An annoyance is different from a bug in that it is something that you know is probably never going to change, and you can live with it, or work around it, but it still annoys you every time you see it. You are aware that the fix would probably take about a day, but it was some questionable decision made at some point in the interface building process and then it somehow got lost in the shuffle. Here are mine. What are yours?
1) The “Reset Safari” Annoyance
Let’s say I want to change which parameters that get reset when I choose to “Reset Safari”. As it is right now, I can only have those parameters changed if I DO the action of resetting Safari. In other words, I have a list of toggles for the reset Safari action as seen below, but I can’t just go in and change them for next time, without actually following through with the reset. Your choices should be saved even when you choose to Cancel the action.
You can only send these parameters through by choosing Reset
How is this a problem? Well, let’s say I reset Safari last year and since then have built up a whole library of passwords, histories and caches. Then one day I want to change the things that will be affected the next time I reset Safari in the future, and at that point, I know I will be willing to clean out everything else. But I am not ready to do so now, I only want to set additional parameters. Irritating.
2) The Safari Tab Folder Click Circus
Almost every menu with dropdowns on your Mac has the ability to be rolled through without the re-selection of main items. If you click on, for example, the Window menu, the menu will drop down. Then you can roll over to the Edit menu and view its dropdown without actually click-selecting Edit. This saves lots of clicking and lots of time, and it is worked into pretty much all the menus on your system EXCEPT for the bookmarks in Safari. They don’t roll through as they do in, for example, Firefox. Why? This adds an extra 2 clicks to every single time you want to change from one bookmark folder to another.
Folder Click Shuffle
3. The “Dock Retake” Problem
If you have a Huge Dock, and you want to manually drag it to its smallest size, you can’t just drag it down to minimum with the striped pulldown area shown below. You have to stop and “retake” the area a total of 3 times. In addition, if you have the dock on auto-hide, then the dock will vanish every time you reach one of the three “notches”. This is really one of the worst annoyances I have ever seen in my life.
Get Ready for the Dock Re-Take
4. Change the Output Format, Parameters, Placement, and Resolution of Screen Shots
What’s that you say? None of this is possible? I am a big fan of screen shots. I take at least 5 a day, no joke. Where is the preference pane that lets you play with it?
(Note to people who browsed to this page looking for a solution: you can change the output with this Terminal command:)
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type format
Where format is replaced with the format you want: jpg png etc. But that’s not really good enough, is it?
5. The Stripped-Down Menu Disease
This rare disease is known to affect the Time Machine menu item (no On/Off item) and the International Preference Pane (no way to change currency and number format - see this post)
Turn me Off
That’s all for now. Next time I will try to praise something.
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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.