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Reader Survey: Leopard the (bad) little things
Okay so now I want to turn the tables. We just posted on the good little things in Leopard. Now I want to focus on the bad or annoying little things. What are the niggling little things that make your time in Leopard less enjoyable? As before, I'll get you started with a few of mine.- Network mounts in the Finder sidebar are now in the SHARED submenu. This means an extra click to browse the network mount vs. Tiger.
- The dynamic Dock folder icon in stacks. I find this to be especially asinine. The folder icon for stacks in the Dock changes to reflect the first item in the stack. This can be especially confusing when all you stacks now look the same because they all have sub-folders in them.
- Because of the translucency, text in the menubar is no longer anti-aliased. This means that my MenuCalendarClock date and time looks worse than in Tiger.
- Spaces isn't smart enough. It will sometimes pull you into a space you don't want to be in because of a dialog sheet.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
mcdj said 2:11PM on 11-11-2007
I thought it was just me. The font for MenuCalendarClock looked terrible. Problem is, I disabled the time/date in MCC and turned the default system time/date back on, but that font looked lousy too. I think somethings' up with font rendering in the menu bar in general.
Just another reason I'm back to Tiger for now.
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Tim said 2:11PM on 11-11-2007
Lets see - I wish Time Machine would detect when any file on the system was changed and do a backup then instead of on the hour - seems like it should be smart enough to do this ?
Otherwise nothing really bothers me about the OS it feels as I have wanted the mac to feel for some time now :)
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Jeff said 2:12PM on 11-11-2007
Can't print in Excel. It's killing me!!
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merc669 said 2:19PM on 11-11-2007
How about "Network Shares" work at all! Only way for mine to work is use the "CMD-K" command or "Go" from the Finder Menu. "Tiger" had this working at least. Also, Video support for games and other programs that used to work in 10.4
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Ari Z. said 2:23PM on 11-11-2007
What about the new Front Row? It's ugly...
AND the worst part is - I can no longer listen to music from Front Row over my Airport Express (AirTunes) which is so frustrating and ruins the perfect audio setup I had for parties.
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Tim said 2:34PM on 11-11-2007
I disagree I believe the new front row makes Front Row USABLE !!!
Before it would try to load every single video and would be really slow and obnoxious - this gives us an apple tv built into every mac - it can load up shared itunes libraries so essentially its an Apple TV with every mac !!!
This makes the Mac Mini that much more valuable now !!
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Tom said 2:36PM on 11-11-2007
I've been annoyed with a few things, but starting to love them as 'quirks' - but the most annoying thing:
Unit Converter (dashboard) no long supports British Currency! I'm quite offended.
Of course many others should be offended too, as the list seems to be incredibly shorter. I used the currency converter quite frequently. Not any more... :(
Oh, and whilst on Dashboards, GoGo Redball no longer works!
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jln said 2:45PM on 11-11-2007
I liked in Tiger (read, was used to) the behaviour of the Finder when uncompressing folder. I always download stuff, unzip the folder then put the archive to trash. Now, the unzipped folder is automatically selected. I have to manually re-select the archive. A small detail indeed, but an annoying one, for me.
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reckless ronin said 2:47PM on 11-11-2007
My mouse jumps around alot whenever the machine gets busy. Exposé is also quirky when the cpu load is high.
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erik said 2:50PM on 11-11-2007
#1 You should be happy you get something.
I and few others get nothing. The latest version of MenuCalendarClock doesn't show at all.
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mathematix said 2:53PM on 11-11-2007
Funny how the space theme instead of the abstract blue is featured in the list on THIS blog ;-)
Annoyance: drag and drop from one application into another is less intuitive when they sit in different spaces
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pgolik said 2:58PM on 11-11-2007
Removal of the Bluetooth/Send SMS function from the Address Book.
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Larson said 2:58PM on 11-11-2007
I don't like how you have to bring a program all the way to the bottom of the dock to get it to open up and let you place it there.
I think most of these little problems will be solved soon. The .1 update is supposed to come out in a few weeks. Also I don't know what you people have against Stacks. They're one of the best additions to the OS. My dock used to span the entire screen at the smallest size before the update. Now I have everything aliased in folders. Sure you have to deal with the arrow but it's a nice looking arrow. Better than the Vista arrow that's for sure.
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StuckWithVZW said 2:59PM on 11-11-2007
Print Dialogue box preview doesn't work in most applications. iCal is the only one I've found so far that shows a print preview (Firefox, word, Excel, Safari all do not). I thought this as supposed to be a universal feature that apps would be able to take advantage of w/ out having to be specifically coded for it?
At least this is my experience w/ an HP network printer. No idea if this changes for those plugged in directly to the computer.
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Barry Ward said 2:59PM on 11-11-2007
It's funny that people are complaining of the lack of British currency in the unit converter widget. I have it on mine- British Pounds Sterling.
The one thing that bugs me is Leopard STILL has the Mail bug stopping it from being hidden at login even if you have the Hide tickbox checked in your login items. Do apple use the Mail app at all???
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reckless ronin said 3:01PM on 11-11-2007
Also,
-the screensaver comes on when you're watching a Preview slideshow.
-the cursor doesn't fade away on an iTunes video window anymore.
-if you pause a full screen video from iTunes and it goes into screensaver, the dock disappears. The only way to jump-start it back up is to go back into full screen video then minimize out of it.
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Frank Groeneveld said 3:04PM on 11-11-2007
How about 802.1X not working correctly anymore?
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Austin Flack said 3:04PM on 11-11-2007
Airport Disk functionality seems to have been left out of Leopard entirely--which is incredibly hard to understand. You can manage to mount drives plugged into the AirPort Extreme through the shared menu, but they don't auto-mount, and their throughput or transfer speed or whatever is even worse. (It wasn't good in the first place) And sometimes they don't mount at all. Oh and the AirPort Disk utility isn't even included in Leopard, which is an inexplicable oversight.
I was already disappointed that I couldn't back up with Time Machine to an AirPort Disk, but I figured maybe it was hard to make that fast enough and reliable. I didn't expect to actually lose AirPort disk functionality when I upgraded, though.
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Keane said 3:06PM on 11-11-2007
This is a QuickTime 7.3 problem, but the way CBR importing gives me VBR numbers! I don't want a 130kbps AAC file, I want a 128kbps file.
The other thing that bothers me about Leopard immensely is the way Secure Empty Trash hangs- all. the. time.
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foljs said 3:10PM on 11-11-2007
The dynamic Dock folder icon in stacks. I find this to be especially asinine. The folder icon for stacks in the Dock changes to reflect the first item in the stack. This can be especially confusing when all you stacks now look the same because they all have sub-folders in them.
Well, this is solved with this great idea of layered icons:
http://t.ecksdee.org/post/19001860
There is a collection of similar tips here:
http://www.bananaranha.com/2007/11/11/how-to-fix-the-leopard-gui-ugliness-dock-menubar-stacks/
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