Hello all...
I recently posted a list of the current gripes I've got with Panther... but it was to the middle of a discussion, and I think it's right to get a list together to send off to Apple in the hope some things can be sorted out. Here's my current list, please anyone who has noticed bugs or slack UI design - post!
-shoez
word highlight different in each application
everything is so big
can't stop stuff which is causing the system to lock up in safari (assessing a localhost for instance) - pizza wheel appears
no "mail to" action on right-click file select
activity monitor takes up 156mb of virtual memory!?
can't see size of file just by clicking on it (tool/taskbar)
expose is sluggish initially
can't tab to pulldown menus or radio clicks -why?? (Even with Universal Access settings on)
system reacts slowly
sometimes when dropping stuff into the Applications folder, it seems to go in but disappears - not to be found in either location without a word of warning.
volume and brightness controls can be very slow to operate.
itunes doesn't show enough/allow enough time to see the whole Shoutcast title. Should allow grabbing scroller and manually shifting it left<>right
Font listing!!! (in Word), way too big, can't scroll quickly, and can't quickly jump to an entry by typing the first few letters of the name.
Can't perform undo+redo operations in form boxes in Safari
The way safari doesn't seem to cache and page, and when returning to the previous page starts at the top and moves down after other page elements have reloaded
When returning to a page in Safari, starts at the top, manually scroll to a place of your bidding - when it finally finishes reloading the page it jumps back to the original place (linked with bug above)
Safari - a page fails to load, message dialogue appears, address bar loses focus so can't quickly reload the page.
Safari - when you write a long document in a textarea window in one tab, go into another tab and return back, the textarea remains in focus but it scrolls back up to the top (cursor remains at the bottom)
No easy way to arrange files which may be oddly spaced all over a directory
No fast way to sort by name, date, etc. when in large icon mode
too much bloody space wasted with windows - spacing pretty crap
itunes - select a load of tunes in a finder window, drag them across to iTunes (the left-most window-playlists). iTunes automatically creates a playlist (good), highlights the "untitled playlist n" text, but doesn't transfer window focus.
iTunes - doesn't seem to recognise the numbers at the start of a filename...
calculator doesn't show zeros when they are being input after a decimal point.
iPhoto leaves the camera display on while downloading photos!
iPhoto doesn't download camera movies
iPhoto is slow, takes ages to connect to camera and start to process images. Pizza wheel of doom shows regularly.
iPhoto doesn't show current file location - just a file name!!
iPhoto/Finder doesn't seem to show icon previews of some JPG images!?
Safari/Finder won't allow you a contextual right/ctrl-click file options menu. So I can browse for files in Safari, find one and open it, archive it, etc. from the dialog. Rationale: If I'm uploading a photo to a website, I want to definitively find out what it is beforehand (rather than using separate Finder window).
Safari - page search function is sorely lacking. Needs to allow searches to be wrapped, search from top/bottom/current location.
Networking/Finder - doesn't seem to remember my Windows networking password in my key chain. I always have to retype it.
Finder - attempt to drag something into main Applications folder - item already exists, and Finder prompts "replace/cancel" - then it tells me I don't have sufficient permissions but doesn't give me a dialog to enter a username and password!
Accounts/System - can't seem to switch a user to be the "Main" one ?
Finder - Column mode: at times Finder doesn't scale the column size according to the directory/file listing size - this is good in some cases, where the column may actually have something to display, but otherwise there is just a blank column which forces a scrolling exercise upon the user.
Finder - can't see Windows shares that are named greater than a certain amount of characters.
Finder/open file - view settings aren't saved. For instance I select to open a file in an application, resize one of the columns, and it always returns back to the original size.
scrolling large documents can be very sluggish.
Finder - very occasionally crashes (Icon is still there, appears to be loaded into memory, but there are no windows) and there appears to be no way to restart the process ?
Finder/connecting to an FTP server - recurses through every directory on the server!
