Interface

General interface settings

Configure Open Recent:

Most document-based applications have an "Open Recent" item in the File menu. This menu can be configured system-wide, allowing you to enable and disable the menu as well as set the number of recent documents to show.

Place scroll arrows:

At top and bottom Together at both ends Together at top Together at bottom
ArrowsAtBothEnds DoubleArrowsAtBothEnds ArrowsAtTop ArrowsAtBottom

Display sheets:

A sheet is a dialog which is attached to a window, an example is the Save dialogs which slides out from the top of the window. Cocktail allows you to configure the speed of this animation.

When application crash:

Mac OS X can be set to one of the following three different behaviors for when an application crashes:

By default Mac OS X displays the "Unexpectedly Quit" dialog.

Use expanded Print and Save dialogs by default

By default Print and Save dialogs are displayed in collapsed mode. By clicking the triangle button you can expand the dialogs to enable some advanced settings. Every application remembers if you have expanded the dialog and will present the dialog in the same mode you left it in. This setting enables the expanded mode by default. From now on, every app will use the large Print and Save dialogs by default - with the exception of any program where you might have used the Print (and Save) dialogs and quit with it in the small state; you'll have to set those manually.

Do not allow Help Viewer window to stay on top

Makes Help Viewer window behave like a normal window in Mac OS X by preventing it from floating on top of other applications.

Screenshot file format:

The compressed image file format PNG is the default screenshot format. Mac OS X can use a number of different file formats. One can also set a where you want the screenshots to be saved. The following image file formats is available: