So I thought OSX Lion sounded interesting and I went and upgraded... Only to find out there's a bunch of stuff removed and changed for worse - not made that clear in the reviews/press. Also the claimed 'new' features are few. So here's a list of a few gripes I have with it so far:
- No colour icons in the Sidebar - Not a big deal but it just makes it less use-able
- Quick look video preview slow - It's performance is now so bad that my fan kicks in when viewing (it seems to use WAY more CPU than the Quicktime app)
- 'Full Screen' is no different from Apple-F in the previous OSX versions as far as I can see (though some additional apps have it now like Terminal).
- Never seen the need for the iphone-esk 'LauncherPad' - a bit of a waste of time.
- Frontrow removed - It was handy for viewing a bunch of movies
- 'Leather' look for iCal and Address Book - That is seriously Cheesy style?! (Fortunately it can be tweaked away...but with hackery)
On the plus side there are some benefits but so far not many:
- Resize handles on every side of a window (not the just the bottom right)
- Slightly more helpful searching in folders - it prompts you with 'filename'
- Terminal finally has full screen (but I gave up on it years ago for iTerm2, as Apple's Terminal still doesn't work with vim and others properly)
- Air Drop anyone? (not managed to try it yet.... but it sounds nice: Wifi file transfer)
