![]() The General preference panel includes a new option to set the number of recent applications and documents (5-50) that will be displayed in the corresponding items in the Apple menu. Users shouldn't need to know which application controls the desktop area. It makes more sense in System Preferences. The Desktop preference panel, used to set the desktop background, is a new immigrant to System Preferences, coming from its former home in the Finder's application preferences. System Preferences may be on the same evolutionary road as the classic Mac OS Control Panel: starting as a monolithic application, gaining organization and extensibility slowly, and eventually turning into a "special folder" containing individual control panel applications, deferring organization to the user via the Finder's usual file management interface. ![]() Why is QuickTime under "Internet & Network"? Why is Login under "Personal"? (It contains personal settings for login items, but also allows the system-wide login behavior to be changed.) Overall, it's an improvement, but a more extensible (and user-configurable) organization scheme would be even better. While the grouping has made finding a particular icon easier than in the ungrouped, alphabetical list in the 10.0.x version, the groups seem a bit loose to me. The System Preferences application in 10.1 reorganizes the previously alphabetical list of preference panels into groups:
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