No, it will spend 99% of the time sitting in a stack of all the other software and file backup discs. I have about 40 discs in that stack right now, a label will make it much easier to find.
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Snow Leopard - Hints, Tips and little changes
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No, it will spend 99% of the time sitting in a stack of all the other software and file backup discs. I have about 40 discs in that stack right now, a label will make it much easier to find.
A list of my findings:
- Preview.app: CMD-Delete sends the current image to the Finder TRASH.
- Clicking the pill button in Finder windows has an animation now.
- After dragging a selection box in the Finder, it fades out when you let go.
- All animations are much smoother now
- No horizontal tearing in Spaces anymore
- No horizontal tearing in Safari scrolling
- Lots of little subtle Finder animations
- Preferences icon shows list of Preference Panes when right clicked.
- When expanding a folder down in List View in the Finder, the icon changes to an opened icon.
- Spotlight: Window settings stick and you can add and remove columns (such as Date Modified, Last Opened, Kind) by hitting cmd-J
- Waking up a sleeping display no longer flickers when it awakes.
- Right-clicking a Dock menu and right-clicking again closes the menu (as it should.) In Leopard, the menu would keep popping up if you right clicked while it was already open.
- Apple changed the Stacks an animation to a zooming animation instead of the scattering icons animation. It's much smoother and more pleasing to look at.
- Apple FINALLY keeps the shadows on the Finder windows during a minimize. It used to bug me that the shadow would disappear and then the window would minimize. It looks much better now
- Shadows under windows are also retained when using Exposé. Again, looks better and doesn't show that flicker that Leopard had
- Ever since Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), when an app crashed while it was launching, every window from that point on would stutter when minimizing it. The only way to get it to be smooth again was to quit the Dock. Snow Leopard no longer does that. I'm very surprised by this.
- Scrolling in the Finder is smoother
- Finder preferences now includes an option to choose the default location for Finder searches (such as "Search the Current Folder" or "Search This Mac") I'm glad they finally put this back because when I wanna search the entire drive, I use the Spotlight menu, but when I'm in a folder, I want it to search just that folder.
- Finder prefs has an option to show or hide the warning when changing file extensions. I'm glad they finally added this. That dialog got annoying over time.
- Finder now has a "Path Bar": Very useful
- You can now hide the Finder sidebar without losing the unified window.
That's all I have for now. Tune in for more as I find them. I think I noticed more things last night but I can't remember them all right now.
- Preview.app: CMD-Delete sends the current image to the Finder TRASH.
- Clicking the pill button in Finder windows has an animation now.
- After dragging a selection box in the Finder, it fades out when you let go.
- All animations are much smoother now
- No horizontal tearing in Spaces anymore
- No horizontal tearing in Safari scrolling
- Lots of little subtle Finder animations
- Preferences icon shows list of Preference Panes when right clicked.
- When expanding a folder down in List View in the Finder, the icon changes to an opened icon.
- Spotlight: Window settings stick and you can add and remove columns (such as Date Modified, Last Opened, Kind) by hitting cmd-J
- Waking up a sleeping display no longer flickers when it awakes.
- Right-clicking a Dock menu and right-clicking again closes the menu (as it should.) In Leopard, the menu would keep popping up if you right clicked while it was already open.
- Apple changed the Stacks an animation to a zooming animation instead of the scattering icons animation. It's much smoother and more pleasing to look at.
- Apple FINALLY keeps the shadows on the Finder windows during a minimize. It used to bug me that the shadow would disappear and then the window would minimize. It looks much better now
- Shadows under windows are also retained when using Exposé. Again, looks better and doesn't show that flicker that Leopard had
- Ever since Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), when an app crashed while it was launching, every window from that point on would stutter when minimizing it. The only way to get it to be smooth again was to quit the Dock. Snow Leopard no longer does that. I'm very surprised by this.
- Scrolling in the Finder is smoother
- Finder preferences now includes an option to choose the default location for Finder searches (such as "Search the Current Folder" or "Search This Mac") I'm glad they finally put this back because when I wanna search the entire drive, I use the Spotlight menu, but when I'm in a folder, I want it to search just that folder.
