Thanks partha...I already visited the preferences to change it to a lighter version so thanks...I'll check out the link and see if I can find one that I prefer. Simones older version always carried a mac theme but I'd prefer to stick with your version right now as it runs like a charm for me anyway. Thank you again....

oh my, I don't know what has gotten in to me, but I'm starting out the new year by downloading Mountain Lion!!! I am upgrading from Snow Leopard, so I am probably in for a big surprise. Please tell me everything will still work the same, as far as apps go!!!!!


*it's taking a really long time, but it assume it might take several hours to fully download. I wish I could see a progress bar ... oh wait, I see it on the download icon on the dock. Heh, it's only about 1/4th done, guess I'll be leaving it download when we go to our NYE party. Surely it will be done by the time we get back.

No probs 2 ton you will be fine...iTunes update is a bit scary but it does work...if you want to save a cpy of it you have to do it before you install

I used Time Machine back up system to get it back the same way it was...and I saved all of my photos to a memory stick as a secondary back up....you might want to use these 2 websites for help...
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39701/lion-diskmaker
http://tweaksapp.com/app/mountain-tweaks/

I did it! The bookmarks are a bit daunting...it's all my old ones from the previous computer, not just the whittled down list...gah! Also the little listing across the top that used to have just a few ones, like youtube and google images and maps....it's got ALL of my links. I have a day off tomorrow to tweak it. but it works, and I have the cloud, so all is good as far as I know. I see my little McGimp sitting down there on the dock...can't wait to try him out.

*forgot to mention that my two-finger scrolling is backwards to what it was. I think I might see about changing it, I keep going the wrong way!

you should be able to adjust the scrolling in system preferences but use the Lion tweaks as well and you can have everything the way you want it.

I'm getting things tweaked, little by little. Right now it's updating all my apps/programs, so I'm just doing some surfing, don't want to be messing around in programs in case it messes up some updating. Finally got my bookmark bar cleaned up, lol. With all my old explorer and new safari bookmarks together, my bookmarks really need to be organized. One of these days, lol. So far, I'm good with Mountain Lion. It's not as different as I thought it would be...can't wait to try the cloud and McGimp!

Happy New Year!

Let me know if you have any issues.

Partha

no issues that I have run across. McGimp seems to run the same on Mountain Lion as it did on Snow Leopard. I'll be sure to post if I run across anything odd.

Glad to see you havent had any further issues 2-ton

for my Macbook Pro, I purchased a $15 logitech wireless mouse and its awesome.

really? only $15. If my mouse ever dies, I will get one. Right now I am using the free one that my daughter gave me. It works fine except the scroll button only scrolls up and not down, lol.

Hey 2-ton, Pauline,

Have you tried McGimp 2.9 yet?

Thanks,
Partha

I'm not a Mac user, never even sat down at one, but just came across this article about OS X Mountain Lion
How to crash your Mac
Funny video too, it's old and has an F-Bomb in it, really like the part about using it as a boat anchor

This is really weird, works on almost every app At least any apple app

ok I have noticed that some people have a problem with finding the library once they have upgraded to Mountain Lion. So thought I would post this.
First off, if you havent already got it, you need to get a thing called Mountain Lion Tweaks or Lion Tweaks. Its free and small to download and when you run that you can restore your usual things like for instance the library where it used to show up and the scroll bars where you like them and also I noticed something about scrolling the wrong way, you can fix that in System preferences (black apple), (for my laptop I purchased a small logitech wireless mouse for $15). go to System preferences/mouse and at the top you will see a thing saying scroll direction...uncheck that and it will be the way you expect....well worth downloading lion tweaks tho.

ok ok dont tell me there are things in there that shouldnt be...I know right!!! LOL

Partha, I had a crack at it a few weeks ago and thought oops, I dont think I am supposed to use this but will give it another go today if thats ok.It was the GOAT version.

the first thing I have noticed is that I cant find it in the library to add some brushes/patterns/gradients but I'll play with it today and see what I can do.

Not yet...I am waiting for a whole day off so I will have time to download and play with it for a while and report back anything of interest. Hopefully this wednesday.

Pauline,

The library is located at ~/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.9

Have fun and let me know if you have any issues.

Thanks,
Partha