It's taking me a little while to get used to some of the features in Leopard. Overall, I love the new OS, but there is a few little things that bug me:
Front Row: Great, I used it at our Halloween party this weekend and it was a huge hit. Everyone was amazed at how I was controlling the music through the TV with a tiny remote. Problems for me: I particularly liked the way the old Front Row had the desktop fade away into the background. With all the other over the top visual effects in leopard, the simple fade-to-black approach doesn't have the same pizzaz. Not sure about these last two, but I'm pretty sure they've been changed. The text seems smaller in the new AppleTV-esque FR. Also, am I making this up, or in the previous version of FR, didn't the music keep playing in iTunes even if you left FR, and if you were playing music before invoking FR you could see a "now playing" section? IT seems the new setup is great for movies and TV shows, but lacking in the music department. It's a real party stopper to have the music stop just because you accidently hit the menu button on the apple remote one too many times while looking for a certain song. Also... !!! why can't a put a normal folder in the dock without it having to be a stacks folder?!? Sometimes it's nice to be able to judge a folders contents by the icon or image on the folder, and not just on the first file in the folder... urgh. In my dock I usually keep an applications folder (even though I primarily use Quicksilver). As it stands right now, it appears that I have two instances of address book in my dock, one to the left of the separator, and one that is actually my applications folder. Additionally, I keep a videos folder and the Downloads folder. To solve this problem, i created a new empty folder for each of these stacks. Then i did a "get info" on my applications folder icon and copy and pasted it into the generic folder. Did the same for the video and the downloads folder. Renamed each of these "*Applications", "*Videos", and "*Downloads" making sure to put the * in front of each name, and put them into their respective folders. Now my dock always shows the (sort of) correct icon for each of these folders. for even better luck, make the folders alias of the real folders so that you have a "Show in finder" link closer to the dock in stead of at the end of the stack-fan... rick
