Most recent submissions in 'Usability'
Play/Pause (F8) button forces to open iTunes in Snow Leopard
When you use Spotify for example, and want to pause the playback by pushing the Play/pause (F8) button, the playback is paused, but iTunes is opened at the same time. VERY annoying!
Even more annoying is the fact that this is an added feature (more...)
Solution 1: Make it behave like in Leopard again!
Solution 2: In keyboard settings, allow user to control which programs the button opens/pauses and how.
Not a solution, but a clumsy workaround:
Set QuickTime Player (more...)
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Macbook: Lowest brightness level (black screen) is a bit misleading
When you want to leave your Macbook on but turn off the display only, you have two choices:
- ctrl-shift-eject
- reduce display brightness to zero
The first one isn't obvious to a newbie, because it's a hidden shortcut. (more...)
Solution 1: In zero brightness, ANY key press should lit up the screen to the lowest brightness level. (This is harmful in case a person wants to keep the display off while typing the keyboard. That may be needed in a presentation situation or when using (more...)
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Sort by 'Date Added' in Dock behaves unexpectedly
In the Dock, there is a section where you can place folders to get quick access to them. In the settings of those folders, you have (among others) the option to sort them by 'Date Added'. The behaviour of 'Date Added' is described (more...)
Apply the expected sort order.
Medium
Low
Not fixed
'Date deleted' column in Trash
There should be a 'date deleted' column in the Trash so that you can find easily what you have recently deleted.
It's a pain in the ass if you need a file you put into the Trash last week, but can't remember its name. (more...)
Low
Low
Not fixed
QuickLook to loop video files
I have lots of different videos (for example animation walkcycles that are no more than a couple of seconds long) that I usually like to watch in loop.
QuickLook is great for browsing through them quickly, but it's very annoying not (more...)
- An option to switch QuickLook to always loop video files
- Holding cmd or alt while watching a video in QuickLook would make it to loop
Low
Low
Not fixed
Can't eject disk because of program in use but which program?
When trying to eject a disk if a file or folder is in use, the user is given the following generic warning:
"The disk ... can't be ejected because one or more programs may be using it"
The problem is that it (more...)
Specify which program/s or file/s are in use so that the user may take proper action.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Pages: Enable copy for selected text of a given style
There is an option in Pages which enables you to select all uses of a given style (see attached screenshot). Unfortunately one can't do anything with this selected text. Would be nice to be able to copy this selection.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Mail: Conversation View in threaded mail summary
Mail allows viewing mails in threads but only shows a summary of the conversation (subject, date, sender) on the summary mail - but not the content of the mails. To view the content of the mails every mail still has to be opened one after another.
If "Organise by Thread" is enabled, the mail summary of the threaded mails should be improved by a Conversation View. If the mails are very huge or the conversation is very long, older mails automatically should collapse (similar to gmail).
Medium
Medium
Fixed
Fixed in Lion
Trying to rename a folder in use results in unhelpful dialog
When trying to rename a folder in use, an unhelpful misleading dialog shows up "An unexpected error occurred (error code -8065)".
Display a more helpful dialog such as "Operation can't be completed while folder is in use". There should not be any "unexpected" or "error" wording. It's not unexpected, it's a normal operation that's (more...)
Low
Low
Not fixed
There is no native support for read/write NTFS in OS X
Currently there is no native support for write mode on NTFS disks under OS X. Only read from NTFS formatted disks is supported. The situation is perhaps more complicated than it seems as probably there are some legal issues between Apple and Microsoft (more...)
Luckily for now there are some free alternatives ( like NTFS-3G etc. ), but I really think that this should work straight out of the box.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Movie preview thumbnails not showing in Coverflow or Grid views
When opening o folder in Finder that contain movie files, they do not show as a thumbnail of the movie.
This happens with movies of the following types: qt, mov, avi, wmv, mp4, m4v, flv
With perian installed along with Flip4Mac there (more...)
Re-install Audio Hijack and update components. All solved after a log out - log in
Low
Low
Not fixed
Fixed
QuickLook of a .pps file in SnowLeopard is not as sleek as it is in Leopard
In SnowLeopard when you QuickLook a .pps file it displays the main screen with the thumbnails of the pages on the left side. You cannot use your mouse scrollwheel to scroll up / down the pages, as the main view is fixed. You also cannot use the up/down (more...)
I like the old way much more. No problem with the pages thumbnails on the side but just allow the main view to be scrolled.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Wireless Printer/scanner printer problem
Previously working cannon wireless printer/scanner &/or fax and copy combination printers will be switched to straight scanning rather than both. Thus making printing impossible.
restoring the wifi/ bonjour printer set up list. Using wireless internet connection.
Medium
High
Not fixed
Wireless Printer/scanner printer problem
Previously working cannon wireless printer/scanner &/or fax and copy combination printers will be switched to straight scanning rather than both. Thus making printing impossible.
restoring the wifi/ bonjour printer set up list. Using wireless internet connection.
Medium
High
Not fixed
Snow Leopard - the new minimize option has no clear indication of minimized windows
In the new Snow Leopard you have the option to minimize a window in the
application icon but as soon as you minimize it there is no clear indication that
the windows are minimized and how many are they. It is OK that the windows are minimized (more...)
Maybe in a way like iPhone notification works. It displays a little circle with the
info of how many windows are minimized. The bottom half of the screenshot
is a quick preview of how could this be made.
(Update: I uploaded (more...)
Medium
Medium
Not fixed