I'm afraid I've only skimmed over the previous posts in this thread, so apologies if I repeat things that have been said. Here's the issues I'm having with Tiger (upgraded directly from 10.3.9). Some are bugs, some are missing features:
Mail doesn't show any activity whatsoever of what's going on. In Mail in Panther, there was the little status bar between the toolbar and the message pane which told you when you were connecting to the server, receiving mail, sending mail, etc. Now you have to bring the "Activity Viewer" window up to see this. This is a
real step backward.
I cannot quantify this, but Exposé feels choppier in Tiger than Panther. While it could be an effect of my upgrade as opposed to a clean install, it fits in with other accounts I've read of what similar machines to mine are experiencing. My GPU is not Core Image compliant, but this surely shouldn't affect it.
Automator - great app, but it's very sluggish. It's hung three times during basic three step workflows.
Preview. So many things are wrong here it's not funny.
First, PDF rendering feels about half the speed it was with Panther.
Secondly, in Panther there was a general option to make viewing PDFs continuous, so you could drag from the start of the document to the end without clicking a next page button. In Tiger, it appears to be a per-document setting. This is Bad. It was in the prefs in Panther; why not in Tiger?
Thirdly, you can only get the drag option (the little hand which you use to move around a document that's bigger than your screen) if you're viewing a PDF, but you used to be able to do it with any image. On a 1024x768 screen, the lack of this option for jpegs, pngs, tiffs etc is almost criminal.
Finder. I know a lot have complained about random viewing stupidities in smart folders and the like, so I won't go over that. What I will mention though is the cool slideshow option. They're good, but you can't add a toolbar option to toggle them, which is silly.
This is the biggie though. In Spotlight, if you search for a certain filename of images, and click the slideshow button above the results, you get this:
And when you click on the "Index Sheet" button, you see all the images in the result shown.
Bloody brilliant. But what of the Finder? Let's see.
I select the slideshow option as you have to, from the Action Button (though I could have done it by a right click. What comes up?
This. That's right, a slideshow of
one image. What the bloody hell is the point of this??? Is it not unreasonable to have the index sheet and the previous/next image button in Finder slideshows too? You still have to select all the images you want in Finder slideshows, which annoys me massively. It wouldn't hurt to put the next/previous image on slideshows from the Finder
without selecting multiple images first. It almost makes the option redundant - there's no simple way to access them, then they're crippled unless you select multiple images. Windows XP has allowed basic full screen slideshows through a folder since the first release in 2001 - how has OS X still managed to miss this? (This really really annoys me, as you may note.)
There's probably other things I've not really noticed yet, but I've had it less than a day, more will come.
To everyone - the
Mac OS X Feedback Page still doesn't offer 10.4 as an OS option, but as soon as it does, be sure to submit your issues to Apple. Otherwise, they may well remain unfixed.
