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List of stuff that sucks in Lion
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I'm not a fan of Lion at this juncture, but it's not due to bugs.
Those are perfectly normal, no matter what platform one's on.
Initially I had planned on waiting, however with all the Macs I have, I'm free to try it, test it, and have a firsthand experience with it.
I see no reason to list the negatives since the properly sorted rev will be along at some point in the future.
Those are perfectly normal, no matter what platform one's on.
Initially I had planned on waiting, however with all the Macs I have, I'm free to try it, test it, and have a firsthand experience with it.
I see no reason to list the negatives since the properly sorted rev will be along at some point in the future.
This was WELL documented before Lion was released. If you still purchased it knowing full well that PPC support was dropped, then that's nobody's fault but your own.PowerPC drop - cannot use some of my old programs
Hey, OP, I do not think you've used Mac since 2007. Seriously, you must be kidding me. I will agree with you if this was the situation in 10.7.4. However, it's been released couple of days ago, so give it some weeks before it's polished. If you've been using Macs, or even joined Macrumors Forums, since 2007, then you should know well by now Tiger and Leopard had bugs and troubleshoots when it was first released. If you are going to keep arguing how Lion sucks, go back to Snow Leopard or start using Windows, and then start using Lion once 10.7.1 or 2 is released.
I just want to have "fine tune" with option + shift + sound. What's the point removing it?
I really liked this feature. Maybe they'll bring it back.
MPlayer OSX Extended 14rev4 works just fine for me, or you can go to the App Store and download MPlayerX, which is an 'upgraded' version of MPlayer OSX extended, which also works great, but I prefer the original.
For the Dictionary three finger double tap, you need to have the word highlighted. And for the double tap to zoom, you need to double tap with TWO fingers.
For the Dictionary three finger double tap, you need to have the word highlighted. And for the double tap to zoom, you need to double tap with TWO fingers.
Stuff that sucks in Lion:
-the lack of Save as in preview (and the implication that this could be gone in updated apps in future) - No Duplicate and export don't work the same and I don't understand why you can't have autosave and save as working in the same system
-I hate that when you do app expose you can't restrict it to just show you windows from one space. I don't organize my desktops by app. I organize them based on function (work vs play etc.) I don't want to see my 'work' windows and accidentally switch to my work desktop when I'm looking at stuff for 'play' (hope that makes sense). In SL there was a terminal command to turn this behavior off but it doesn't work in Lion
-I wish it would remember when I uncheck the resume all windows upon restart...
-resizing columns in column view doesn't seem to work quite right with certain sorting options...hopefully this is a bug because it does work correctly when you remove sorting
-gestures!!! So confusing and not as good as SL. The 4 (5?) finger pinch for show desktop was absolutely useless for me. Also I really want the gesture for application switcher to return as at least an option. Luckily many of the gesture issues can be fixed with BTT
-some of the animations are painfully slow. In particular switching between desktops is too slow with the gesture. And I know it isn't my computer because if you switch desktops from the Mission Control screen it is instantaneous as it should be all the time...
BUT
IMHO Lion is not all bad. Mission control for example doesn't seem so bad to me although I can see how people would miss all app expose. I'm trying to learn to like Lion so that when I do get a new mac I don't immediately want to throw it out a window...Luckily I won't need a new computer for a while so maybe by then Apple will have listened to some suggestions...
-the lack of Save as in preview (and the implication that this could be gone in updated apps in future) - No Duplicate and export don't work the same and I don't understand why you can't have autosave and save as working in the same system
-I hate that when you do app expose you can't restrict it to just show you windows from one space. I don't organize my desktops by app. I organize them based on function (work vs play etc.) I don't want to see my 'work' windows and accidentally switch to my work desktop when I'm looking at stuff for 'play' (hope that makes sense). In SL there was a terminal command to turn this behavior off but it doesn't work in Lion
-I wish it would remember when I uncheck the resume all windows upon restart...
