Is anyone having issues when unmounting disk images? Yesterday I had to reboot my MB to get rid of the Google Earth disk image after installing it... (BTW, seems to work a lot smoother on Leopard 
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It is. But, I hate it. It's so boxy and uncool. They need a nice smooth icon like those in certain CandyBar iContainers.
Stacks is all but useless, most glaringly for the Apps folder. Aliases are a partial workaround, but having to move an alias to a new folder in order to be able to drag it to the dock is dumb and annoying. I think Stacks was a typo. Obviously it should be called Lacks. Does Apple really expect our moms and grandmas to understand that just because they see the Address Book icon (or whatever icon comes first) that clicking it won't open the address book , but instead a giant grid of icons with only partial names showing (and representing only a partial list of apps)?
Safariblock doesn't work for me, even with the chown command. Pimpkit/Plugsuit didn't work either.
The "find in page" in Safari used to highlight in a slick orange with white border, now it's an ugly yellow.
My custom folder icons are gone until Candybar comes up to speed.
The red/yellow/green finder buttons look washed out.
Sidebar icons are tiny.
PNG thumbnails have lost their transparency. Ugly.
More to come I'm sure...
Safariblock doesn't work for me, even with the chown command. Pimpkit/Plugsuit didn't work either.
The "find in page" in Safari used to highlight in a slick orange with white border, now it's an ugly yellow.
My custom folder icons are gone until Candybar comes up to speed.
The red/yellow/green finder buttons look washed out.
Sidebar icons are tiny.
PNG thumbnails have lost their transparency. Ugly.
More to come I'm sure...
Is anyone else having problems with waking up your MBP from sleep and having the trackpad mouse be...skippy...across the screen? In other words when woken up my mouse movement is not smooth...
Help??
Help??
Well I call 10.5 a success story cause when 10.4 came out there were alot more people bitching and whining about how the way you did things in 10.3 was so much better.
But I know it's hard to change, for better or for worse.
But I know it's hard to change, for better or for worse.
It didn't Quick Look my Appleworks files. Does Leopard not include a Quick Look plug-in for Appleworks?
I'm not liking this tendency to bring up a security confirmation to run a program I just downloaded from the internet... instantly reminded me of Windows.....
Isn't this what we hate Microsoft for doing? Of course I want to run it otherwise I wouldn't have downloaded it!!! Whats worse is I can't find a way to turn it off....
Isn't this what we hate Microsoft for doing? Of course I want to run it otherwise I wouldn't have downloaded it!!! Whats worse is I can't find a way to turn it off....
Overall, a great improvement. Spaces are cool. A few gripes...
- 3D Dock icons 'shuffle' a few pixels to the left then right again occasionally. When this happens, the machine becomes unresponsive, music playing back in iTunes pauses (reminds me of Windows 98!!!!)
- Quick Look of Word documents is a joke, not showing the full page and having scroll bars top & bottom, moving to full-screen actually makes the view smaller, so the screen is black, with a small white box in the centre containing the document!
- Quick look of PDFs doesnt have a document navigator next to it. Difficult to appreciate which page your are on.
- Quick look of .WMV files takes 9 seconds to open (with "Loading" displayed in the quick look window. Quicktime opens the file (afresh) in 8 seconds. This is with the Flip4Mac component.
- iDisk in Finder no longer opens!! "You iDisk cannot be accessed. Your member name or password may be invalid. an unexpected error occurred (error code -35)".... windows 'Random Error' anyone?
- iCal - Menu item: 'Calendar -> Find Shared Calendars' opens a 'page not found' page on the apple website.
- iCal - Preferences - Accounts - Help button does nothing. I want to know what CalDAV account is, help on this page should 'help me'
I am sure there is more I havent found yet...
But like I said, overall it is a superb update. These are minor niggles (apart from iDisk which I need to get sorted).
Looking forward to an update soon
- 3D Dock icons 'shuffle' a few pixels to the left then right again occasionally. When this happens, the machine becomes unresponsive, music playing back in iTunes pauses (reminds me of Windows 98!!!!
)- Quick Look of Word documents is a joke, not showing the full page and having scroll bars top & bottom, moving to full-screen actually makes the view smaller, so the screen is black, with a small white box in the centre containing the document!
- Quick look of PDFs doesnt have a document navigator next to it. Difficult to appreciate which page your are on.
- Quick look of .WMV files takes 9 seconds to open (with "Loading" displayed in the quick look window. Quicktime opens the file (afresh) in 8 seconds. This is with the Flip4Mac component.
- iDisk in Finder no longer opens!! "You iDisk cannot be accessed. Your member name or password may be invalid. an unexpected error occurred (error code -35)".... windows 'Random Error' anyone?
