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[Swad]

Today's Great Debate is really more of a venting session. The only real debate is whether these are bugs or features. If one of our annoyances is easily fixed, let us know!

What are the things about OS X that annoy you the most? You know, those seemingly tiny little quirks that really get bothersome after awhile. My 3 largest are fairly common.

First, I have no idea why there's no default list view in the finder. Should I really have to change the settings for each folder?

Secondly, the Dashboard is a powerful tool, but why can't I drag a widget to the desktop (this is, at least, possible) and make it float, stay below other windows, keep it locked on the desktop, etc. (If Apple was trying to knock out Konfabulator with Dashboard - and they were - they should at least support a few of its features)

Finally, why can't I delete messages in Mail.app that are below the one selected? Does the rest of the world start at the bottom of their inbox and move up?

What are yours?

[Titan999]

Well, the dashboard issue can be done with a simple fix by typing something into terminal then dragging it onto the desktop by pressing F12 to take you out of dashboard.

Make sure you have root previlages or use the sudo command and type:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES (return)
(then restart your computer and drag your widget, press F12 to remove dashboard and voila, its on your desktop)

The deleting issue, i beleive you can have it the other way around by sorting the mail by clicking the "Date" column.

The folder views.. these files called ds stores i beleive stores what a folder looks like. I dont really know what you mean, if you mean the view of each folder you can change the view for all the folder or each one by getting into show viewing options

[Swad]

I hope so, Guest, but we still don't know about the widgets on the desktop yet.

Titan - Yeah, I know what you're talking about with the widget thing (it's also an option in Oynx) but you can't tell it where to stay in relation to other windows, etc.

[Titan999]

Do you mean Z-Order or the issue with it being on top all the time???
I dont know that one!!
For spanish i think you need to go to international in preferences and put english on top. I dont know if thats the issue though

[Swad]

Yeah, when I tried it using the "Developer Setting" with Onyx, it stayed on top of all the windows - not really what I was needing.

[non sequitur]

the widget thing makes me angry too. i also dont like the fact that the iwork trial takes up a gig of space and it expires after thirty days. i was cleaning up my hfs partition and that made me angry that it was just wasting space.

[Kiko]

I dont liek the fact that A perfectly working Install takes sooooo long to achieve from scratch, its one of the only reasons i dont have OS X running on my computer anymore

[quixos]

i can't stand how the default width of columns in finder can not be set. the amount of time wasted clicking to expand finder columns hurts my mind.

if in the next finder they had it set up so that not only could you set the width easily, but the
widths would be remembered per folder, that would be fantastic.

(i spent many hours back in the beginning looking for the answer to changing default column size. there might actually be a way to do it. life intruded and i forgot about it until i saw this thread. someone should track down the answer. )

[Korrupted]

ATI mouse tearing..but it's being worked on.

[deadlyhifi]

to change finder column size and keep it that way. Hold down 'alt' (is that 'option' for you crazy americans?) and drag to the desired size. When you return it stays that way.

[Korrupted]

deadlyhifi, on Aug 11 2006, 07:37 AM, said:

to change finder column size and keep it that way. Hold down 'alt' (is that 'option' for you crazy americans?) and drag to the desired size. When you return it stays that way.

Do you have to select something before doing it?

[deadlyhifi]

DaxTsurugi, on Aug 11 2006, 01:18 PM, said:

Do you have to select something before doing it?

No. Just hold alt and drag at the bottom of the column, where the two little lines are.

[Korrupted]

I can't figure it out for the life of me.  Could you post a screenshot perhaps?

[Danyel]

The biggest complaint I have doesn't have to do with OS X as much per se.  I'm stuck running OSX 10.4.1 on my laptop due to Integrated Graphical Card restraints.  OSx86 10.4.1 runs slowly compared to 10.4.5 and above.  10.4.1 also has trouble running most Universal applications.

I'm running 10.4.5 on everything else (MSI mPC, Dell Dimension 4600 and Dell Inspiron 1300) and it makes a world of difference (Full QE / CI Support).

[deadlyhifi]

DaxTsurugi, on Aug 11 2006, 01:37 PM, said:

I can't figure it out for the life of me.  Could you post a screenshot perhaps?

now I'm starting to get worried that we are speaking of something completely different. how about this?



I'm on 10.4.7 on a 15" macbook pro.

[Korrupted]

Oh, i see.  I use the Icon view.

[rogabean]

Umm hey guys.. some of the annoyances that have been posted.. such as Kiko's.. are NOT OS X annoyances, they are OS X86 annoyances. You would not have these annoyances if you were running an actual Apple Mac.

Sorry to sound cold, but they are a bit off the topic. This thread is for things with Apple's OS that annoy us, not things that annoy us because we are hacking it to work on unsupported software.

And I hear ya Mash on the Dashboard thing.

Personally since it didn't support this feature out of the box, I removed it from my system.