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What's your single most hated app/feature in 10.5?
1/1: What's your single most hated app/feature in 10.5?
Other polls | 2,697 votes | 36 comments
Hate is a strong word
I said I hated the new Finder, but that's not strictly true. I'm a big fan of the column view, but I like the idea of the cover flow view from 10.5. The problem for me is that the cover flow view uses the list view for the file listing, and my biggest problem with that is that you can't navigate using just the arrows keys (yes I know, command-o and command-up arrow open folders, but that is so much slower than just pressing right as in the column view).
Hate is a strong word
Hate is a strong word, but I'm pretty sure there's at least one item on the list that each person will hate. If not, well, then pick one you strongly dislike :).
Stacks
I hate Staks and regret the possibility to navigate through folders and subfolders from the Dock
Stacks
Yup. I put other. I don't dislike stacks, but I sorely miss being able to drill down folders in the dock. Apple? Can you hear me?
Lost Bluetooth functionality in AddressBook
That is the only change I 'hate'!
Network Volumes / Shares not in sidebar
I think you missed one of the most annoying features, or should I say lack of feature.
Network Volumes / Shares not in sidebar
I believe you can drag the ones you want into the side bar once you've connected. Then when you click on them in the future and you're disconnected, it will auto-connect.
Network Volumes / Shares not in sidebar
Yes, that is true. However, with at least 20-30 different shares at a time and dozens more that I might need to access (I do a lot of file management) and I don't want them all in my sidebar all the time. I also have shares at home, that again, I don't need all the time. What was wrong with the old standard way that exists on every other system (yes even Windows!). I understand that sometimes a new paradigm can radically change and improve usability but I fail to see how this situation has done any of that.
Network Volumes / Shares not in sidebar
This feature is why I voted "new Finder" as my favorite in the other other poll. I love the fact that I can just click the host and see all the shares there. The "eject" buttons shows which shares are mounted, and it's super easy to connect as another user. I guess that means I need to go back and change the guest user mapping on my MythTV/NAT box so I don't have to use guest all the time.
Network Volumes / Shares not in sidebar
Totally agree. This has got to be a bug, not a feature. The work-arounds are a bit much for mortals. How about "it just works"? Cause this sure does not.
Network Volumes / Shares ARE in sidebar!!
This is still possible, just go to Finder preferences and hit the corresponding checkbox in the Sidebar options.
X11
The mostly undocumented changes to X11 drove/is driving me bonkers. I can see what they're doing, and once I figured it out, it was acceptable.
X11
The fact that a lot of X11 stuff is broke because they changed code base from XFree86 to X.org. The fact that it doesn't come to the front when launched. The fact that it doesn't react properly to hot switching. Yeah, X11 is my vote.
Stacks.
Ugggh Stacks. Why did Apple make them suck so bad compared to how they worked in 10.4??
Sptlight gone worse
For me it's Spotlight!
Sptlight gone worse
If by "Spotlight view in Finder windows", you mean the Spotlight search field in Finder windows (I can't think of what else you might mean), it's still there. If you're not seeing it, then possibly you clicked the button at the upper right corner of your Finder windows, which hides the Toolbar (and Sidebar)?
I voted Time Machine...
...but the only thing I hate about it is the way it won't recognise the drives in my server, but insists I take up more desk space with an external drive.
Stacks because...
I voted that I hate Stacks the most because I cannot navigate 2 or more levels deep in stacks as I could with the traditional folder/right click in the dock as before. So to sum it up, my hate for stacks is in 2 parts:
Address Book
i hate Address Book. nothing added (okay maybe exchange sync wasn't there before), but one of my most favourite features of tiger is gone: bluetooth dialing and sms. :(
it's the little things ...
I voted for the 3D dock, since I think it's the most glaringly bad design choice (along with the indistinguishable folders and the translucent menubar) in an interface that's generally getting simpler and more refined. (And I think the stacks might be a throwback to OS 9's pop-up windows.)
But I'm with John Siracusa on this one (who often used the word hate to describe the new interface): it has to do with expectations. As with every release of OS X, the internals are better than before; simpler, more efficient, better for developers (I hope). But Apple shows the usual fickleness with UI design, despite its moving towards something cleaner, more user-friendly and less shiny. Though the dock is quite a bad design choice, I think the most stupid thing, most worthy of being hated, is the fickle view settings in Leopard: unless you explicitly designate a folder with a certain view, no matter how many times you change it otherwise, it won't stick to the folder; it changes a global general view setting that applies to all folders except those with the custom view defined in the view options. I haven't even installed Leopard yet, though it's sitting right here on my desk, and I know this will annoy me until 10.6. So it's about expectations: we expect Apple to be getting better at this, as shown by such seemingly divinely inspired features such as Time Machine, but for some reason, they break perfectly useable (though unideal) functions in favor of unuseable ones. And we cling to the hope that someday they'll FTFF ... (but at least they finally multithreaded the finder server mounting and the window icon grid spacing)
it's the little things ...
