http://themachackers.com/2008/06/24/the-myth-about-the-weight-losing-snow-leopard/ A professional view on mac rumors Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:17:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://themachackers.com/2008/06/24/the-myth-about-the-weight-losing-snow-leopard/#comment-4697 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:07:54 +0000 http://themachackers.com/2008/06/24/the-myth-about-the-weight-losing-snow-leopard/#comment-4697 [...] In a post that details the various myths doing the round on the shrinking apps—no PPC code (false), smaller binaries (false!), missing language files (false!)—the writer spills the beans: When you look in Mail.app you see that language files use up most of the disc space. Inside the language folder (e.g. “German.lproj”) are a lot of .nib files (the extension of Interface Builder). Inside normally are two files. One is a very small “keyedobjects.nib” and the other is very big “designable.nib” file… Now the “designable.nib” is gone. It seems like it had no reason other than to give hackers a chance to mess with the application’s UI design. [...] […] In a post that details the various myths doing the round on the shrinking apps—no PPC code (false), smaller binaries (false!), missing language files (false!)—the writer spills the beans: When you look in Mail.app you see that language files use up most of the disc space. Inside the language folder (e.g. “German.lproj”) are a lot of .nib files (the extension of Interface Builder). Inside normally are two files. One is a very small “keyedobjects.nib” and the other is very big “designable.nib” file… Now the “designable.nib” is gone. It seems like it had no reason other than to give hackers a chance to mess with the application’s UI design. […]

]]> http://themachackers.com/2008/06/24/the-myth-about-the-weight-losing-snow-leopard/#comment-4696 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:22:10 +0000 http://themachackers.com/2008/06/24/the-myth-about-the-weight-losing-snow-leopard/#comment-4696 [...] UPDATE: A list of the myths about the new light-weight Snow Leopard apps. In Mail.app’s case, the new slim-line is due to the removal of deisgnable.nibs in the app’s package. Tags: Apple, Apple Mail, leopard mail, localization, mail.app, resolution indendence, snow leopard [...] […] UPDATE: A list of the myths about the new light-weight Snow Leopard apps. In Mail.app’s case, the new slim-line is due to the removal of deisgnable.nibs in the app’s package. Tags: Apple, Apple Mail, leopard mail, localization, mail.app, resolution indendence, snow leopard […]

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