- iCal - Menu item: 'Calendar -> Find Shared Calendars' opens a 'page not found' page on the apple website.
- iCal - Preferences - Accounts - Help button does nothing. I want to know what CalDAV account is, help on this page should 'help me'
I am sure there is more I havent found yet...
But like I said, overall it is a superb update. These are minor niggles (apart from iDisk which I need to get sorted).
Looking forward to an update soon
Macbook 2GHz C2D
- When I grab Finder window (or any other) and move slightly.. its very sluggish. Wiggle it side to side.. almost as if it doesn't refresh properly?
- The crazy wide shadows that appear over small windows are sluggish.. sometimes take .5second to appear, making it look outright ridiculous
- When Im in Finder and I want to Eject a disk, Finder closes after pressing Eject. What on earth is with this????
- My parallels doesn't work yet.. though downloading to reinstall.
- Stacks for Applications are useless since you cant scroll down through them. I'd like to be able to scroll down the grid to find my app.
- (For example. the shadow on the "Are you sure you want to delete?" Trash confirmation appears after the dialog itself.. HORRIBLE!)
- You cant Quicklook from a Stack
- The text in the menu bars and title bars is AWFUL. It's nowhere near smooth, and when I look at it from an angle, it seems all pixelated. What's up here??
- Finder DOES NOT keep each FOLDER different settings. For example, I like my DOWNLOADS folder in list view, but my APPLICATIONS folder in Icon view. It does not remember, therefore I have to keep changing??
- Finder Preferences discusses "Spring load folder" and hit "Spacebar to open immediately". Spacebar launches Quicklook. This is well thought out..........
- When I have selected my highlight effect to be GRAPHITE (NOT AQUA BLUE!!) when I get "popup" boxes, eg: enter password in System Preferences; when I highlight, it ignores my setting and does Blue anyway!!)
- When you ZOOM (ctrl+scroll) in a SMALL bit and move your mouse (bounce it around a bit), it automatically jumps out of zoom mode..
- When I make a Finder window bigger, and "Clean up" to have the icons spread over.. well, when I make it smaller, the icons dont move with it?
- When I have the "Flash on alert sounds" thing on for errors.. well, when I flick between options in FrontRow, it flashes and beeps constantly!!
Overall I'm pretty dissapointed. Everything is fine apart from that above. But overall, it feels very Vista-like, or bulky or something.. I can't quite describe it. I did an Archive & Install, Spotlight has finished doing its thing, and I've restarted a few times.
Matt
- When I grab Finder window (or any other) and move slightly.. its very sluggish. Wiggle it side to side.. almost as if it doesn't refresh properly?
- The crazy wide shadows that appear over small windows are sluggish.. sometimes take .5second to appear, making it look outright ridiculous
- When Im in Finder and I want to Eject a disk, Finder closes after pressing Eject. What on earth is with this????
- My parallels doesn't work yet.. though downloading to reinstall.
- Stacks for Applications are useless since you cant scroll down through them. I'd like to be able to scroll down the grid to find my app.
- (For example. the shadow on the "Are you sure you want to delete?" Trash confirmation appears after the dialog itself.. HORRIBLE!)
- You cant Quicklook from a Stack
- The text in the menu bars and title bars is AWFUL. It's nowhere near smooth, and when I look at it from an angle, it seems all pixelated. What's up here??
- Finder DOES NOT keep each FOLDER different settings. For example, I like my DOWNLOADS folder in list view, but my APPLICATIONS folder in Icon view. It does not remember, therefore I have to keep changing??
- Finder Preferences discusses "Spring load folder" and hit "Spacebar to open immediately". Spacebar launches Quicklook. This is well thought out..........
- When I have selected my highlight effect to be GRAPHITE (NOT AQUA BLUE!!) when I get "popup" boxes, eg: enter password in System Preferences; when I highlight, it ignores my setting and does Blue anyway!!)
- When you ZOOM (ctrl+scroll) in a SMALL bit and move your mouse (bounce it around a bit), it automatically jumps out of zoom mode..
- When I make a Finder window bigger, and "Clean up" to have the icons spread over.. well, when I make it smaller, the icons dont move with it?
- When I have the "Flash on alert sounds" thing on for errors.. well, when I flick between options in FrontRow, it flashes and beeps constantly!!
Overall I'm pretty dissapointed. Everything is fine apart from that above. But overall, it feels very Vista-like, or bulky or something.. I can't quite describe it. I did an Archive & Install, Spotlight has finished doing its thing, and I've restarted a few times.
Matt
small gripe
I noticed that when trying to select a desktop background in System Preference's Desktop and Screen Save option, that I cannot access all my images. I normally keep my background images in a folder name Backgrounds [clever ain't it] in the Pictures folder. When I try to select a background it will show images in the Pictures folder, the Apple backgrounds and my iPhoto library. I can no longer see the sub-folder.
