Here’s a few more things I’ve found over the last few days. I’m holding off on doing a full review until I’ve had it for a week or so, and lets face it, there’s plenty of other reviews out there! For the moment though, here are a few more discoveries and opinions on Apple’s new operating system, with this post focusing mostly on some of the minor bugs and issues I’ve come across.
- I installed Leopard on my iMac as well as my laptop. Funnily enough, I don’t mind the 3d dock as much on the bigger screen, although I do still prefer the alternative one.
- The print module in Photoshop Lightroom seems to be broken under Leopard.
- “Repair Privileges” no longer seems to work, either in Disk Utility or in the Terminal. I know there is much controversy over the effectiveness of “repair privileges, but it has solved problems for me in the past, so it definitely does work. Or at least it did. More on this to come.
- Ecto 2 has issues with Leopard, so I switched to using the beta of Ecto 3, which has issues all of its own.
- I mentioned in the previous article that I felt the drop shadows were too much and that the whole interface was too dark. My system was set to use a gamma of 2.0 (set when calibrating the display) because I do a lot of design work for television, and that’s the native gamma there. When I switched back to a 1.8 gamma, everything looked much better.
- Screen sharing in iChat is cool. I’ve already had call to use it to remotely solve a relative’s mac problems, but it can get confused by routers. It should work fine in most home settings, but in an office network it could be an issue
- Spotlight is very fast, and much much much better than in Tiger, however it can’t seem to find system files, unless I’m doing something wrong. I was trying to find “system.keychain” on another computer yesterday and it could not find it, even though it was right in front of me in an open window. I don’t quite know what’s going on here, so if anyone has any ideas, please let me know
- I had a strange problem the other night where the spotlight menu appeared under the menu bar. See screen shot below:
- My menu bar is not transparent on my iMac G5 1.8ghz. There are some reports of this online. the speculation is that if your graphics card is not core image compatible it will not try and make the menu bar transparent. Im sure people are franticly searching for how to do this to other systems.
- There are some oddities with spaces. If you drag a window from one space to another and then that application opens up another window, like a preferences dialog, that appears in the space you originally launched the application in.
That’s it for now. Overall, I’m very impressed with the system, although some minor issues abound, there doesn’t seem (at least so far) to be any major hiccups. I can’t stress this enough, but if you are a laptop owner, the automatic un-mounting of servers in the background is worth the price alone.
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Spotlight’s default keyboard shortcut is command-space. Press command-space again to dismiss it.
To search for System items: In Finder, command-F. From Kind pop-up, select Other. In the search field, type System. Select it; enable In Line. Click ok. Search for item name.