Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Post Your Leopard Gripes Here.
- Thread starter Agathon
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I can't be bothered to read through 7 pages. Has anyone encountered the brightness bezel with a dual screen setup, the second screen brightness bezel doesn't come up.
The brightness does increase/decrease but Leopard seems to think the main screen bezel is getting used though the bars don't move...
The brightness does increase/decrease but Leopard seems to think the main screen bezel is getting used though the bars don't move...
Umm. Photoshop CS3 is only $200 when you have a licensed copy of PS7.. So, pretty damn cheap, especially all the new features since CS2, and moreso since 7.
This seems like a totally idiotic regression to me, too. Why on Earth would they take out something that useful? And the new Front Row skip ahead and skip back are really annoying too. Plus the whole new Front Row look is nowhere near as graphically amazing as in Tiger. Call me weird but I would totally show off navigating into and around Front Row in Tiger to people, especially those who weren't Mac users, and it always got a lot of "ooohs" and "ahhhs." This new version is drab and sad comparatively.
Has anyone found a way to restore the Resume functionality?
I have to agree on this one. Front Row in Tiger was far superior, imo. It seems like the only reason they made these seemingly regressive changes is to make it look/function like AppleTV.
Brightness dim after a cold start
I am having a brightness problem as well. When I start my intel iMac the screen is almost always dim. I look at the brightness setting and it is all the way to the left. Anyone else have this problem?
Glennsan
I am having a brightness problem as well. When I start my intel iMac the screen is almost always dim. I look at the brightness setting and it is all the way to the left. Anyone else have this problem?
Glennsan
Leopard and Bootcamp
GRRRRRRRRRRRR
I've tried so many times to install Windows XP SP2 via Bootcamp..
I've even printed off the Installion instructions but no go.
I see the Bootcamp partition but the next Step does not ask me to "Initalize" the Partition. All I can do is Deleted it and re-create it...When I do that, it gives me the Missing or Corrupt Hal.dll file.
The instuctions mention not to Delete the Partition but I really have no choice because if I try to continue the Install with the BootCamp partition, I then get the Disk Error....
I've even made a new copy of the XP disc but no luck...Same error(s)
This is sooo frustrating
GRRRRRRRRRRRR
I've tried so many times to install Windows XP SP2 via Bootcamp..
I've even printed off the Installion instructions but no go.
I see the Bootcamp partition but the next Step does not ask me to "Initalize" the Partition. All I can do is Deleted it and re-create it...When I do that, it gives me the Missing or Corrupt Hal.dll file.
The instuctions mention not to Delete the Partition but I really have no choice because if I try to continue the Install with the BootCamp partition, I then get the Disk Error....
I've even made a new copy of the XP disc but no luck...Same error(s)
This is sooo frustrating
Another one, don't know if its been mentioned in the past 7 pages...
Upon startup after activating Dashboard, certain Dashboard widgets have not loaded. All thats there is the blank graphic with none of the data.
It's happened with the BBC Weather widget, Macworld widget, MacUpdate, sometimes the Unit Converter widget. Sometimes certain World clocks are blank as well, as in no hands. CMD + r doesn't solve it, sometimes a few to five minutes later they are all functioning. It's weird.
Logging out or restarting Dashboard doesn't solve it. Weirdness, yet nothing has hung.
[Edit] Turns out what it would appear was the TrafficStats v0.99 widget not playing nice with Leopard's Dashboard.
Still testing to see if its that... but so far all widgets have loaded after startup just fine...
Upon startup after activating Dashboard, certain Dashboard widgets have not loaded. All thats there is the blank graphic with none of the data.
It's happened with the BBC Weather widget, Macworld widget, MacUpdate, sometimes the Unit Converter widget. Sometimes certain World clocks are blank as well, as in no hands. CMD + r doesn't solve it, sometimes a few to five minutes later they are all functioning. It's weird.
Logging out or restarting Dashboard doesn't solve it. Weirdness, yet nothing has hung.
[Edit] Turns out what it would appear was the TrafficStats v0.99 widget not playing nice with Leopard's Dashboard.
Still testing to see if its that... but so far all widgets have loaded after startup just fine...
My big Leopard gripe is: It seems like Apple pulled a Microsoft on this one. First they delayed the launch (although it wasn't a Vista-esque delay at least!); and now that it's been released, it feels like we're all being used as beta testers. I know a couple people that chose this moment to switch to Mac, and they're now saying to me "but I thought switching to Mac meant things would 'just work'"? But there are problems with undeletable duplicate synced iCal entries (common); problems printing to shared Windows printers (common); sporadic problems logging out of an account (common); programs that now have to be run at least once from an admin account before they'll work correctly *cough* Aperture *cough*, etc.