- Finder prefs has an option to show or hide the warning when changing file extensions. I'm glad they finally added this. That dialog got annoying over time.
- Finder now has a "Path Bar": Very useful
- You can now hide the Finder sidebar without losing the unified window.
That's all I have for now. Tune in for more as I find them. I think I noticed more things last night but I can't remember them all right now.
That was an option before, its just been made the default now. It does look a lot better zoomed in though! Much less pixellated.
Some good finds! Sys Preferences would do that before too, but only when it was open, which made it hardly useful. I actually don’t like the new Stacks animation as much though. That warning about changing file extensions and the path bar were there in Leopard too.
I don't remember the pathbar being anything more than just a hack. If I remember correctly, it would show the path in the title of the window right? Now the path displays like the bottom of a spotlight window. I like the new path view better.
Also, I forgot about the System Preferences menu only when it's running. Snow Leopard shows it always.
So print "SNOW LEOPARD" on the case, or a photo of the animal, with the design indistinguishable from that of the original DVD.
That would be too much work now that I can use jessica.'s label. Why can't it look like the actual DVD?
Yes, that is new, and useful. With that on, clicking the app icon will restore minimize apps.
"Mac OS X 10.6 - Snow Leopard; now with MORE ways to lose your windows".
Haha!... no, I actually like it - now to find a USE for that.
All good finds but I can't believe you didn't notice the spotlight icon is 2 pixels smaller than in Leopard.
The Path Bar (at the bottom) was most definitely in Leopard.
However there are some other good little hints and tips in your post.
When pressing Command-Space to switch between input methods, you can now hold command to get an translucent window in the middle of the screen that lists by name all the input methods you have enabled, making it much easier to switch to a specific one.
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- Right clicking the tile of a window will show you a menu with the path to that folder. In Leopard, you had to cmd-click it to do that.
- The Dock now remembers the ACTUAL Dock size you set it to. In Leopard, you could set it to a certain size, and then when you rebooted or logged back in, it would be a few pixels LARGER (barely noticeable, but I noticed).
- Address Book window no longer shrinks each time you launch it. Seriously. Leopard's Address Book window would get a few pixels smaller every time you launched it until it was as small as it could get. The only way I was able to previously fix this, was to lock Address Book's preference file after I had the window set to the size I wanted.
Quick question: Right click on the toolbar of a Finder window. There's an option called "Keep Item Visible". What the heck does that do? It's ALREADY VISIBLE. I tried it checked and unchecked and it's exactly the same. Anyone have an idea of what it might mean?
- Right clicking the tile of a window will show you a menu with the path to that folder. In Leopard, you had to cmd-click it to do that.
- The Dock now remembers the ACTUAL Dock size you set it to. In Leopard, you could set it to a certain size, and then when you rebooted or logged back in, it would be a few pixels LARGER (barely noticeable, but I noticed).
- Address Book window no longer shrinks each time you launch it. Seriously. Leopard's Address Book window would get a few pixels smaller every time you launched it until it was as small as it could get. The only way I was able to previously fix this, was to lock Address Book's preference file after I had the window set to the size I wanted.
Quick question: Right click on the toolbar of a Finder window. There's an option called "Keep Item Visible". What the heck does that do? It's ALREADY VISIBLE. I tried it checked and unchecked and it's exactly the same. Anyone have an idea of what it might mean?
If you have an item in the tool bar checked as Always visible, it won't disappear. Try making the Finder window as small as possible, the item that you set it as Always visible, will not disappear but remain visible. I hope I make sense.
For example, I set the Action menu as always visible and here's what I get when I minimize the Finder window:
And here is the window when I don't set it as always visible:
If you have an item in the tool bar checked as Always visible, it won't disappear. Try making the Finder window as small as possible, the item that you set it as Always visible, will not disappear but remain visible. I hope I make sense.
For example, I set the Action menu as always visible and here's what I get when I minimize the Finder window:
And here is the window when I don't set it as always visible:
Thank you!
May I ask... why are you even doing this?... seems a waste of time to me, unless you plan to press your own batch!
What in the world is your issue buddy? It shouldn't be any of your concern how I waste my time.
