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OK, any of these "bad"?

They're largely harmless. Some of them seem pointless or purely resisting-change, like disabling menu bar transparency. Subpixel font rendering could look pretty bad on the wrong screen.

A lot of those Finder options are just going to increase noise on the screen. It's rare that I ever need to know the full path of something in OS X. Either I'm already on the command line, or I just use Spotlight.

Disabling the “Are you sure you want to open this application?” dialog seems just wrong. Confirming once per program downloaded from the net seems like a sane default.

Anyway these are pretty subjective things. Good thing they're so easy to pick and choose from and revert.

Subpixel font rendering being disabled by default caused text to appear absolutely horrible on my brand new 23' IPS display.

Can you provide an example of an external display on which it's not necessary or harmful?

A projector.

> It's rare that I ever need to know the full path of something in OS X. Either I'm already on the command line, or I just use Spotlight.

I will never understand this.

Disabling the quarantine on executables downloaded from the internet strikes me as a bad idea, but that's just me.

The quarantine is the bit that causes a dialog to pop up the first time you attempt to open a file newly downloaded from the internet that has the executable bit set. Good for catching, say, executables disguised as documents, or stopping anything from exploiting a browser hole to get an executable downloaded to your machine and opened by your browser.

enables tap to click, which you may not like - personally i loathe it.

It's useful for when the physical clicking mechanism on Apple's trackpads eventually die. Though you still need a mouse to drag/draw things.

You can drag windows by double tapping the titlebar, then dragging.

or just enable drag with three fingers in the trackpad preference panel.

I think "Map bottom right Trackpad corner to right-click" is annoying. And I'm not sure why you'd want "Remove Dropbox’s green checkmark icons in Finder"?

Other than that, looks great :)

Here’s my reasoning: I assume all files in my Dropbox get synced correctly; if something goes wrong, I’ll be able to tell by the red warning icon anyway. Why would I want the green checkmark icons? They only add visual noise.

For larger datasets, such as Logic Pro projects, you can tell exactly which files have been synced so you don't accidentally open up/save and corrupt your projects.

@tubbo That’s still possible when the green icons are hidden: no icon means it’s synced successfully.

Agreed. Ctrl-Click works on the rare occasion that you want to right click in an OS X app.

I use the two finger click.

Or just two-finger click.

Upon quick glance, nope everything seems fine.

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