10.2 -> 10.3 and 10.3 -> 10.4 had a few odd issues; but all in all they were great upgrades right out of the box. Leopard will probably be a great OS, eventually - but right now it has a lot of shortcomings.
10.2 -> 10.3 and 10.3 -> 10.4 had a few odd issues; but all in all they were great upgrades right out of the box. Leopard will probably be a great OS, eventually - but right now it has a lot of shortcomings.
they killed the best part of the dock. stacks is less than worthless.
i say "less than worthless" because in addition to offering no new value, it subtracted value by "replacing" the wonderful tiger functionality of dock folders that could be navigated hierarchically.
i don't want to spend $30 bucks on dragthing to get my system to be as efficient as it was before i "upgraded." folder aliases don't cut it because the whole appeal of hierarchical folder menu navigation is that you can get anywhere you want with only one click and without leaving a mess of open windows behind you.
it's also baffling because keeping that functionality intact would not be at all cluttering or confusing to the user. just make it another option in the stack display, or let us choose between stacks and folder menus in preferences.
even more baffling though, for sure, is the icon selection for stacks. i mean, that has to be the worst idea in modern os history! seriously, what could they have been thinking?
the lack of sidebar in ical is terrible also!
the menu bar transparency was easy enough to get rid of by photoshopping my desktop pictures--but still annoying that i'll have to alter any future desktop pictures before using them.
on the plus side, quickview is very very handy. i love that. general stability and responsiveness have improved for me too (except column view of folders that haven't been accessed recently--too sluggish). that's what's keeping me from downgrading. that and xmenu.
i say "less than worthless" because in addition to offering no new value, it subtracted value by "replacing" the wonderful tiger functionality of dock folders that could be navigated hierarchically.
i don't want to spend $30 bucks on dragthing to get my system to be as efficient as it was before i "upgraded." folder aliases don't cut it because the whole appeal of hierarchical folder menu navigation is that you can get anywhere you want with only one click and without leaving a mess of open windows behind you.
it's also baffling because keeping that functionality intact would not be at all cluttering or confusing to the user. just make it another option in the stack display, or let us choose between stacks and folder menus in preferences.
even more baffling though, for sure, is the icon selection for stacks. i mean, that has to be the worst idea in modern os history! seriously, what could they have been thinking?
the lack of sidebar in ical is terrible also!
the menu bar transparency was easy enough to get rid of by photoshopping my desktop pictures--but still annoying that i'll have to alter any future desktop pictures before using them.
on the plus side, quickview is very very handy. i love that. general stability and responsiveness have improved for me too (except column view of folders that haven't been accessed recently--too sluggish). that's what's keeping me from downgrading. that and xmenu.
Leopard GUI is just a polished piece of [bleep]
After using previous versions of Mac OS X the new Leopard GUI is a nice breath of fresh air. However, at the same time I think Apple could have done much, much better in the 2+ years they had to work with. Previous versions of Mac OS X really were piles of [bleep], and Leopard just adds a little polish to the crap.
Why do we still have dumb, jelleybean, aqua GUI elements throughout Leopard? Why still the ugly aqua scroll bars and the butt-ugly GUI elements of the scroll bar corners, window edges, the column view dialog windows, etc??? Mac OS X just seems way more dis-jointed than it should be.
After using previous versions of Mac OS X the new Leopard GUI is a nice breath of fresh air. However, at the same time I think Apple could have done much, much better in the 2+ years they had to work with. Previous versions of Mac OS X really were piles of [bleep], and Leopard just adds a little polish to the crap.
Why do we still have dumb, jelleybean, aqua GUI elements throughout Leopard? Why still the ugly aqua scroll bars and the butt-ugly GUI elements of the scroll bar corners, window edges, the column view dialog windows, etc??? Mac OS X just seems way more dis-jointed than it should be.
I'm used to dragging Finder folders or files into a Terminal window to "type" the path to the folder or file. But now that I keep my Terminal window in another Space, I can't find a way to do that.
They changed it because FR for Tiger was SLOW. FR2 even on my PB is quite fast because it uses the core media manager in Leopard. Although, I do agree that it stopping music playback when you go back to the desktop sucks that and you can't use it with AirTunes pretty much means it's worthless for me and my wife (MB).
While dragging the file or folder hit F8 (Spaces) and drag it to the space you want and hit F8 again and drop it in OR you can drag the file or folder and then hit Ctrl+the space # (Ctrl+1 etc.). Both worked for me.
I must be doing something wrong. When I drag a file, press F8 for Spaces, hover over one Space, and hit F8, it puts me back in my original Space. I can't click into the new Space since I'm dragging.
Terminal windows are something I set to live across all spaces - that may not be what you want, but it'd solve this particular problem.
I set the System Preferences the same way.
Thats annoying the crap out of me.
