desktop Background: This option allows you to choose a Screen Saver among those installed by Mac OS X and start it like Desktop Background.

Downloaded applications:

Remove the alert message at first launch of downloaded applications: At first launch of an application downloaded from internet, an alert message appears. This message gives misc information on the source of the downloaded file and allows to possibly cancel launching. This option allows you to show or hide this alert message.

Preferences Panes:

Archives: This button launches the installation of a Archives Prefereneces panel allowing to modify settings of the "Archive Utility" application.

Processor: This button launches the installation of a Processor Prefereneces panel (Xcode must be installed).

Xcode is necessary to install the Processor panel. To uninstall a Prefereneces panel, click its icon with the right button of the mouse or by maintaining the Control key...

Click on Restore Defaults to cancel all modifications caused by Deeper or by another application. After execution, the parameters will be reset and the display will be the same as when the System and the applications were first installed.