-resizing columns in column view doesn't seem to work quite right with certain sorting options...hopefully this is a bug because it does work correctly when you remove sorting
-gestures!!! So confusing and not as good as SL. The 4 (5?) finger pinch for show desktop was absolutely useless for me. Also I really want the gesture for application switcher to return as at least an option. Luckily many of the gesture issues can be fixed with BTT
-some of the animations are painfully slow. In particular switching between desktops is too slow with the gesture. And I know it isn't my computer because if you switch desktops from the Mission Control screen it is instantaneous as it should be all the time...
BUT
IMHO Lion is not all bad. Mission control for example doesn't seem so bad to me although I can see how people would miss all app expose. I'm trying to learn to like Lion so that when I do get a new mac I don't immediately want to throw it out a window...Luckily I won't need a new computer for a while so maybe by then Apple will have listened to some suggestions...
I just realized that switching desktops animation speed is tied to how fast I make the gesture.
I HATE how I can't do 2 fingers forward and back pages in FireFox.
It's rediculous because the command in the System Prefs specifically says "Swipe Between Pages". It's like it doesn't recognize web pages as actual "pages"... I wonder what the reasoning of this is. Does teh Steve think we're going to be switching Desktops more than we're going to navigate in web pages?
It's rediculous because the command in the System Prefs specifically says "Swipe Between Pages". It's like it doesn't recognize web pages as actual "pages"... I wonder what the reasoning of this is. Does teh Steve think we're going to be switching Desktops more than we're going to navigate in web pages?
I fixed mplayer extended. Reinstalling did nothing but when I changed something in the audio menu it worked. Btw mplayerx sucks. I use the graphite theme while mplayerx still uses the blue theme. I use the media hotkeys solely for itunes but when mplayerx is open it messes everything up. Its a piece of poo.
The gestures only work in safari. Almost every other app doesn't support them. The 3finger double tap wouldn't work for me anyway since I configured a 3finger tap to function as a middle mouse button. So if I do a 3finger double tap on a highlighted word that is part of a hotlink, it will open that link two times and then display the dictionary. Its a gimmick for now anyway. Second I use chrome. Safari is still too annoying to use for me though it definitely is THE browser of lion for many others.
Btw fixed library directory too. But like I said before everything takes an additional step to do in lion.
Oh btw there are plenty of bugs in lion. Sometimes I can't swipe back and forth in finder. Sometimes I can. One time I had a vertical stroke of that stock gray wallpaper when I switch to a fullscreen app. It was about the same size as that black stroke used for the transition of one app/desktop to another. I had to resize the app to normal size and back to fullscreen again to get rid of it. And there are probably more bugs that I forgot about.
Bluetooth problems
Seems that Bluetooth devices don't work after the computer's been to sleep. Various reports of iMac and MacBook owners having to resort to powering their machines or Bluetooth off.
At least this should be fixed in the next service pack/update. Unlike the dreadful Mission Control and Expose.
Seems that Bluetooth devices don't work after the computer's been to sleep. Various reports of iMac and MacBook owners having to resort to powering their machines or Bluetooth off.
At least this should be fixed in the next service pack/update. Unlike the dreadful Mission Control and Expose.
"unnatural" gestures
One for you hyper-intelligent mega beings... If "natural" scrolling pushes the screen in the same direction as the fingers on the mouse pad/mouse, why does the three finger gesture move Mission Control screen in the WRONG direction? I.e. swiping three fingers left moves the screen right?
Oops.
One for you hyper-intelligent mega beings... If "natural" scrolling pushes the screen in the same direction as the fingers on the mouse pad/mouse, why does the three finger gesture move Mission Control screen in the WRONG direction? I.e. swiping three fingers left moves the screen right?
Oops.
While it is not the solution you seek, Synk Pro from Decimus (decimus.com) does a great job of synching folders. I use it regularly to keep a sync'd backup; it auto syncs overtime finder flags a file change. It even does N-way sync so you can sync multiple folders spanning multiple machines as well.
Because in one case your are pushing a piece of paper, in the other you are pulling over a new window.
Apple created full screen apps, defaulted the OS to use 2 finger swipes, and then chose to not allow iTunes, Finder etc to use 2 finger swipes. Bravo, Apple designers. You're as bad as Microsoft. And on top of that the only program that utilizes it is a browser that eats memory at an alarming rate.
Sorry cannot resist:
a)no intro video (ok, I know some of you gonna bomb me on this one)
b)default wallpaper(Ok, so probably same here but I put the greatest emphasis on company's ability to put lot of thoughts into small stuff and this was another failed attempt to put exclamation point on small part which could have greater impact).
I am sure I didn't articulate very well here but I hope you get my point.
a)no intro video (ok, I know some of you gonna bomb me on this one)
b)default wallpaper(Ok, so probably same here but I put the greatest emphasis on company's ability to put lot of thoughts into small stuff and this was another failed attempt to put exclamation point on small part which could have greater impact).
I am sure I didn't articulate very well here but I hope you get my point.
lol I agree, an intro video would have been pretty cool!
I am really upset that I lost my Microsoft Office 2004... It was a lot of money... I had to go out and buy 2011 (1 charge was $119 vs 3 charges for $149) So my mom bought the 3 charges for her computer and let me use a charge for mine... ( I use word a lot)...
Also, when I installed Lion on her computer (a 13" macbook pro newer than mine), hers goes into some tutorial and shows you how to do everything. Our layouts on our system preferences is different too, hers has many more options to do things, which sucks for me...
and I don't think the 3 finger swiping desktop to desktop works on mine... (if anyone has any help on that one, it'd be appreciated...
PS, when using the new widgets, is there an way to change that gray background
lol I agree, an intro video would have been pretty cool!
I am really upset that I lost my Microsoft Office 2004... It was a lot of money... I had to go out and buy 2011 (1 charge was $119 vs 3 charges for $149) So my mom bought the 3 charges for her computer and let me use a charge for mine... ( I use word a lot)...
Also, when I installed Lion on her computer (a 13" macbook pro newer than mine), hers goes into some tutorial and shows you how to do everything. Our layouts on our system preferences is different too, hers has many more options to do things, which sucks for me...
and I don't think the 3 finger swiping desktop to desktop works on mine... (if anyone has any help on that one, it'd be appreciated...
Hey, so I thought 3 finger swiping was between full screen apps and not between desktop -- I could be very wrong on this so please someone correct me if I am completely off here.
Also, one more annonyance or request for lion's future update. Umm.. IMessage? Can we get this ball rolling before ios 5 comes??????
I for one agree with op. I would much rather not have upgraded. That's my opinion. In many case, I find myself annoyed by the fact that my laptop is extremely sluggish now. Safari, reeder, the os itself doesn't appear to be very complete. Countless times I have seen bugs appearing. I have a desktop yhat merge with my dashboard and it got stuck. Fonts gone crazy and the lists can go on and on.
My opinion, not very impress at LION.
My opinion, not very impress at LION.
Only minor quibbles here:
1) The "updated" iCal and address book are a few steps back in both design and usability. Usually M$ copies Apple, here it seems to be the opposite. The mid-20th century design is rediculous but worse it's design for design sake. I liked having the smaller calendar beside the larger one in the previous iteration of iCal. And best I can tell you can't even full screen Address Book. You can make it larger, but not full screen. Weird since it was redesigned for Lion which touts the full screen feature.
2) Doing Email replies in full screen mode is painful. Apple needs to free the reply window so it can be moved around the screen so if you want to reference another email while writing a replay you can.
1) The "updated" iCal and address book are a few steps back in both design and usability. Usually M$ copies Apple, here it seems to be the opposite. The mid-20th century design is rediculous but worse it's design for design sake. I liked having the smaller calendar beside the larger one in the previous iteration of iCal. And best I can tell you can't even full screen Address Book. You can make it larger, but not full screen. Weird since it was redesigned for Lion which touts the full screen feature.
2) Doing Email replies in full screen mode is painful. Apple needs to free the reply window so it can be moved around the screen so if you want to reference another email while writing a replay you can.
I never--repeat, never--accidentally zoomed in the finder, and I used pinch to zoom all the time. What's the point in having icon sizes that go ridiculously huge if you can't easily get them that big. The fact that you can preview a file right from the finder is an insanely awesome feature, but without pinch to zoom it's almost completely useless.