{"id":1696,"date":"2006-09-15T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1968"},"modified":"2010-05-08T19:36:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T22:36:10","slug":"disk-image-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/15\/disk-image-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Disk Image gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found a very nice and interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/softwaretrenches.com\/2006\/09\/dmg_disk_image_is_the.html\">gallery of disk images<\/a>. I decided against using disk images early on when I found that, more often than not, some local setting of the user&#8217;s Finder would make the icons move around, usually confusing less experienced users.<\/p>\n<p>But these look so nice, I may change my mind now; I wonder if it might be worth it to file a bug suggesting that icons on locked disk images should snap back into their positions.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks  to Jim Matthews of <a href=\"http:\/\/fetchsoftworks.com\/\">Fetch Softworks<\/a> for remembering that I had the original idea of putting a symbolic link to \/Applications on the disk image. I now see that most people are simply putting in a Finder alias instead of a symlink&#8230; I&#8217;m not so sure this is a good idea. It works quite well in Tiger, but it will store your boot disk name at the very least, and perhaps even break if the user has a secondary volume which has that same name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found a very nice and interesting gallery of disk images. I decided against using disk images early on when I found that, more often than not, some local setting of the user&#8217;s Finder would make the icons move around, usually confusing less experienced users. But these look so nice, I may change my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[36,23],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev","tag-history","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-rm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}