10.7 All the Little Things!

[baryon]

From what I've heard, it only works through WiFi. You either have to be connected to the same wireless network, or the two computers will create an ad-hoc network.

So it won't work over the internet, as I understand it, but if someone knows better, feel free to correct me!

 

[torbjoern]

From what I've heard, it only works through WiFi. You either have to be connected to the same wireless network, or the two computers will create an ad-hoc network.

So it won't work over the internet, as I understand it, but if someone knows better, feel free to correct me!

What if they're in the same LAN but using Ethernet? That shouldn't make any difference (and it's lame if it does).

 

[lurrego]

is it just me, or does ichat not show when a buddy is typing anymore? i wish apple would also include time-stamps for the conversations, i tend to have fun with those. I wouldn't consider downloading another program to chat though, I like this one enough

 

[Tech198]

Few problems

Anyone notice with Finder ignores the options set to open in particular desktop?

Its displays under Options as "Desktop 2" for example, but this is just visual, Finder opens in any desktop you are currently on.

The new lock screen in Lion is good, however previously you didn't really notice the delay in time-outs. Previously, the screen blanked, before the screensaver kicked so it wasn't an issue.


Still ... a good feature.. I just need to get the hang of it.

 

[Habakuk]

DoubleCommand

For all the writers among us.

I couldn't live without the keyboard system tool DoubleCommand. It lets the second Enter key on my 2007 MBP 3.1 (right of the right Command key—can anybody tell me why we do need a second Enter key replica?) act as a Forward Delete function (= the only key I really missed when I left Windows years ago—I know there is fn-backspace and ctrl-d but I want it directly with ONE hit).

You can download the free application here:
http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/

After the Lion upgrade the 32-bit-function didn't work any more. I didn't touch it since I bought my MBP, it "survived" all other OS upgrades and I had to think about it for 30 min because I have completely forgotten the name—it resides in the system settings "other" at the bottom and it's NOT a standard Mac OS feature (but maybe it should). In short: A new install of DoubleCommand made it working again.

So maybe that helps some1 who has to ponder like me why and where to that function is gone and how to revive it.

 

[Tech198]

Mail

How do you get rid if the second pane in mail ?

 

[Skika]

Wow, don't know if it has been discussed but if you double tap with two fingers on an app in the dock it shows recent files that were opened with that app.


pretty cool!

 

[Tech198]

Wow, don't know if it has been discussed but if you double tap with two fingers on an app in the dock it shows recent files that were opened with that app.


pretty cool!

Just tried it... yep .. sure is, particularly when it takes you direct when you click it.

 

[Dizzie20vt]

A couple of little niggles. These might have easy fixes I don't know about.

2 finger scrolling backwards in safari. Now fixed to 3 fingers thank you to a previous post.

Finder seems to keep reverting back to sort by name rather than sort by last modified which is annoying for what I do. I have to download a file frequently to upload to our webshop and have almost uploaded an old file by mistake.

Finder no longer has the info bar showing 1 item 250gb available

The new Finder side bar isn't as nice as the old one in my opinion.

Mail has a nice new look, but can it be set to split horizontally rather than vertically?

Mail's mailbox icons are too box and I have to now scroll down to view them all. My many rules for sorting are now hiding emails if the mailbox starts with the letters M and onward

Mail's unread counter in the dock is unreadable unless you have a big dock which I don't. Half my apps seems to have the new icon and half have kept the old icon. Skype has the new one and Adium old...

Chrome is easy to pop into full screen, but not as easy as safari to get out of it. had to go into the view settings to get back out of full screen. safari has the little icon in the top right.

just my 2p 🙂

 

[kolax]

How do you get rid if the second pane in mail ?

Get rid of what?

 

[Dizzie20vt]

swap it to classic mode?

or drag the reading pane down to the bottom to effectively hide it

 

[hollerz]

Finder no longer has the info bar showing 1 item 250gb available

View > Show Status Bar

Mail's mailbox icons are too box and I have to now scroll down to view them all. My many rules for sorting are now hiding emails if the mailbox starts with the letters M and onward

Seems like this is kind of a global setting for all Sidebars in System Prefs > General


Don't know about the others!

 

[Dizzie20vt]

thank you hollerz!

 

[kolax]

swap it to classic mode?

or drag the reading pane down to the bottom to effectively hide it

Go to Mail Preferences and then Viewing.

 

[curtisinoc]

Reeder issue

For those using "Reeder" in Lion. I noticed one annoyance:

In SL, if you "opened" an article link in the Reeder pane, it would expand the entire article by taking you to the submitting website (within Reeder). To get back to the "Reeder" compressed format of the article, a three-finger swipe would quickly get you back. Now, the three-finger swipe within Reeder will move you to another desktop (mission control).

 

[Steelgrave]

Here's a reason. Safari 5.1 (and iOS 5.0 safari), unlike previous versions, doesn't play nice with OWA (at least the version my firm uses). Chrome does.

Neither does our Citrix farm here where I work (both Chrome and Firefox do work with it).

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

The library is hidden.

 

[snowleopard13]

is there a way to disable dashboard when swiping through desktops/apps and only get to it by pressing the dedicated dashboard key on the keyboard?

 

[paulsalter]

is there a way to disable dashboard when swiping through desktops/apps and only get to it by pressing the dedicated dashboard key on the keyboard?

mission control in preferences, untick dashboard in a space

 

[Tech198]

swap it to classic mode?

Thanks..

 

[snowleopard13]

mission control in preferences, untick dashboard in a space

thank you very much. must have overlooked that a few times...

 

[Etnies419]

How do you get rid if the second pane in mail ?

Click the hide button on the top left. I'm assuming that's what you're talking about.

 

[monokakata]

Two annoying Lion Mail issues. I've tried to fix them without success.

1. Keyboard (Apple KB) letter repeat won't work. If I want to type AAAAA, for example, the A key won't repeat. Symbols and punctuation marks will repeat. Numbers won't.

2. The old spelling notification (the wiggly red underlining) is gone, and in its place the only thing seems to be the iOS style of automatic word substitution or suggestion.

I regularly email in a couple of obscure foreign languages. Auto correct makes this very annoying. Does anybody know how to turn on the simple old-style word-flagging? Is it gone?

 

[paulsalter]

2. The old spelling notification (the wiggly red underlining) is gone, and in its place the only thing seems to be the iOS style of automatic word substitution or suggestion.

preferences, language & text, text tab, untick correct spelling automatically

 

[monokakata]

preferences, language & text, text tab, untick correct spelling automatically

Yes, of course. I'm aware of that option.

My complaint has to do with the style of correction, not whether correction is on or off. I much prefer the old style, and fear that it's been wholly replaced by this intrusive iOS style.