OS X 10.5.8 on my QuickSilver (Power Mac G4)...
It's funny... over the years, I've installed Leopard and Snow Leopard
and Lion on quite a few machines. Even supported them, as far as
pushing updated apps, answering questions, fixing problems, and
whatnot. But I've never bothered to really use Leopard on a day to
day basis. My real machine has been running Tiger all this time!
Ok, so now I'm on Leo and I'm running into a few oddities...
- Finder lags badly. wtf! If an app updates a file in an open
folder (eg The Unarchiver), Finder doesn't show the update or the new
file until you forcibly refresh it by closing and re-opening the
folder's window? I found an applet called "Refresh Finder" that
helps, but it's not perfect. Is there a real solution to this, to
make Finder refresh the open windows more quickly? Why does such a
horrible .0 type bug still exist in a OS .8 release?!
- Folders ignore their view settings, sometimes. Very odd.
Sometimes when I open a folder, it displays incorrectly. Icons
instead of a list view or vice versa. Or it's positioned in the
middle of the screen instead of the left, where I'd put it. Or it's
got the sidebar instead of the tighter view. If I close the bad
window and reopen it, it always opens correctly. Is there a way to
make Finder get it right in the first place? ...Thinking about doing
a global rm of all .DS_Store files. Not sure if that will really
help tho.
- Finder's contextual menu. Is there a way to edit this thing? Bugs
me to have to dig thru the "More" submenu all the time to get to
GraphicConverter's functions. I want the things I do often to be the
easiest to select, at the top of the menu. Not burried down
yet-another layer of submenu!
- iTunes 10.6.3. sigh. Yet-another iTunes generation that's slower
than the previous. The new annoyance is that when it looses my fav
streaming radio station, and has to rebuffer it -- the app comes to
the front (unhides)! It, of course, grabs whatever text I'm typing
and throws it away. Is there a way to make iTunes stay hidden?
Found a few gems...
+ Dockables. Always did like this collection of little applets.
Nice color icons too, in the Leopard edition.
http://getdockables.com/
+ iStat Menus 2. Works great! Still love that clock, with its
calendar drop-down menu. I've got a bunch of time zones in the list,
so I can keep track of why my international friends aren't responding
to my IM's!
+ WebKit builds for Leopard! Oh yea! Makes Safari zoom again!
http://code.google.com/p/leopard-webkit/
+ Safari Extensions. ClickToPlugin. Adblock. HoverZoom. and Glims.
+ TenFourFox and Camino. Still great builds of Firefox.
What are your fav gems? Esp Safari Extensions... I'd love to find
one that lets you increase the font size on the Bookmarks Bar, and in
the bookmarks window. Anyone gots a fav Twitter client that works in
ppc/Leopard? I'm still usin Ircle for IRC - anything better?
Thx,
- Dan.
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