u forgot the whole cursor irritant, sometimes the cursor doesnt change when moved from one application to another.
For example, you’d still get the ‘text’ cursor when u move out of a word document into itunes or another application.

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Oh, man, I’ve got a bunch of things to add to that list:

* The installer deleted my crontab (scheduled tasks)

* The installer deleted all my printers

* Spaces is a buggy POS. I had high hopes that a virtual desktop manager produced by Apple would integrate with the OS and generally work well, but it’s much worse than the 3rd-party Desktop Manager. Window z-ordering frequently changes when switching spaces, the time-wasting transition effect can’t be disabled, and the pager doesn’t go away until you fully release the keyboard shortcut which means it blocks part of the screen if you’re repeatedly switching between to spaces to copy information. Spaces also doesn’t play well with X11 – if an X11 app has tooltips, they appear when the mouse is over the applicable widget in any space, not just the space where the X11 app is running.

* DVD Player keyboard shortcuts were changed, again.

* DVD Player sometimes disappears after resuming from sleep

* I hate the new way Calendar shows event details in a popup after double-clicking, instead of the 10.3 and 10.4 behavior of showing in a sidebar after single-clicking. It’s a real pain to check the details of many events now. Likewise for To-do items.

* Finder forgets scroll position when you click the Back button. Really annoying.

* The new Finder folder icons are terrible – everything blue with a dim etched logo. Terrible for quickly locating the folder you want.

There are a few more things (3D dock, transparent menu bar) but fortunately those can be turned off.

And there are a few good things that came with 10.5:

* DVD Player stays fullscreen when switching spaces, which it didn’t do with Desktop Manager on 10.4
* DVD Player deinterlacing doesn’t suck as badly as it did in 10.4
* DVD Player handles bad/scratched disks better than 10.4 did

Disclaimer: this is all for 10.5.2. I haven’t yet upgraded to 10.5.3, and supposedly it fixes some of the Spaces problems.

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Andrew, thanks for those additions. I don’t even use Spaces because I find it so irksome. I still hate Spotlight. The results list is cluttered and disorganized, at least by default, and I find working with Spotlight results to be incredibly tedious. I want to be able to maintain the Spotlight dropdown WHEN I Apple-I a result. Instead, it vanishes each time, as if to tell me that the LAST thing I would want to do is get information on my search results.

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Andrew,

For tooltips in X11, see:
http://greenbar.saff.net/?p=8

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Yeah I’m surprised as well, and I’m also always amazed that I can’t find anything about the annoying Safari bookmark problem. Despite this, Apple seems to be fixing lots of problems. The terrible transparent Menu Bar is a good example.

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