Comments on: About Hidden OSX Leopard annoyances http://jnote.org/187 Custom-made digital content for musicians Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:32:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Andrew http://jnote.org/187/comment-page-1#comment-250 Andrew Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:59:05 +0000 http://jnote.org/?p=187#comment-250 One more:<br><br>The "Configure Proxies" setting in the Network Preferences Pane always switches back to "Using a PAC file" even though I always use the "Manually" option (to specify a SOCKS proxy). Stop trying to be helpful and just leave it on the setting I picked! One more:

The “Configure Proxies” setting in the Network Preferences Pane always switches back to “Using a PAC file” even though I always use the “Manually” option (to specify a SOCKS proxy). Stop trying to be helpful and just leave it on the setting I picked!

]]> By: Jaems http://jnote.org/187/comment-page-1#comment-197 Jaems Tue, 19 May 2009 20:05:44 +0000 http://jnote.org/?p=187#comment-197 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. 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.

]]> By: Kris http://jnote.org/187/comment-page-1#comment-196 Kris Tue, 19 May 2009 19:50:48 +0000 http://jnote.org/?p=187#comment-196 Finder forgets scroll position when you click the Back button. I'm surprised I don't here many people complain about this. Finder in Tiger always remembered scroll position. Finder forgets scroll position when you click the Back button.

I’m surprised I don’t here many people complain about this. Finder in Tiger always remembered scroll position.

]]> By: David http://jnote.org/187/comment-page-1#comment-111 David Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:46:36 +0000 http://jnote.org/?p=187#comment-111 Andrew, For tooltips in X11, see: http://greenbar.saff.net/?p=8 Andrew,

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

]]> By: Jaems http://jnote.org/187/comment-page-1#comment-102 Jaems Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:32:17 +0000 http://jnote.org/?p=187#comment-102 Another bad one: If you have DVD player open, you can't do a screen grab. At all. Even if you have DVD player running in the background, and you want to grab something totally unrelated. You can't have DVD player open and do a screen grab of anything at the same time. Who is this helping? Another bad one: If you have DVD player open, you can’t do a screen grab. At all. Even if you have DVD player running in the background, and you want to grab something totally unrelated. You can’t have DVD player open and do a screen grab of anything at the same time. Who is this helping?

]]> By: Jaems http://jnote.org/187/comment-page-1#comment-96 Jaems Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:21:20 +0000 http://jnote.org/?p=187#comment-96 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. 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.

]]> By: Andrew http://jnote.org/187/comment-page-1#comment-95 Andrew Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:37:49 +0000 http://jnote.org/?p=187#comment-95 One more: The "Configure Proxies" setting in the Network Preferences Pane always switches back to "Using a PAC file" even though I always use the "Manually" option (to specify a SOCKS proxy). Stop trying to be helpful and just leave it on the setting I picked! One more:

The “Configure Proxies” setting in the Network Preferences Pane always switches back to “Using a PAC file” even though I always use the “Manually” option (to specify a SOCKS proxy). Stop trying to be helpful and just leave it on the setting I picked!

]]> By: Andrew http://jnote.org/187/comment-page-1#comment-94 Andrew Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:34:44 +0000 http://jnote.org/?p=187#comment-94 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. 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.

]]> By: Jaems http://jnote.org/187/comment-page-1#comment-93 Jaems Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:17:08 +0000 http://jnote.org/?p=187#comment-93 That's a good one. Sometimes I can't activate the Finder by clicking on the desktop either. Those are slightly related, but they actually might be bugs, I dunno. It's particularly problematic when switching from Safari to Finder. That’s a good one. Sometimes I can’t activate the Finder by clicking on the desktop either. Those are slightly related, but they actually might be bugs, I dunno. It’s particularly problematic when switching from Safari to Finder.

]]> By: uglyfish http://jnote.org/187/comment-page-1#comment-92 uglyfish Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:59:38 +0000 http://jnote.org/?p=187#comment-92 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. 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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