I don't want to keep the backgrounds in iPhoto, so I have to move the image out of the sub-folder and place it directly in the Pictures folder
I noticed that when trying to select a desktop background in System Preference's Desktop and Screen Save option, that I cannot access all my images. I normally keep my background images in a folder name Backgrounds [clever ain't it
] in the Pictures folder. When I try to select a background it will show images in the Pictures folder, the Apple backgrounds and my iPhoto library. I can no longer see the sub-folder. I don't want to keep the backgrounds in iPhoto, so I have to move the image out of the sub-folder and place it directly in the Pictures folder
Parallels works for me, perhaps reinstalling will solve your problem
Finder only remembers each folders view mode if you explicitly tell it for that particular folder (in the view options). I think this is silly and it should remember the last view you used for a folder like you said.
Spring loaded folders seam to work fine for me? I don't know where your gripes is here? When dragging something to a folder, after the specified time the folder springs open, it also springs open when you hit space.
It bugs me that when I spellcheck a text area and I don't change the last word that it stops on, it no longer clears the fields to indicate that you've reached the end of the text. In other words, this happens when I click Ignore on the last "suspicious" word.
I leave the Finder Preferences "Always open folders in a new window" option unchecked. I like to navigate in a single window.
Under Leopard, selecting an enclosing folder from the Path drop-down in the toolbar still properly observes the Preference setting, but selecting an enclosing folder by option-clicking on the window title no longer observes the Preference setting. It always opens in a new window.
Under Leopard, selecting an enclosing folder from the Path drop-down in the toolbar still properly observes the Preference setting, but selecting an enclosing folder by option-clicking on the window title no longer observes the Preference setting. It always opens in a new window.
+ T is so easy!
How do you do that?
I have trouble with colors and I really need to fix this.
No set folder views using 'forward' and 'back' buttons in finder
John Siracusa's review I thought was pretty good - but I can add one thing to it:
If you set a folder view (via 'View Options') to a certain view, it will remember that view IF the folder is opened by double-clicking on it, or by selecting it from the side-bar. But, if you happen to reach that folder again whilst using the 'forward' and 'back' buttons in a finder window, it WON'T remember the set view. It'll just appear in the same view as the previously seen folder's view.
This views thing is a complete turkey in my opinion, but second only to the "pile of crap" that you're forced to see as a dock folder item!!! What were Apple thinking?
John Siracusa's review I thought was pretty good - but I can add one thing to it:
If you set a folder view (via 'View Options') to a certain view, it will remember that view IF the folder is opened by double-clicking on it, or by selecting it from the side-bar. But, if you happen to reach that folder again whilst using the 'forward' and 'back' buttons in a finder window, it WON'T remember the set view. It'll just appear in the same view as the previously seen folder's view.
This views thing is a complete turkey in my opinion, but second only to the "pile of crap" that you're forced to see as a dock folder item!!! What were Apple thinking?
I just installed Leopard. My gripes so far:
The 'Solid Colors' section of the "Desktop System Preferences" still doesn't include a color choose, but rather a few select solid colors Apple assumes you want. I do not like this.
Also, I have an old iPod that I would like to use Time Machine with. Leopard will not natively allow this, that I can see. Yes, I realize this might not be very reliable, but I still wanted to try it.
There are not enough gui customization options (ie. changing the opacity of the menubar, changing the appearance of the dock, etc...)
when unarchiving *.tar.gz files, it first ungzipps, then untars the new file. This is fine, but it could use the gui as a front end to 'tar -zxvf filename" instead. I could be wrong, but I think the way it's implemented here requires much more disk space to complete.
These are kind of superficial, but still annoy me.
The 'Solid Colors' section of the "Desktop System Preferences" still doesn't include a color choose, but rather a few select solid colors Apple assumes you want. I do not like this.
Also, I have an old iPod that I would like to use Time Machine with. Leopard will not natively allow this, that I can see. Yes, I realize this might not be very reliable, but I still wanted to try it.
There are not enough gui customization options (ie. changing the opacity of the menubar, changing the appearance of the dock, etc...)
when unarchiving *.tar.gz files, it first ungzipps, then untars the new file. This is fine, but it could use the gui as a front end to 'tar -zxvf filename" instead. I could be wrong, but I think the way it's implemented here requires much more disk space to complete.
These are kind of superficial, but still annoy me.
Yes Yes! finally somebody brought up this issue. Leopard can only see one of my wifi networks at a time and it doesn't see the others which makes switching quite impossible. Did you do an upgrade? because I did and I wonder if that's what's causing it.
I've thought about it but I just like an unaltered UI if possible with something elegant like the hierarchical folder browsing. But thanks for the suggestion.