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How to fix Apple’s iTunes 10 for Mac’s minimize, maximize, close buttons:
1. Make sure you quit iTunes.
2. Open Terminal (Applications>Utilities>Terminal).
3. Type or Paste the following into Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1
4. Hit enter and quit Terminal.
5. Launch iTunes and enjoy your minimize, maximize, and close buttons restored to their proper places:
Vertical is to Apple as horizontal is to Microsoft.
Vertical alignment is proper, too; just different from the other proper, which is horizontal.
Non-issue at best.
Thank you MDN!!!! That awful vertical change was driving me crazy. If you’ve used it from the beginning, it really is an irritating change, and I don’t get why they made this one tiny change… There’s no reason to suddenly change this on every piece of system software and third party software – why would that be worth it?
@Maeric,
Not possible.
Wanna bet some lawyer sues Apple on behalf
of his client who claims a patent on vertical
orientation of buttons?
Since the size of the monitor being used by the average computer user has always been increasing, what is this anal retentive desire on the part of so many (particularly, it appears, Apple UI designers) for minimization?
This change is simply unnecessary.
And, as has already been stated, it also brings an inevitable association with traffic signals even though there is no analogy in behavior.
There is an expression, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
It ain’t broke.
DONE.
I feel better now!
@Lemon…
You are alone.
There are GUI studies that note the efficiency of the Mac UI and it’s SINGLE menu bar at the TOP of the screen. There’s no need to carefully position your cursor to find it, just fling the cursor up and it stops at the top of the screen.
You can change the Dock with position ease in the System Preferences: Dock.
I don’t like the vertical buttons. As for the monochromatic sidebar icons, just a bad idea. It’s difficult to differentiate between them easily without color-coding.
Want to switch it back to iTunes 9 style? EASY.
http://obamapacman.com/2010/09/how-to-add-color-icons-apple-itunes-10-gray-sidebar-mod/
Icon Resource: http://cl.ly/2Ek7
The vertical orientation is the new hotness, MDN. What you are trying to do is return to the old and busted.
@Cuthbert
Yes, it works in the same way. Yes / -1 have the same “meaning” . . . just a switch to turn the setting on/off.
Who actually uses those buttons? In five years of OS X use, I have never used them except to show off the Genie Effect in slow motion holding the shift key. I certainly don’t use them to close windows (CMD-W set to a button on my mouse) and I do not minimize anything because I use Expose.
Sometimes I might use the maximize button because OS X has no window size memory for when changing between screens of different resolution.
So the extra space provided by the vertical alignment is welcome for me.
For users who do maximize and minimize, don’t you just double click the title bar anyway? I can’t believe anyone still hunts for tiny buttons to click on increasingly large screens.
I like the new layout only because it uses less space. I haven’t used those buttons in years. Command-w is always quicker.
UI-wise, I like the vertical. It saves space and works well.
I like the vertical, but it’s no biggee either way.
What SUUUUUUX is the lack of color. It’s not just aesthetic- I actually like the grayscale look. But I have to hunt longer for the left hand icons every time because a huge range of information that makes each one easily identifiable has been stripped out.
Also, do the targets of every manipulable item seem smaller to anyone else?
Why not just accept change stoooopids?
Nice tip. I don’t like the vertical arrangement personally, so this tip was an easy way to put it back to the original. Thanks much!
Cares?
I like vertical (traffic lights), especially if they flipped horizontal when you clicked the minimize toolbar button on the right that some applications use.
It might be nice if when you clicked the red dot on the last open window of an app that the app would quit. I can’t tell you how many converts to the Mac I know that have trouble getting the concept of window/document vs app. Thank Steve for good memory management in OS X.
One thing that I think Microsoft did better than Apple was the maximize button. The green + button for Mac doesn’t operate consistently across applications.
@ Lemon: I like the Mac menubar at top as it increases productivity when using many apps. If Apple used the same convention as Microsoft or Linux and put the menu in the windows, it makes for mousing hell and productivity suffers.