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Mac OS X Lion: 'Classic' Mail View Available, New Finder on Video
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I'm not to impressed yet.
I feel like most the interface changes are just for the sake of change. I looks nice, but thats really all. It doesn't feel or start any faster for me. I actually get random lags, not any pinwheel but just bits where it seems the OS is having a brief hang then catches back up. Maybe its just the animations.
I also have my nvidia card always on. I only have Adium and one Safari window with no flash and no tabs. Why is my dedicated GPU on?
On the dock there is no way to tell if I already have an App running or if its just an icon, there is nothing to tell me if that app is loaded or not.
While typing this post I keep getting blue lines under my words as if I am spelling them wrong but I'm not, and when I click on them it just gives me the normal menu which doesn't tell me why they are underlined with blue.
Also I miss the button to hide the menu bar.
I feel like most the interface changes are just for the sake of change. I looks nice, but thats really all. It doesn't feel or start any faster for me. I actually get random lags, not any pinwheel but just bits where it seems the OS is having a brief hang then catches back up. Maybe its just the animations.
I also have my nvidia card always on. I only have Adium and one Safari window with no flash and no tabs. Why is my dedicated GPU on?
On the dock there is no way to tell if I already have an App running or if its just an icon, there is nothing to tell me if that app is loaded or not.
While typing this post I keep getting blue lines under my words as if I am spelling them wrong but I'm not, and when I click on them it just gives me the normal menu which doesn't tell me why they are underlined with blue.
Also I miss the button to hide the menu bar.
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i see on yours and mine and the other guy's that the apps section all show 0kb used. maybe that part isnt implemented yet?
there's an option to turn indicator lights back on
I just found that, thanks.
How do I change the order of Favorites and Devices on the sidebar? I want my devices back on top.
look to be honest i don't care, but since i use the graphite theme/look i like because it grays it out like the rest of the operating system is when its on that setting.
just drag the labels to rearrange them
It doesn't let me. I can rearrange whats under the heading,s but not the headings themselves.
Finally resizing of the windows from every corner. This was the only thing in Mac OS X that really annoyed me since I switched to a Mac five years ago.
My favorite part of this "update" is the hidden scroll bars.
Not only does it fly in the face of Apple's UI standards, but IT HAS AN OPTION TO TURN IT ON/ OFF.
So, when we were fairly evenly divided on the Transparent Menus in Leopard they just TOOK THEM AWAY, no option! But now that they totally disregard their own standards they include an option. Pretty lame Apple. I'm totally sure my Mom would be able to figure that out...
Secondly, they didn't just ignore their own UI design, but the entire concept of UI design, by making the "view mode" into a slider that is exactly backward of everything logical. That's not just lame, it's stupid. My god, this crap extends all the way into the system prefs between "desktop/ screen saver" and "exposé/ spaces" and all the other title bars!!!!! I notice that the "buttons" works correctly for views in Font Book... nice consistency...
This idiocy started in Safari when they moved "stop/ refresh" to be in the address bar, not only reducing the size of the active area, but ruining the the way the loading bar indicated what was happening. That loading bar was a fantastic UI discovery. Then Apple destroyed it for NO REASON. The new way doesn't do anything better than the original way. It doesn't solve even ONE customer complaint, but it created some. Oh, but it "matches" the iOS... how retarded.
You know what would actually be helpful and slick? If Spotlight did the "spotlight" effect (like system prefs) when you are in icon mode searching a folder.
Now there's "Launch Pad." Wat? What is this, I don't even...?
New dashboard? That was a dumb move. Dashboard actually helped me do certain little things. But only because I was able to still see what was on the screen underneath...
The only nice things I have to say are about the redone Quicklook. Though I still can't find QL plugins for file types that would be helpful, like Adobe Illustrator and VOB builds. And what happened there too? VOB used to work in the preview column in column view, but then they took that "feature" away in Leopard. I used that constantly. Having to open my VOBs in VLC has been pretty annoying for the last few years.
The "new" Finder is slow. Yay. That's what I needed. Finder worked a little too quickly compared to Safari 5 and iTunes 10...
All in all, Apple's made some pretty bonehead moves over the last few years that have left me flaming pissed. Lion is no exception to this trend unfortunately...