[Edit] Another one, drag any app to the Applications sidebar/list and it'll say you don't have sufficient privileges on a non Admin account. Even when I authenticate. The only way it'll work is to actually open the Applications directory, and drag the app there to install it. Then it will prompt for the Admin authentication, which it is then allowed to be installed.
Finder refresh in Preview Mode
Dog gone it. I often review many hundreds of photos at a time through the Finder in Preview mode. I do not understand why I need to wait 2 or 3 seconds for each picture to go from fuzzy to detailed. It is as if the video card is either quite slow or has nearly enough memory or both. I know this 24" iMac has onl got like 144mb of video RAM but still, there should be a way to tweak this speed.
Dog gone it. I often review many hundreds of photos at a time through the Finder in Preview mode. I do not understand why I need to wait 2 or 3 seconds for each picture to go from fuzzy to detailed. It is as if the video card is either quite slow or has nearly enough memory or both. I know this 24" iMac has onl got like 144mb of video RAM but still, there should be a way to tweak this speed.
A minor, but annoying, glitch in Terminal:
1. I open a Terminal window.
2. If I open another window (command-N), the new window is offset on the screen from the first window, which is good.
3. If I open a new tab (command-T), the new tab appears in the same window, which is good.
4. But... If I open a new window (command-N) after previously opening a new tab (command-T), the new window is placed exactly over the previous window, rather than being offset on the screen.
This bug has momentarily startled me a few times (I thought the old window was gone), until I spotted the pattern and learned to expect it.
1. I open a Terminal window.
2. If I open another window (command-N), the new window is offset on the screen from the first window, which is good.
3. If I open a new tab (command-T), the new tab appears in the same window, which is good.
4. But... If I open a new window (command-N) after previously opening a new tab (command-T), the new window is placed exactly over the previous window, rather than being offset on the screen.
This bug has momentarily startled me a few times (I thought the old window was gone), until I spotted the pattern and learned to expect it.
1) Wireless connection is abysmal on both my mbp and mac pro. was fine on my powerbook g4 15inch
2) the whole system just doesn't feel like it's operating as fast as it should
3) it gobbles up heaps of ram, way more than it should. it's ridiculous how much doing simple things uses. sometimes the sum of the processes (all processes view) doesn't add up to how much is ACTUALLY being used, it's way less. yet the pie chart says that less is actually free. something is messed up.
4) some animations are really slow, stacks etc
5) nvidia 8800 drivers suck for core image animations etc
6) did i mention the wireless?
yeah, i did a clean install on both machines and didn't migrate anything...
the most annoying thing is the wireless. i work in a room with an imac 2.8ghz 24inch running tiger, and it ALWAYS has full wireless signal. my $4000 mac pro with thousands of dollars of ra, hd's, blah blah can't keep a connection to save its life. or sometimes it's fine and my mbp (right next to it) can't get a connection at all.
it's driving me mad
2) the whole system just doesn't feel like it's operating as fast as it should
3) it gobbles up heaps of ram, way more than it should. it's ridiculous how much doing simple things uses. sometimes the sum of the processes (all processes view) doesn't add up to how much is ACTUALLY being used, it's way less. yet the pie chart says that less is actually free. something is messed up.
4) some animations are really slow, stacks etc
5) nvidia 8800 drivers suck for core image animations etc
6) did i mention the wireless?
yeah, i did a clean install on both machines and didn't migrate anything...
the most annoying thing is the wireless. i work in a room with an imac 2.8ghz 24inch running tiger, and it ALWAYS has full wireless signal. my $4000 mac pro with thousands of dollars of ra, hd's, blah blah can't keep a connection to save its life. or sometimes it's fine and my mbp (right next to it) can't get a connection at all.
it's driving me mad
I agree that they totally FUBARed the Spotlight windows. It was soo usable in Tiger i could easily jump to categories and find what i wanted but in Leopard its just a big unorganised Finder window of search results. I have no clue what the hell they were thinking.
Front Row is also a step back for all the reasons mentioned in the thread.
Finder still struggles with networking
The 3D Dock is ugly
I still think they could've eased off a little on the Greyness of UI elements. Its too dark IMO
Stacks was abysmal but thank God they mitigated that
Drivers for GPUs seem to really suck. Since even the most powerful graphics cards seem to be struggling with animations
Its a good OS, its faster, more powerful but they simply should've have left somethings as they were rather than changing them for changing sake
Front Row is also a step back for all the reasons mentioned in the thread.
Finder still struggles with networking
The 3D Dock is ugly
I still think they could've eased off a little on the Greyness of UI elements. Its too dark IMO
Stacks was abysmal but thank God they mitigated that
Drivers for GPUs seem to really suck. Since even the most powerful graphics cards seem to be struggling with animations
Its a good OS, its faster, more powerful but they simply should've have left somethings as they were rather than changing them for changing sake