Reader Survey: Leopard the (bad) little things

Hey, anyone having this problem with Leopard? Every time I open an application, its window becomes inactive within seconds. I have to click it to make it active again. Unfortunately, within a few seconds its inactive again. Very frustrating!

Our Retrospect Backup system is now having major problems. Even with the update from Retrospect. Our computers are freezing when trying to print, or will display wied error messages on our printed pages.

The new iChat will not let you close one message, then start a new one in a different window. Multiple messages are automatically grouped into one. I've tried everything to change this and cannot!!

Just found this site and read the "Things I don't like about Leopard". Some of you must have a different version to mine! #34: iCal and iPod event sync works great with my Nano 3G; #52: Calculator works fine as does iSight *#33) and British units in the currency converter (Comment # 7 from Tom on 11/11). And I had no problems with my Airport connection ...

My biggest gripes are:

1) Mounting Windows volumes doesn't properly authenticate. They're visible as shared, but it's only possible to logon as guest.

2) Access to Firewall controls has been reduced to the application level, so it's impossible to open and close ports by number, as it was previously. This simplifies adding remote access to applications that need it, but hides what's really going on from the user. This change in Firewall is a cluster-f**k.

My biggest gripes are:

1) Mounting Windows volumes doesn't properly authenticate. They're visible as shared, but it's only possible to logon as guest.

2) Access to Firewall controls has been reduced to the application level, so it's impossible to open and close ports by number, as it was previously. This simplifies adding remote access to applications that need it, but hides what's really going on from the user. This change in Firewall is a cluster-f**k.

The print dialog has preview available in all applications, but you must use the disclose triangle to reveal it.

As previously posted, does anyone a Apple really use Mail?
Hard to believe they haven't added a third column for viewing.
Have they ever used it on a widescreen MBP?
Letterbox doesn't work right in Leopard & the author is MIA.

Had a problem .Pdf-ing in Acrobat 8 today - printer paused & hung up.

Need a "open new tab" toolbar button in Safari.

Since updating, the experience has been declining......My G5 Dual 2.7 will not wake from a sleep.....it crashes repeatedly.....4 times today alone. It has also "forgotten" my password and made me a standard user.....I've had to rebuilt twice. ARGHHH.....Though I do find the waking crashes humorous and ironic the password problem is troubling.

@27: the command history in Terminal has nothing to do with the Terminal application.. Terminal merely runs command line programs, of which Bash is the shell interpreter, and Bash is the program that handles command history.

And as far as I can tell it works fine. perhaps you have your shell set to some other shell with a broken command history? or something is up with your .bash_history file in your home directory.

As far as the menu bar goes it looks anti-aliased to me.

Some of these problems are trivial. I like the way stacks are. That new hack is really cool, but I hate how it's a hack and the icons will appear IN the actual stack.

I would like to see Apple implement this as a feature in the dock.

As far as Spaces goes I'm not very impressed considering Unix window managers have had Spaces type functionality since ~1990s or even earlier?

The only possible gripe I could think of though is that they didn't implement Beryl-like functionality in it. I mean from the start OS X's Quartz effects, especially (duh) the cube effect when switching users.

Seems like Beryl-type functionality was just a when and not an if, but seems like it didn't happen with Leopard. That cube makes switching workspaces SO much faster and efficient.