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OS X Leopard Annoyances Edition #1
Recently I’ve been using OS X Leopard a lot more than my Windows, mainly because I was playing around (messing with registry, startup services) and did something stupid that starting causing various problems. Note to self: before screwing around as such, always set a restore point. As a result of using Leopard more often, I’ve noticed both things that I wish were in Windows and things that make me miss Windows. This series is going to be about those… things.
Another note: I started writing this post a few months ago. I then got busy, saved it as a draft and forgot about it. As such, the last few point may appear weak as I forgot everything that I had originally intended.
No Right-mouse Button on my Macbook
I like how mac fans were so happy when they got their second mouse button with the Mighty-Mouse. Welcome to 20 years ago! So my understanding is that at least since the beginning of OS X, there have been context menus. Why the heck then do you still not have a second mouse button on your laptops?! To be fair, I have gotten use to the two-finger right-click and scroll. So used to it that now I’m a little retarded when it comes to using regular trackpads. However the lack of a second mouse button still is a hindrance – forget about playing RTS games with this thing (ok, you really shouldn’t play RTS games with a trackpad, but I was desperate then).
No PrintScreen Key or Utility
This is partly an annoyance with the mac keyboards. So instead of giving you one key (or two – couldn’t even make it a fn-key?) to take screenshots, the people at Apple decided that it’ll be fun to watch you try and press up to 4 keys at a time. And then realize that you forgot to press Control as well (a 5th key) to prevent it from auto-creating a png on your desktop and instead have it go to your clipboard. cmd + shift + 4 (what happened to 1 and 2?) will bring up a selection tool for you to select an area of the screen.
No Double-Click to Auto-Adjust Width of Column
one fundamental feature of Windows that I miss is the ability to double-click on a column separator and have it automatically adjust to fit the longest entry. Can’t do this in Leopard, sadly.
No Navbar in Finder, how to go to up folder level
There is a back button, but no “up one folder level button”. So now try this: open any folder (except a root folder) in finder, and try to go up one folder level. I’m sorry, but considering this is what, more than the 10th edition of a GUI OS, this is plain stupid. Does nobody in Apple test their own basic file explorer interface?
No right-click rename
Another problem with the Finder. I can’t right click and rename? Isn’t that a basic file operation that should be included in any file context menu?
No physical cd eject button. cannot eject blank cds easily.
I noted this when I first began writing this post a few month ago. Now I can’t remember why. I’ll try to verify it and update accordingly. Apologies if this is not a real issue.
I think the issue was that since the CD is blank, it doesn’t show up in Finder, and so you can’t eject it that way. the keyboard eject key didn’t work either.
