Hey everyone. My two cents.
Hiding the scroll bars is kinda cool but when scrolling down to the bottom of a long list I realized that the horizontal bar covers the last item on the list. So now I have to wait till the bar disappears before I can get at the file. Minor problem but really annoying after a while. I had to switch them on all the time. Meaning I had to work to fix the problem and the solution was to put it back the way it was in SL.
That indicates you're a little baby that needs to be taken cared.... ITS NOT HARD TO FIX IT>... GO TO PERFERENCE....
Even more growl stuff popping up. I hated growl. I still do. I turned it off then. Now it's apparently called badges (like on the iPhone). Still annoying. More stuff to turn off. I guess some people need to be harassed by their computers so maybe this one could be given a pass.
True complainer....
Drag and drop does a silly, unnecessary animation. I can't remember ever dragging and dropping and thinking, "god I wish this thing animated the icons into a vertical list". In fact there is a whole bunch of tacky animations that have been added to the OS, like the bounce when you reach the bottom of a doc for instance and the new bounce out of a new file when you hit save as (now duplicate apparently) in Pages.Which brings me to the next thing.
Save as. Pages lost it's save as. Now I have a duplicate button which is only almost the same thing. It used to simply keep one document open, rename it and save it. Now hitting save as leaves you with two open files. I use a lot of templates so now the original template file (which I no longer need) remains open. Awesome. I later discovered that holding option brings back my button. Although now the shortcut requires alt as well.
You can actually fix it to make it permantely save as without duplicating...this one you have to google it...I know I DID
Fullscreen sucks if you have two monitors. Why? because you can only use one monitor while in fullscreen mode, meaning there is no real gain in screen real-estate.
Spotlight. I use spotlight all the time. I never go sifting through folders to find anything. I cmd-spacebar and search spotlight for what I'm looking for. If I don't find it in the first few items I would hit show all in finder at the top and get a longer list. This list is now sorted by dates, which at first seemed awesome but it turns out is not. Not everything you need was opened today or recently for that matter. Off to the bottom of the pile for you. searching for delayed woosh in my finder search bar leads to this listing:
Previous 30 days
SAticoNew.xmp
Earlier
Audio Plug-Ins Guide.pdf
AIR Virtual Instruments.pdf
Delayed woosh.wav
Delayed woosh.mp3
I was looking for the last one. Awesome.
Another fun thing about the finder search is that it now lists name matches as a drop down which turns the search into a token. This means hitting delete won't erase just the last letter but the whole thing. You have to double click the word to be able to edit it. Advantages of turning the word into a token? None.
Quicklook got hurt. Used to be, I would spacebar and get an image in quick look. Then I would pinch to go full screen. It didn't matter where you pinched, now it must be done on the top bar. This is not true of videos, only images. Also pinching to leave fullscreen works fine for text files and videos but not images. Pdfs also don't go fullscreen but rather zoom in within the view. These used to all work the same way. It's also generally uglier, but that's not quick look specific. It's got a couple of new buttons at the top and some of the new functionality is welcome. Still, half a good thing. Half a bad one.
Notification center is cool and so is iCloud. I heard someone argue that it's not safe but I just keep my state secrets and naked lady pictures off the cloud. It's been working fine.
The OS as a whole is less responsive. Not slower, just not responsive. Sometimes I need to click a bunch of times at a window before it figures out I want it to be in focus.
Not big on the facebook stuff but I guess it's a good thing for many users. I just tried to make sure I didn't get people's stupid facebook pictures in my contacts.
Autocorrect sucks. There has never been a good autocorrect. There apparently never will be. I'm tired of sending people incoherent emails because autocorrect thought I meant ass instead of ask. I turned it off but the suggestions get selected if you hit spacebar so if it suggests some dumb thing towards the end of the word you need to arrow key into the next word instead of space or you'll change what you wrote. It's happened several times while I was writing this.
Had no problem there.
So yeah, if I could go back to SL, I would. But I need Lion specific software to work these days. So I'm stuck with ML. I believe this mayhem started during Lion so I'm not even contemplating going for that one.