Not only does it fly in the face of Apple's UI standards, but IT HAS AN OPTION TO TURN IT ON/ OFF.
So, when we were fairly evenly divided on the Transparent Menus in Leopard they just TOOK THEM AWAY, no option! But now that they totally disregard their own standards they include an option. Pretty lame Apple. I'm totally sure my Mom would be able to figure that out...
Secondly, they didn't just ignore their own UI design, but the entire concept of UI design, by making the "view mode" into a slider that is exactly backward of everything logical. That's not just lame, it's stupid. My god, this crap extends all the way into the system prefs between "desktop/ screen saver" and "exposé/ spaces" and all the other title bars!!!!! I notice that the "buttons" works correctly for views in Font Book... nice consistency...
This idiocy started in Safari when they moved "stop/ refresh" to be in the address bar, not only reducing the size of the active area, but ruining the the way the loading bar indicated what was happening. That loading bar was a fantastic UI discovery. Then Apple destroyed it for NO REASON. The new way doesn't do anything better than the original way. It doesn't solve even ONE customer complaint, but it created some. Oh, but it "matches" the iOS... how retarded.
You know what would actually be helpful and slick? If Spotlight did the "spotlight" effect (like system prefs) when you are in icon mode searching a folder.
Now there's "Launch Pad." Wat? What is this, I don't even...?
New dashboard? That was a dumb move. Dashboard actually helped me do certain little things. But only because I was able to still see what was on the screen underneath...
The only nice things I have to say are about the redone Quicklook. Though I still can't find QL plugins for file types that would be helpful, like Adobe Illustrator and VOB builds. And what happened there too? VOB used to work in the preview column in column view, but then they took that "feature" away in Leopard. I used that constantly. Having to open my VOBs in VLC has been pretty annoying for the last few years.
The "new" Finder is slow. Yay. That's what I needed. Finder worked a little too quickly compared to Safari 5 and iTunes 10...
All in all, Apple's made some pretty bonehead moves over the last few years that have left me flaming pissed. Lion is no exception to this trend unfortunately...
Lack of folder merging caught me out a few times, and each time I seriously considered changing OS's.
Like a bashed puppy I now have paranoid habits of folder dragging, that I honestly shouldnt have. Its the biggest set back as an OSX user for me.
theres in option in the expose menu to change it back to the old view
edit: didn't read your full post before but lion is actually faster on an external hard drive than slow leopard is on my internal harddrive atleast for me
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My god man, is everything going to be an OPTION box that I have to seek out?????
thx
You don't need to keep 9.. Google "itunes109" and you'll find a fix to get the colour back in the new version... i hate no colour and this saved me
i pray there will be one for the god awful finder soon...
Been playing with it for a few minutes now. the reverse scrolling would take some getting used to but i can see it working great on the trackpad.
One issue i have noticed so far with the scrollbars is that they do not appear on mouse over when using a wacom tablet. As someone who uses a magic mouse+tablet combo with most input being done on the tablet this has been quite frustrating.
Also, i have yet to find a way of deleting items from launchpad.
Fullscreen apps look good and the new quick look seems interesting. Gonna have to test to see if all my old quick look plugins still work though.
One issue i have noticed so far with the scrollbars is that they do not appear on mouse over when using a wacom tablet. As someone who uses a magic mouse+tablet combo with most input being done on the tablet this has been quite frustrating.
Also, i have yet to find a way of deleting items from launchpad.
Fullscreen apps look good and the new quick look seems interesting. Gonna have to test to see if all my old quick look plugins still work though.
Are you joking? it takes longer to mentally ID each one because colour is the first thing your brain ID's... you now have to read them to ID them rather than glance almost instantly at the colours. Think about it and you'll see. Think of an Album cover, lay your 15 favourite CD's out on the floor and be asked for a certain one. You'll find it instantly. Change all those lovely Album covers to identical black writing on a white background and you'll spend time reading through each one to find the one you want. It's not much time, but it's enough to make an annoying difference when you spend a lot of time in finder.
I don't know about the "quick look", but I know alt tab sucks in Mac OS compared to Windows. I would rather alt tab cycle every window vs every application.