computerworld.com — Two of Computerworld's top operating systems editors, a Mac expert and a Windows expert, compare notes on what Apple should reconsider as it develops Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Mac OS X 10.4, or Tiger, is a noticeably better operating system than XP or Vista. But it's not perfect. OS X has its own quirks and flaws...
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gbicheDec 16, 2006
quicksilver FTW
yathoshoDec 16, 2006
wow, while some of the suggestions appear to be reasonable, there are quite many that made me believe the editors only tested osx for a 1 day or 2.
ducksofanaheimDec 16, 2006
They should update the ipod interface. I read an Apple blog where he said the Zune interface looked like OS X but the ipod looked like XP lol
spyromaniacDec 16, 2006
Don't get me started about copying a huge file from DVD to HD. Oops, I can't wait for 30 minutes for this to finish, where the feck is the cancel button. Oh no, I had to force-cancel the finder, that'll fix it - No! Oh crap it's carrying on after a reboot. Does anyone know how to stop this!? I've had to pull the battery out of the frigging laptop to get the fecker to stop. This is surely the most ludicrous omission in the history of GUI design. And before anyone gets uppity I'm a user not a sysadmin I want to use my computer for actual work not just feck around in the terminal for fun.
brewmastercDec 16, 2006
Get addr2line working :)
wiseweaselDec 16, 2006
I agree that multi-button mice are superior to single-button ones; however, with laptops, it's not ergonomic for me, due to the way I hold my hand, to click on multiple physical mouse buttons. I suspect this is true for many other people as well. On a laptop trackpad, the mouse buttons are below the trackpad, and you use them with your thumb. It's not very practical to have to move your hand over each time so your thumb can reach the particular mouse button you want. Apple's solution to this, and it was a good one, was to turn the trackpad itself into the clicking and scrolling device as well. If you enable the options in the prefs, you can use two fingers on the trackpad and track horizontally or vertically to scroll in that direction. To click, you can tap the trackpad with a single finger. To right-click, simply tap the trackpad with two fingers. This means that I can click, right-click and scroll in either direction, all without moving my hand from the trackpad, all instantly available from muscle memory. This is really the nicest input method I've used besides the regular Logitech 4-button+scroll mouse I use when I'm at my desk. For input on the go, the trackpad on Apple laptops is really the best I've used. Give it a try, and don't forget to enable the advanced tracking options in the System Preferences before you knock it...
grazilDec 17, 2006
uh... no...
greyspecDec 18, 2006
you still can tab/space... only sometimes you need to click in the right area to register. and if space doesn't work, try tab/enter. this should work for you though....
mipadiDec 26, 2006
Option-clicking the zoom button generally makes the window fill the whole screen.
ejtttjeJan 23, 2007
I actually just stumbled across the Apple (BSD?) version of 'addr2line': use 'atos' instead. It uses a slightly different command line syntax than 'addr2line', but serves the same purpose. (Hint: remember to pipe results through c++filt to get human-readable output...)