Generally I'm really like my new mac. But there are things that annoy the crap out of me. I figured I would share them in hopes that maybe someone has a solution for me or as somethign others can look out for if they are planning to switch.
1. Dragging and dropping. In windows Xp if you have a window open and need to drag a file to another window that currently isn't visable but open, you can just drag it to the new windows icon in the taskbar and the new window will spring open allowing you to then finish your drag and drop. In OSX, it seems you have to have both windows visible and in play in order to drag from one to the other. You can't drag through the dock the way you can through the Xp taskbar. This gets very annoying.
2. The menubar. I know this is a classic mac thing and ideally it should work but it doesn't always work. Especially when working on dual monitors. For an example you are chatting with someone using Adium and also browsing
in Firefox. You go to the menu bar expecting to add a bookmark or something only to find the menubar is displaying options for Adium and you have to go all the way back and click on the firefox window to get the menubar to switch to firefox. I can't tell you how many times on a daily basis I run into this. I understand the concept of keeping things clean but it's just not really efficient like how windows does it where each window has it's own menubar. You don't need to constantly go to the top of the screen or another screen to get to those options, just the top of that window.
3. In the finder it lists all the files and folders in alphabetical order. This is nice, but what if I want all my folders to appear up top then all my loose files underneath. There is no option for this. There also doesn't seem to be any way to add more options like "kind" or "type" or "file size" or anything like that they way you can in iTunes or XP.
4. The finder tells you how much hard drive space is remaining, but not how much there is total. Sometimes I forget this and it would be nice to know. it would also be nice if it would tell me how much space my files in a particular folder are taking up.
There are other things I run into, but I can't seem to remember off the top of my head. Any issues you other switchers are running into?
I guess I should be fair and start a thread about things I like in OS X.
1. Dragging and dropping. In windows Xp if you have a window open and need to drag a file to another window that currently isn't visable but open, you can just drag it to the new windows icon in the taskbar and the new window will spring open allowing you to then finish your drag and drop. In OSX, it seems you have to have both windows visible and in play in order to drag from one to the other. You can't drag through the dock the way you can through the Xp taskbar. This gets very annoying.
2. The menubar. I know this is a classic mac thing and ideally it should work but it doesn't always work. Especially when working on dual monitors. For an example you are chatting with someone using Adium and also browsing
in Firefox. You go to the menu bar expecting to add a bookmark or something only to find the menubar is displaying options for Adium and you have to go all the way back and click on the firefox window to get the menubar to switch to firefox. I can't tell you how many times on a daily basis I run into this. I understand the concept of keeping things clean but it's just not really efficient like how windows does it where each window has it's own menubar. You don't need to constantly go to the top of the screen or another screen to get to those options, just the top of that window.
3. In the finder it lists all the files and folders in alphabetical order. This is nice, but what if I want all my folders to appear up top then all my loose files underneath. There is no option for this. There also doesn't seem to be any way to add more options like "kind" or "type" or "file size" or anything like that they way you can in iTunes or XP.
4. The finder tells you how much hard drive space is remaining, but not how much there is total. Sometimes I forget this and it would be nice to know. it would also be nice if it would tell me how much space my files in a particular folder are taking up.
There are other things I run into, but I can't seem to remember off the top of my head. Any issues you other switchers are running into?
I guess I should be fair and start a thread about things I like in OS X.