As mentionedbefore, my experiences with the new Mac haven't all been roses. Therehave been a few things that haven't worked out real great, and I've evenhad a few Grey Screens of Death (kernel panics.) I suppose that thingslike this happen on any computer system, but based on my priorexperiences with Mac it kinda surprised me that there isn't a higherlevel of stability than what I've experienced. After all, this isn'tWindows! I shouldn't need to have the 'reboot' tool in my arsenal oftroubleshooting aids. I have to admit though that if this had been aWindows box I probably would have needed to reboot at least a hundredtimes as much in the past few weeks than I actually have. But if it hadbeen Linux it probably would have been about a tenth as many times.
I often find myself wishing that I could resize from any edge or corner as I've been doing for nearly 20 years on every Windows, OS/2 and X-Windows system I've ever used. Borderless windows When you take away the ability to resize from any edge of the window then you don't need to keep the borders either, but this leads to other problems. From: Matthew Kefford github.com Sent: 03 November 2020 12:22 To: imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad mac-precision-touchpad@noreply.github.com Cc: roddymetanez; Comment github.com Subject: Re: imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad 3 fingers to drag I came here to request this feature too and glad to find it has already been suggested.
To quickly check your iCloud status on your Mac and iPhone: Go to System Preferences and choose iCloud. Your iCloud address is shown besides your name on the left On your iPhone, select Settings - iCloud and verify the email address being used.
However, stability issues aside, there are a few things that really bugme about the Mac and OS X experience, and that is what this article isabout. I've been working off and on on this article for several weeksnow. During that time I've added some things to the list, and also haveremoved several as I got used to them and was no longer able to gripeabout them.
Given who I am and what I work on it is probablynot too surprising that all of these gripes are about basic UserInterface issues. I have no gripes at all about functionality orcapabilities of the OS or installed software, so that is probably sayinga lot about this platform and how well it fulfills my needs for Internetaccess, software development, and desktop applications. All that's leftare a few UI gripes.
Click to activate
It really bugs me that if a window is not in the foreground that I haveto click on it once to raise it to the foreground, and then click againto do whatever it was that I wanted to click on in the first place. Iguess this means that I am a firm believer in 'If I can see it I shouldbe able to click on it.' This can sometimes be particularly troublingfor me with apps that have multiple windows open, such as switching backand forth between the web browser's main window and a popup window thata site has opened. Another case is the multiple windows of theGIMP. Yes I know it is not a nativeapp, and was designed for another environment, (X-Windows) but the pointis that I shouldn't have to click more than once to select a tool fromthe palette and then click more than once in the image window to startusing the tool. The tool palette is obviously getting the mouse moveevents even when it is not the active window since the tool buttons arebeing highlighted as you mouse over, why can't it get the mouse clickevents too!?
The really annoying thing about click to activate though is that itis not consistent. Somewhere along the line somebody in Cupertinodecided that things like the title bar gumdrops, tools on nativetoolbars, (but if the application uses a non-native toolbar you are outof luck,) and the play/stop/etc. buttons on a miniview iTunes should beable to respond to a single click even if the window is not theforeground window. This means that I have to pay more attention thanshould be needed every time I click to make sure that the click actuallygot sent to the window.
Can only resize from 1 corner
It bugs me that I can only resize windows from the lower right corner. Ioften find myself wishing that I could resize from any edge or corner asI've been doing for nearly 20 years on every Windows, OS/2 and X-Windowssystem I've ever used. https://site-4773953-8453-6198.mystrikingly.com/blog/soccer-colosseum-mac-os.
Borderless windows
When you take away the ability to resize from any edge of the windowthen you don't need to keep the borders either, but this leads to otherproblems. I tend to use wallpaper images that are relatively dark so asto not detract too much from my work. I also like to have a blackbackground on my Terminal windows. However this means that when twoTerminal windows are overlapping there is no visual indicator at all totell you where one window ends in the overlap area and another begins. Www freeslots cpm. Asimple border on the windows would help a lot in these situations, (andwould also provide something to grab with the mouse for resizing!)
Menu Mnemonics
I can live with the shared menu bar at the top of the screen, and haveeven started to like it, but I really miss menu mnemonics. Those are theunderlined letters in the menu item's label that let you activate adrop-down menu, and select items within the menu, all without using themouse. Sure, the accelerator keys (the key sequences that are usuallylisted on the right side of a menu item) help a lot but not all menuitems have them, and other than the standard accelerators how are yousupposed to learn what they are if your mouse is broken and you can'taccess the menu bar at all? Hmmm? Of course if your mouse is broken thenthat leaves a particular finger free to wave towards 1 InfiniteLoop if you happen tofeel inclined to do so.
Can't change caption bar colors
In the past I've always configured my system to make the caption bar (ortitle bar) of the active window use a color that is very easilydistinguished from the other open windows on the screen. For example, Iwould typically have my system configured such that the caption offoreground windows were painted a vibrant blue or purple, and the otherwindows would use a dull grey. When you have literally dozens of windowsopen at once across several screens then this makes it very easy to takea quick glance and know exactly where you are and what you are workingon.
Up until recently Apple's approach has been to use almost the samecaption color for foreground and background windows, with the only realdifference between them being that the gumdrops would have color on thefront window no color on the rest, and also if the application usesnative widgets then they will be dimmed when the window is not theforeground window. Starting with Leopard (OS X 10.5) Apple has made thecaption bar on the foreground window be a darker shade of grey, but IMHOit is not enough to give you the nicequick-glance-with-dozens-of-windows usability. And they still don't letyou set the color to something that you prefer.
