Okay and now the gripes:
* Safari in OS X changed the tab-opening behavior to be more like iOS, opening new tabs next to the current one. Not what I want.
* Full-screen Mail.app doesn't show total number of messages in a mailbox, just the number of unread.
* Can't reorder screens. Need to close out applications and re-open in the order that I want.
* And in particular the Desktop always has to be the leftmost screen. I'd love to have a Desktop, and Mail to the left and iTerm to the right.
* Swipes are too similar. Back/forward a page in Safari is two fingers, back/forward a screen is three fingers. When I'm idly plinking away I've not swiped exactly right and ended up doing the other.
* I'd love next/previous tab gestures. More useful than back/forward a page.
* Invoking the dock while in a Full Screen application is tetchy at best. I haven't figured out the magic. It's not as easy as "cursor to the bottom of the screen", I have to wiggle it a little too.
* Or, failing that, I'd love to just turn off the dock entirely everywhere other than Mission Control. I'm getting more and more comfortable without it.
* Would be nice for some particular applications to be allowed to overlay on a full-screen application (like an IM window, really). It's a little jarring to switch between whole screens for something as (relatively) incidental as that.
* Oh! I forgot this one! Seems like mousing around on the trackpad doesn't wake up the display? Didn't it used to? Or am I forgetting something.
Doc always has been a useless piece of crap for power users. Now it's useless to everybody.
in 10.3 or 10.4 I used to have a "top" doc (using defaults to set it) which I kind of liked. The only way to make the doc appear/disappear was press option-command-d
Maybe this trick is still available?
Posted by: Yann | Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 08:13 PM
Unfortunately that doesnt seem like it works anymore. :(
Posted by: Abe Hassan | Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 08:43 PM
I've been wanting the doc to go away for years now.
Also, the 'not waking up' problem is also happening on my mini at home, the mouse is 'on' (red light), but the machine doesn't wake up unless I use the keyboard. Hate that.
Posted by: hachi | Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 11:13 PM
Dock, not doc....
Posted by: hachi | Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 11:13 PM
The new Safari tab behavior annoyed me also - I found an extension that changes it, since there doesn't seem to be a preference to adjust: LinkThing from Canisbos Computing. After you load it (if you decide to try it) you right click on a link to access the settings.
Posted by: Ethan | Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 05:47 AM
And to think I was going to talk to someone in peosrn about this.
Posted by: Luckie | Monday, August 08, 2011 at 10:38 PM