Comments by user "jasper"
Registered since: September 1, 2008
Snow Leopard - the new minimize option has no clear indication of minimized windows
I do have to say that Apple didn't enable this feature by default. It gave the option, so most users won't even bother, and those that do are usually geeky enough to figure it out or remember it...
There is no native support for read/write NTFS in OS X
Actually, this is a licensing issue. Microsoft developed NTFS as it's own Filesystem and therefore owns most technology. It also owns FAT32, but because of the wild circulation and near-impossibility to get money back on that (except for a few unlucky ones), it was 'open-sourced'.
Apple's doesn't want to buy technology from Microsoft, and not this one. If you want a good way of storing files, get a FAT32 disk. If your files are to big for that, partition it NTFS or HFS+. You'll have to choose, but the real regular user doesn't have files bigger than 4Gb...
Don't have Safari open dmg's automatically
First of all, Apple doesn't control what you're installing. An installer can't install without the user typing his password. If you know you can trust a file from hackeronline servers, then go ahead and install it. If you didn't download it from Apple, don't believe it is from Apple. This is like the age-ratings of games, parents should look at them but they don't. Then they blame the gamemakers for creating brutal content that their kid created.
Your first article contains the folowing notion: Warning Indicators
Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server versions 10.4.8 and prior are vulnerable.
It sais 'and prior'. Currently, it's, erm, version 10.6? Even 10.4 has a higher update number than 8. So as long as these ar occuring, wich means not anymore, then... Wait, that isn't a point at all. This is a past, solved problem.
The second one again: things that are downloaded and openend in the background still require user verification when installing. Just only install from sources you love. Would you buy a hacked copy of a game of some street merchant who wrote it himself to infect your computer? Why is everyone trying to find a commen enemy here? It's your own personal fault. You're supposed to install only what you know. Apple provides it's updates through system update (wich is just a mask for downloading the DMG from Apple the hard way - namely on their website). Most applications you know check for updates automaticly and will not download malicious files. So if you don't recognize it, don't istall it.
You know what you download on the foreground, you are informed of waht downloads and tries something in the background and you get the possibility to stop it before it does something wrong. Now, is it me, or is this the fault of the masses of people surfing to the wrong sites that download background apps to your computer and then blame someone else but themselves?
Snow Leopard - the new minimize option has no clear indication of minimized windows
Maybe a more subtle iPhone-pages-like solution below the icon would work better, but off course for limited windows. I think the solution proposed now seems like updates to the application, and not windows..
Movie preview thumbnails not showing in Coverflow or Grid views
I think this is an isolated problem, as all my movie files with Perian and Flip4Mac installed give me previews in all modes...
Don't have Safari open dmg's automatically
Than it changed just recently, since I remember that safari's download window always asked me 'this is a DMG file and it might contain an application, do you want to run it?'. Also, the first time an application is run the OS asks if you want to run it, though I'm not sure how it does that with packaged installers. Also, all official Apple updates are distributed through the software update application, so don't be fooled. Also, there are very few trojans out there.
Still, if Safari doesn't do this anymore I have to wonder why they threw that precaution out...
Don't have Safari open dmg's automatically
Great idea, davehutch. Except that Firefox is, for me, just bloated. Safari asks when you download DMGs if they are safe, and opening an DMG doesn't automaticly install or change things. It just opens them. So first of all, there is no risk in opening them, and second: just turn the automatic opening off.
Also: the 'coverflow' rubbish is simple and usefull, while the 'IT' rubbish that Firefox offers is mostly complicated.
Finder: better switching between Finder windows
I seem to like Exposé. Anyone ever heard of that? You can switch to Finder and then use the applications specific F10 trigger, or you could just hold your mouse down. I think it's more a problem of habit, since even though I have lots of Finder windows open, I'm not craving for a way to use alt-tab as a window switcher. I can understand, but implementing it only for the finder would be confusing...
The red X to close the window does not close the program / application
Let's bash him because he likes Windows more than MacOS!
Sorry, but this is a standard convention on mac. If a mac user switched to windows, they'de close applications without intentions too, and they too have to understand why. I hate it when I close iTunes on Windows assuming it will run in the background, but then ends my music on the spot (okay, Apple application, but just replace it by Photoshop and the same is true).
Different Dock layout for each Space
Also, how would you suggest doing this without it being confusing to users? Off course, spaces itself is already a more pro-oriented feature, but still, managing docks across spaces will complicate things and it eliminates the purpose for the dock as an application indicator.
If you give me a good solution that doesn't complicate stuff for the new users and the not-so-advanced user, and I'll agree. Else, this shouldn't be considered.
Finder: use the searchbox for filtering of folder contents
I also noticed this when searching external hard drives (often resulting in a 'Agh! I'm sure the file was on th... ow, it's not searching the drive'). Change the default behavior (yes, Microsoft had it right on this one).
Ugly "loading" mouse cursor
Honestly, I don't mind at all. What bugs me is that you call the icon 'ugly' - it's a great design and it doesn't annoy at all.
I think MacOS has these icons in backup, in case that animating the beachball puts to much strain on the system that's already trying hard to load.
Press enter to open folder or file
It is a matter of habbit. You switched from Windows, and you're wondering why that key doesn't work the way it used to. Sadly, no Apple keyboard has the word 'enter' on it, just a line-break symbol. It's a line break. Pressing the linebreak allows you to edit the linename of the selected file. However, this might not seem so obvious and I can understand why you're asking this.
But penname: NINJA90 brought up the Windows thing... If anybody says 'because Windows does it', we tell them that it's not even an argument. It's just ranting, because you don't need to copy something because people are used to it with your competitor. MacOS dates back a long time, longer than Windows, and isn't going to change just because Windows does it. We could also, as macusers, suggest the other way around and let Windows adopt cmnd+O to open a folder. Luckily enough, we think it's pointless to start pointing out the flaws in Windows.
Never mention Windows here, because it's sadly enough mostly a bad suggestion when you want to CHANGE something to MacOS. When you want to add something that Windows has, it's different.
Press enter to open folder or file
The problem is that people don't know their history. It's Microsoft that made a mess of the existing keyboards, making the command move to control and adding 'enter' on the key. Mac keyboards don't feature that word, they feature a go-a-line-below sign, and they have ever since it's inception.
Here a piece of history for those who want to know.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/08/11/how-ap...indows-pcs-gained-one/
Can't eject disk because of program in use but which program?
Wrote on January 26, 2010, 7:27am
This is already more of a solution. A force eject usually shouldn't damage data, because usually it's not really using your external hard drive or any data on it, it is just retaining a connection. When you have no files open, no files actually get damaged. (This is the same reason why on Windows most users just pull out their USB when they're done: it doesn't harm anything, but on mac, users get a dangerous dialogue with an exclamation mark, scaring people about the consequences more often than not).
Not really a big problem and Snow Leopard at least improves the situation a lot with the possibility of forcefully ejecting it.