Spotlight:
Way different than it use to be. It's faster now but, where's my simple, easy to use Spotlight Window? Now, when you click "Show All" it just switches to a plain Finder window with all your results in it. Also, "Show All" in the Spotlight menu doesn't tell you how many results you have anymore... in Tiger, it says "Show All (356)" where 356 would be the number of items it found.
Another thing that is bothering me about Spotlight is trying to Search from the Finder. If I use the Search field in a Finder Window, I am most likely trying to search JUST that folder and all the folders within it but, the Finder reverts to searching the entire drive as default no matter what you chose last time. I use the Spotlight MENU if I wanna search the entire drive.
Oh, and Icon view is the most useless Spotlight view there is. All the names are terribly truncated and you can't read half of them or how about List view, there are no longer any categories to sort results with and there's also no way to get rid of that horizontal scroll bar no matter how big your spotlight window is, you'll always get a horizontal scroll bar when you do a search in it... that's visually annoying because I hate horizontal scroll bars.
Now for the Finder:
The Finder isn't very good at remembering window views... in fact, it doesn't really remember them at all. If you switch to list view... suddenly ALL folders are list view and it's like this for all the different views. The only way around this is to open up the view settings window for every folder that you wish to have a different view and say "Always Open in List View" but, that doesn't work 100% of the time because when you finally get to your custom List View folder, it changes all the folders beyond that to List View as well... so what was the point of that?
There are no more scroll wells in list view anymore... looks weird and it makes it hard to line up the window edges with the icons nicely.
Can't really get rid of sources in the side bar, you can collapse them but, you can't remove them... I wanna get rid of my Searches section.
The Dock:
Stacks are just going backwards! I don't see the point of a stack. How does this make things any easier or more efficient. I actually see it as less efficient because if there's too many items in a stack, you have to view them in the Finder anyway! You used to be able to put your entire hard drive in the Dock and then browse through the menus to find a file you needed without ever leaving the current App you're in. Can't do that anymore.
The 3D Dock also don't make sense compared to everything else in the System because everything else looks flat... as if you're looking DOWN on it. Windows and icons are slightly raised above the surface to give them some depth but, everything looks as if you're looking from above onto a desk-type surface (hence the Desktop). The Dock looks way out of place because it seems as if you're looking out into it because it's perspective is completely different than the perspective of ANYTHING else in the entire OS. I liked the flatter look. It fit better in the OS. Now, I know I can hack the Dock to have the 2D effect (which I did) but, it seems like they made the background of it way too dark. Some of my icons look so weird on such a dark background.... I wish I could change the opacity of it to something more like the Tiger Dock, then I'd be happy.
When you drag icons over icons in the Dock, the icon title slides around for no particular reason.... it seems random too... it doesn't always slide in the same direction. At first, I thought, hey maybe it's following my cursor but, then I hovered over another App and it slid from the opposite direction. I'm not really sure why this is like that.
There's a lot more but, I'll shut up for now. I just wanted to let people know what they're getting in to before they purchase Leopard. Some functions are gone, some functions don't work properly and some functions just don't make any sense.
Way different than it use to be. It's faster now but, where's my simple, easy to use Spotlight Window? Now, when you click "Show All" it just switches to a plain Finder window with all your results in it. Also, "Show All" in the Spotlight menu doesn't tell you how many results you have anymore... in Tiger, it says "Show All (356)" where 356 would be the number of items it found.
Another thing that is bothering me about Spotlight is trying to Search from the Finder. If I use the Search field in a Finder Window, I am most likely trying to search JUST that folder and all the folders within it but, the Finder reverts to searching the entire drive as default no matter what you chose last time. I use the Spotlight MENU if I wanna search the entire drive.
Oh, and Icon view is the most useless Spotlight view there is. All the names are terribly truncated and you can't read half of them or how about List view, there are no longer any categories to sort results with and there's also no way to get rid of that horizontal scroll bar no matter how big your spotlight window is, you'll always get a horizontal scroll bar when you do a search in it... that's visually annoying because I hate horizontal scroll bars.
Now for the Finder:
The Finder isn't very good at remembering window views... in fact, it doesn't really remember them at all. If you switch to list view... suddenly ALL folders are list view and it's like this for all the different views. The only way around this is to open up the view settings window for every folder that you wish to have a different view and say "Always Open in List View" but, that doesn't work 100% of the time because when you finally get to your custom List View folder, it changes all the folders beyond that to List View as well... so what was the point of that?
There are no more scroll wells in list view anymore... looks weird and it makes it hard to line up the window edges with the icons nicely.
Can't really get rid of sources in the side bar, you can collapse them but, you can't remove them... I wanna get rid of my Searches section.
The Dock:
Stacks are just going backwards! I don't see the point of a stack. How does this make things any easier or more efficient. I actually see it as less efficient because if there's too many items in a stack, you have to view them in the Finder anyway! You used to be able to put your entire hard drive in the Dock and then browse through the menus to find a file you needed without ever leaving the current App you're in. Can't do that anymore.
The 3D Dock also don't make sense compared to everything else in the System because everything else looks flat... as if you're looking DOWN on it. Windows and icons are slightly raised above the surface to give them some depth but, everything looks as if you're looking from above onto a desk-type surface (hence the Desktop). The Dock looks way out of place because it seems as if you're looking out into it because it's perspective is completely different than the perspective of ANYTHING else in the entire OS. I liked the flatter look. It fit better in the OS. Now, I know I can hack the Dock to have the 2D effect (which I did) but, it seems like they made the background of it way too dark. Some of my icons look so weird on such a dark background.... I wish I could change the opacity of it to something more like the Tiger Dock, then I'd be happy.
When you drag icons over icons in the Dock, the icon title slides around for no particular reason.... it seems random too... it doesn't always slide in the same direction. At first, I thought, hey maybe it's following my cursor but, then I hovered over another App and it slid from the opposite direction. I'm not really sure why this is like that.
There's a lot more but, I'll shut up for now. I just wanted to let people know what they're getting in to before they purchase Leopard. Some functions are gone, some functions don't work properly and some functions just don't make any sense.
