On Jun 23, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > Guys, I need some help, and somewhere and somehow one who should be able to > guide a person through these obstacles. Is anybody from the group as utterly > unhappy as I am?
As Bill pointed out, a lot of the old behavior can be resurrected in the preferences. For the most part, I like Lion. I liked the new reverse scrolling at once because it make more sense to me. There are several things I dislike about Lion. For example, the full screen mode for programs is brain dead, if you have multiple monitors. The program zooms out to fill in the monitor with the menu bar and the other one becomes useless. There's too much hidden in the interface that has to be discovered more or less by just clicking around. An example of this is in mail where the command to open and close the mailbox views for each account doesn't show up until you hover over the name of the account in the sidebar. The Mac interface used to be famous for making programs usable without a manual. Now the commands are hidden and there is no manual. The restoration of the state of a program at launch should be fine-tuned to be per program instead of just globally on or off. (Yes, I know about option+splat+Q, before somebody brings it up.) Multiple desktops always act mysteriously. All too often I’m whisked off to a different desktop when I’m opening a window in a program. Sometimes the program already has a window open in the new desktop. More often, I don’t see any reason why I was taken there. Maybe I just don’t know the proper way to hold my mouth when opening a window.
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