Funny, because one of the items most complained about in Tiger was the fact that there was no consistent viewing mechanism. Every time you opened a new folder it switched to "its" default view, and each and every one had to be reset by hand.
No shares in sidebar
Ok hope this goes to the right place, I kind of lost the link to this thread to history - literally the History menu.
No shares in sidebar
Right, that's why I lost it, it wasn't a thread on its own - refers to discussion above. If it can be moved, cool, else, sorry for the confusion :).
Spaces. It could have been great...
I've been using virtual desktop systems on OS X for several years now, so I was really excited about having an Apple-blessed virtual desktop system built in, but spaces is a huge disappointment. It's annoying that it won't let me make *windows* (not apps!) sticky. But the worst, inexcusable offense is that there's no way to prevent it from yanking me over to a different space at its whim. Accidentally click the wrong dock icon? *YANK* Click on a web link in Mail? *YANK* Stop at the wrong spot during Cmd-Tab? *YANK*
I voted "Other"
Actually, there's really nothing I'm "hating" in Leopard. Stacks are a little annoying and nothing more. I'm sure Apple will fix them in a future minor update, given all the horrible feedback.
Like, it would appear, the majority of people...
...Stacks annoy the heck out of me. Not because they're bad, per se, but because they remove the original Tiger functionality. I can think of a couple of small changes that would make Stacks many times better without removing any current functionality:
Firstly, add a "popup menu" option to the list of ways to open a Stack - that way, individual Stacks could be set up to work like Docked folders in Tiger. My Applications folder is the big one here, since it's become distinctly less useful now that it opens up as a grid that shows less than half the contents of the actual Applications folder. And secondly, allow items in a Stack to be right-clicked! If I could perform simple operations such as trashing files, instead of being limited to opening them, then I would be so much happier. For example, the one Stack I really appreciate having around is my Downloads Stack. I have it set to Fan view (even Grid view is rarely if ever enough to show the ENTIRE contents of my Downloads folder) so that it acts as a quick access to items that I've recently downloaded (normally I'd have to search through my Downloads folder manually to find the file). But if, for instance, I download a zip archive, I can go to my Stack and click it to de-archive, fine. I can then open the resulting file right there from the Stack. But being a neat-freak, I still have to go to the Finder to delete the zip file. If I could right-click, I could trash the thing right then and there without even using the Finder. (Note: Before I started writing this post, I was going to mention showing files in the Finder as an potential advantage of right-clicking items in Stacks. But then it occurred to me that there might actually be a shortcut to do that already. Sure enough, Command-clicking shows the files in the Finder instead of opening them. So deleting that zip file is easier than I thought it was. But it would still be nice to be able to do it straight from the Stack.)
Like, it would appear, the majority of people...
actually you can drag files out of the stacks right into the trash, i do it constantly with the downloads folder, i think its great.
Like, it would appear, the majority of people...
Hm, now that is quite a useful little solution I hadn't considered. I'll certainly be making use of that.
Still, giving people options is always a good thing. Those great big icons are just begging to be right-clicked. (Bonus points if right-clicking folders allowed you to view their contents hierarchically... but something tells me that would be asking for a miracle.)
Stacks but not dock/menu's
I voted Stacks, but probably wouldn't have done if they hadn't replaced the old way folders worked in the dock. I actually like stacks, but not the reduction in functionality that results for now.
Hate Finder
I want to get rid of the sidebar -- permanently
Show all in Spotlight has regressed
Has anyone tried clicking on the "Show all" option in Spotlight's search results? What used to be a useful, intuitively organized results window is now a confusingly disorganized Finder window.
Show all in Spotlight has regressed
I really can't see the problem. By default it shows in details view, so now you can sort by any criteria you like, including "Kind" which is all you had before.
Show all in Spotlight has regressed
The problem with the Finder results window is simple: unlike 10.4, you cannot add columns to the display. All you get is Name, Kind, and Date Modified.
The Dock Hatetd it In Tiger, Still Hate
The Dock is the worst feature of Leopard. It was bad in Tiger and they haven't fixed it in Leopard. I didn't use it in Tiger and qwon't be in Leopard either.
Gui
Gui... the iTunesque look is fine for iTunes, but I don't want my whole OS look like it. I hate that blue, and Appearance set to Graphite does not change it.
Hard to decide
It's hard for me to decide which of the following UI element of Leopard I hate the most. These all drive me nuts: the 3D Dock, the transparent menubar, the folder icons, stacks, and the dark window backgrounds. Regarding the window backgrounds, consistency is great (I love UNO), but I would have gone with Unified for Aqua apps and Dark unified for brushed metal apps. Consistency, yet variety and backwards compatibility visually. |
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