Flash on OS X really is painfully slow (don't know who's fault this is, but on Windows it flys)
I recently posted a list of the current gripes I've got with Panther... but it was to the middle of a discussion, and I think it's right to get a list together to send off to Apple in the hope some things can be sorted out. Here's my current list, please anyone who has noticed bugs or slack UI design - post!
-shoez
word highlight different in each application
everything is so big
can't stop stuff which is causing the system to lock up in safari (assessing a localhost for instance) - pizza wheel appears
no "mail to" action on right-click file select
activity monitor takes up 156mb of virtual memory!?
can't see size of file just by clicking on it (tool/taskbar)
expose is sluggish initially
can't tab to pulldown menus or radio clicks -why?? (Even with Universal Access settings on)
system reacts slowly
sometimes when dropping stuff into the Applications folder, it seems to go in but disappears - not to be found in either location without a word of warning.
volume and brightness controls can be very slow to operate.
itunes doesn't show enough/allow enough time to see the whole Shoutcast title. Should allow grabbing scroller and manually shifting it left<>right
Font listing!!! (in Word), way too big, can't scroll quickly, and can't quickly jump to an entry by typing the first few letters of the name.
Can't perform undo+redo operations in form boxes in Safari
The way safari doesn't seem to cache and page, and when returning to the previous page starts at the top and moves down after other page elements have reloaded
When returning to a page in Safari, starts at the top, manually scroll to a place of your bidding - when it finally finishes reloading the page it jumps back to the original place (linked with bug above)
Safari - a page fails to load, message dialogue appears, address bar loses focus so can't quickly reload the page.
Safari - when you write a long document in a textarea window in one tab, go into another tab and return back, the textarea remains in focus but it scrolls back up to the top (cursor remains at the bottom)
No easy way to arrange files which may be oddly spaced all over a directory
No fast way to sort by name, date, etc. when in large icon mode
too much bloody space wasted with windows - spacing pretty crap
itunes - select a load of tunes in a finder window, drag them across to iTunes (the left-most window-playlists). iTunes automatically creates a playlist (good), highlights the "untitled playlist n" text, but doesn't transfer window focus.
iTunes - doesn't seem to recognise the numbers at the start of a filename...
calculator doesn't show zeros when they are being input after a decimal point.
iPhoto leaves the camera display on while downloading photos!
iPhoto doesn't download camera movies
iPhoto is slow, takes ages to connect to camera and start to process images. Pizza wheel of doom shows regularly.
iPhoto doesn't show current file location - just a file name!!
iPhoto/Finder doesn't seem to show icon previews of some JPG images!?
Safari/Finder won't allow you a contextual right/ctrl-click file options menu. So I can browse for files in Safari, find one and open it, archive it, etc. from the dialog. Rationale: If I'm uploading a photo to a website, I want to definitively find out what it is beforehand (rather than using separate Finder window).
Safari - page search function is sorely lacking. Needs to allow searches to be wrapped, search from top/bottom/current location.
Networking/Finder - doesn't seem to remember my Windows networking password in my key chain. I always have to retype it.
Finder - attempt to drag something into main Applications folder - item already exists, and Finder prompts "replace/cancel" - then it tells me I don't have sufficient permissions but doesn't give me a dialog to enter a username and password!
Accounts/System - can't seem to switch a user to be the "Main" one ?
Finder - Column mode: at times Finder doesn't scale the column size according to the directory/file listing size - this is good in some cases, where the column may actually have something to display, but otherwise there is just a blank column which forces a scrolling exercise upon the user.
Finder - can't see Windows shares that are named greater than a certain amount of characters.
Finder/open file - view settings aren't saved. For instance I select to open a file in an application, resize one of the columns, and it always returns back to the original size.
scrolling large documents can be very sluggish.
Finder - very occasionally crashes (Icon is still there, appears to be loaded into memory, but there are no windows) and there appears to be no way to restart the process ?
Finder/connecting to an FTP server - recurses through every directory on the server!
Flash on OS X really is painfully slow (don't know who's fault this is, but on Windows it flys)
