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Play/Pause (F8) button forces to open iTunes in Snow Leopard

Submitted by manujarvinen on March 25, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: 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: 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...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

Sort by 'Date Added' in Dock behaves unexpectedly

Submitted by Jelle Fresen on March 14, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: 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...)

Solution: Apply the expected sort order.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Spotlight to scan network drives

Submitted by HIP70890 on February 7, 2010 to Bug

Problem: Apple has de-actived spotlights scans on network shares on snow leopard clients. Tags are now only being created on the local system and on Mac OSX Server, which results in not finding files on the network shares when searching for them via Spotlight.
(more...)

Solution: Provide a feature by which I can make Spotlight scan the remote network drives. Either all or better for selected drives.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

Pages: Enable copy for selected text of a given style

Submitted by Ptujec on December 13, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: 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.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Application icons are not refreshed when an app is freshly installed

Submitted by bastyani on September 26, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug

Problem: Usually when you install a new application or update an existing application the system uses a "default" icon for that app in the application list until you start the application.
The problem is that even when the app is started for a (more...)

Solution: A simple refresh of the icons after the app is started would do the trick.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

"Different" shutdown menu in the new Snow Leopard (10.6)

Submitted by bastyani on August 30, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: (this applies to the new Snow Leopard (10.6) )
When using the Ctrl-EJECT shortcut to invoke the "restart/shutdown" menu
in the new Snow Leopard (10.6) there is only the ShutDown button selected.
It is nothing wrong with (more...)

Solution: I like the old way more than the new one.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

(3 comments)

Turning off display (sleep display) on an Imac via ctrl-sift-eject, buggy behavior

Submitted by Tumki on August 8, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug

Problem: When turning off my display via ctrl-shift-eject, or using a hot-corner, to put my display to sleep will not work. My display goes to sleep for 2 - 3 seconds and then comes back on, even when no applications are running (at least that i'm aware of). (more...)

Solution: I would expect the 'sleep display' to work in the same way as the screensaver. When I leave my Imac on during the night while running a rendering or something like that, I would like my display to be off completely. Not a screensaver running, (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Sound Up and Down in MBP

Submitted by rkunapareddy on July 28, 2009 to Bug

Problem: Recently I played VCD in my MBP and after playing 1 hr movie the sound got changed and volume got decreased and seem surround is not working.

Any help appreciated !

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Finder: opening file removes undo option

Submitted by mojo2012 on June 20, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: Most of the operations that can be done though finder can be undone afterwards, eg. renaming the fileextension. But if you open a file after doing something, the last operation cannot be undone anymore.

In my case I sometimes get ISO files (more...)

Solution: Allow undo even after opening a file between the opening process and the last operation.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Finder: listview and copying files with keyboardshortcut

Submitted by mojo2012 on June 20, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: If the Finder is in listview and a sub folder is opened with the "triangle" symbol, the shortcut cmd-v doesn't paste the file in the opened/selected subfolder but in the main folder that is opened in the current finder window.

(more...)

Solution: If a sub folder in listview is "opened" (triangle top is on the bottom) and the folder or a file in the folder is selected, then a cmd-v should paste the file into this folder, and not in the folder that is currently shown in the finder window.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Multimonitor: autodetection fails after unplugging second monitor

Submitted by mojo2012 on June 14, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: I have a Macbook Pro and sometimes I connect an external monitor and use it as the main screen. The internal screen is disabled (booting with closed lid). When opening the lid, the internal screen stays black, but after unplugging the external screen, (more...)

Solution: Pressing F7 on Macbook Pro should not only rotate the display mode but include the autodetection to check if the second screen is still there.

(I don't know how other Macs handle that).

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)

New E-mail Window Starts in background

Submitted by renatocoral on May 27, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug

Problem: Whenever i'm in an application other than Mail and click on an e-mail link, a new message windows in Mail.app is openned but stays behind Mail's main window.
I don't know if that has to do with a Spaces problem but it happens all (more...)

Solution: New message window should always come in the foreground.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Safari: incorrect behaviour for "graphite" theme

Submitted by mojo2012 on May 17, 2009 to Aesthetics, Bug

Problem: I don't like "traffic light" colors so I always switch to "graphite". This gives the whole system a very consistent chrome look. But the loading indicator of Safari's address bar does always look blue.

Solution: Make Safari's loading indicator match the chosen system theme.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Finder: Rename bug with long filenames

Submitted by mojo2012 on May 12, 2009 to Bug

Problem: If you try to rename (very) long filenames the "renaming box" shows the first 3 lines. If you then go to the end end select up to the beginning, all lines above the last 3 will not be shown. This makes it impossible to rename the file properly.
(more...)

Solution: Simply fix it.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Safari: not switching to space when search is activated

Submitted by mojo2012 on April 26, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug

Problem: If there is a safari window with an active search (searchbar visible + dimmed website background + highlighted text), then the alt-tab doesn't switch to the space, where the Safari window is. Safari is being activated - the menu bar changes - but (more...)

Solution: Make the spaces autoswitch mechanism work while safari has a running search.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)