Steve Troughton-SmithI wish all my app designs had the confidence of FileMerge, who picked a layout in NEXTSTEP in the early 90s and for the most part hasn't thought to change a pixel since
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Look what arrived!
I quickly booted up the #iMacG4 and the hard drive is totally dead. The listing said it worked but it could have easily died in shipping. It’s 20 years old. But when it booted the LCD was in good condition and all the peripherals are clean so I will remain positive it works fine.
I already ordered an SSD and 2gb of RAM from MacSales.com but this project will remain dormant until August probably. Then I will take it apart, clean it and upgrade it 😎
Whoa. Here is a full package set of NeXTSTEP 3.3J in Japanese and people are eating this up! 27 bids!
To be fair, I have found cd images for NeXTSTEP 3.3j online but never #OpenStep 4.2J. I wonder if it was ever released in Japan 🤔
Leung 
Ok! I finally managed to redo the design of the Settings→General screen for [Not]Soulver for OpenStep to be metrics compatible across systems. I think it looks a lot better now. Here is a screenshot of the new UI on #macOS26 and #OpenStep. Video to follow in next reply.
And a video of the new UI
Ok, actual UI update for [Not]Soulver for #OpenStep. I swapped out a text field for a slider. Big, I know 😎, but it paves the way for the next update which is to replace the NSPopUpButton for controlling Dark Mode with a custom 3 button toggle.
I admit that I have never added an NSSlider in code before, but I saw in the #OpenStep documentation that it has a -setTitle: property. However, I tried to use this and in Xcode I got this quite stern warning
'setTitle:' is deprecated: first deprecated in macOS 10.9 - -setTitle: had no effect since 10.0
But after trying it, it appears it has no effect in OpenStep either. I want to know the back story here. What happened?? lol
I updated [Not]Soulver for #OpenStep based on this approach. It now treats macOS26 and OpenStep as the "correct" button sizes and handles those pesky Mac OS X versions in the middle 30 years as an outlier 🤣
