Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

Option Description
Click in the scroll bar to This option affects the scroll behavior when you click in an empty
part of the scroll bar. Depending on your setting here, when you
click an empty area of the scroll bar, the view will either scroll to the
next page up or down (depending on where you click), or scroll
directly to the relative location in the view where you clicked in the
scroll bar.
Use smooth scrolling Clicking this box will increase the smoothness in which items scroll
by. It does this by using faster refreshes, so smooth scrolling comes
at the cost of some system resources. On most newer machines, the
effect of this is negligible.
Minimize when double-clicking This option does what it says. When selected, this will cause any
a window title bar window to minimize into the Dock when you double-click the title
bar (personally, I preferred the window shades of earlier Mac OS
systems).
Number of Recent Items These three drop-down menus select how many items of each type
will appear in the Recent Items submenu in the Apple menu.
Font smoothing style This option controls font smoothing. Font smoothing rounds off
fonts so the edges don’t appear jagged, usually improving their
appearance on the screen. Occasionally this can alter a font’s
intended look somewhat, and at very small font sizes it can cause
them to become blurry—in which case, there is an option to turn off
font smoothing for smaller fonts. In general, the defaults are fine,
but you may wish to tweak these to your preference.
Figure 4-3. The Appearance preference pane in System Preferences
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