Can't change mouse cursor
Find Myself Mac Os Catalina
You'd think that with how important the visual appeal of the OS seems tobe with Apple that they would not have let something this ugly slidethrough their QA department for so long. Since I usually have multiplecomputers with multiple screens active at once, I like to increase thesize of the mouse cursor a bit, or replace it with alternate cursorsthat are more easily visible. I've tried options for things like givingthe cursor a comet trail of fading arrows behind it, or what not, and Ihate them all after a few minutes. For me, just increasing the sizeand/or using a colored arrow that is easily visible does the job anddoesn't get in the way of my work. However on Mac OS X you can't usecustom cursors and all you can do is scale the image up in the UniversalAccess section of System Preferences. And being Apple you might assumethat it would be a nice scaled up anti-aliased rendering of a vectorimage, but NO! They simply take the original 16x16 pixel image andstretch it to fit the new 64x64 or whatever size. Anyone who has used aphoto editing application more than a few times knows you can't take asmall image and enlarge it very much without it looking like crap! Itembarrasses me too much to run a Mac with a cursor stretched up to amonstrosity like that, so I suffer with the itty-bitty one thatoccasionally gets lost among the dozens of windows on my desktops.
Find Myself Mac Os X
Select and middle button paste
This one isn't really a gripe, but just a missed feature. On X-Windowsbased systems there are multiple clipboard-like things available. Inaddition to the one that you use with the normal cut, copy and pastemenu items, there is a clipboard called the 'Primary Selection.'Whenever you select some text with the mouse that text is automaticallycopied into the Primary Selection without any extra work on your part.No need to use a menu, toolbar tool, or a accelerator key to get itthere. If the application is written properly then that text does notinterfere with the main clipboard at all. Then when you click the middlemouse button that text is automatically pasted into the clickedapplication at the point where the cursor was located when you clickedthe mouse. I never realized how much I used this feature and how secondnature it has become until I wasn't able to do it any longer. I keepforgetting to hit the copy key and trying to middle click to get thetext I selected in another app. Luckily iTerm and Emacs can beconfigured to work with select and middle-click.
As far as desktop operating systems go, they all suck, and Mac OS X sucks the least. Although I use Linux as my primary desktop OS, that's because it has been the best choice for me - a software developer (primarily interested in server-side technologies) who wants a decent desktop.
Lately, I find myself considering an exclusive use of Mac OS X on the desktop. Now, I don't consider myself a power user. (That's a term for people who are proud of their desktop OS expertise. They can fix your printer.) I really only use four desktop apps with any frequency:
- Gnome Terminal
Of these, about 80% of my day is spent in a terminal. In other words, I think my needs are pretty basic, so it should be pretty easy for me to switch to a different OS, right? Well, I hope so, but there are still some things about Mac OS X that annoy me, and I've taken the time to come up with my Top X List of Mac OS X Annoyances:
Separating Menu Bar from Window Is Stupid.
Usability studies supposedly disagree, but I don't care - having the menu bar miles away from your focus is stupid. This should be common sense. It's annoying enough on a 12' screen. I'm sure it will seem much worse on a 23' screen. (Usability studies can be wrong by focusing on general ideas out of context. Location consistency is usually good.)
Apps Don't Really Close When You Close Them.
When I close the last window of something, why is it still running? I know the command-Q shortcut, but that's a dangerous habit. Using the shortcut instead of clicking close just means that I'm more likely to accidentally close another window of the same app, not realizing that I still have it open. Computers are supposed to keep up with this stuff for us. That's their job.
(My Linux desktop has more than a hundred processes running, and they don't screw up my desktop experience, so you'll have a hard time convincing me that this is a feature.)
Flip and spin mac os. Maximizing Is Broken.
How hard can this be? Seriously. If you want to be different, that's cool, but not when it means being broken. When I maximize something, it should take up the whole screen. Get it? Leaving little gaps everywhere just means that I'll bring another app to the foreground when I accidentally click on it.
Alt-Tab to a Minimized App, and It Stays Minimized.
(Yes, I know it's really command-tab, but who says that?) There are lots of reasons why alt-tab on the Mac sucks, and this is one of them. Combine this with the fact that apps don't really close when you close them, and the result is alt-tab pollution. You switch apps, but nothing happens. Is the app closed? Is it minimized? It is just the damn Finder again?
Too Many Option Keys.
Function, control, alt, option, and command (which used to be called open apple and is sometimes referred to by its symbol). Which one do I use to right-click again? Which one makes the delete button delete? Surely we can get rid of one or two of these.
No Dedicated Page Up, Page Down, Home, or End Keys.
I didn't realize how much I used these until they were gone. Can't we get rid of some of those option keys to make room? Even if we can't, do we really need two command keys? And how about that extra enter key? Get rid of those, and at least give us home and end.
Only One Desktop.
Only one 12' desktop. Yes, Expose is cool, but it's no substitute. What's wrong with having both? Microsoft is finally adding tabs to IE - surely we can have a few desktops.
The Clock Sucks.
It really sucks. Sun 10:00 AM. I want to know the date - I know it's Sunday, for crying out loud. Maybe I can change the format. Let's go look. Nope, but I can add seconds or flashing separators. Who needs the date when you can make those colons flash?
(My Linux clock not only shows me some useful information, but I can also get a quick glimpse of the calendar by clicking it. Sorry Mac, but the Linux clock kicks your clock's ass.)
iPhoto Sucks.
I know pictures are big, and I know it's tough to manage thousands of them, but damn, figure it out already.
Safari Sucks.
Safari was released three years ago. I still can't tab to a select list. But, to be fair, that's probably really hard to do. (Update: See Adam's comment below.)
I hope you enjoyed my list and had a few laughs. Feel free to point out ways to get around these annoyances, and of course, let me know if any are just a result of my own ignorance. :-)
Space rider mac os. Have a great week!
