Having used Leopard for the last week or so, I offer the following critique:
1. Quick Look is wonderful but has two deplorable flaws: a) it gives you no way to set a default window size for the preview (which is initially too small to be legible on my large screen); and b) it resizes most files sensibly, but makes an exception for MSWD files, which when resized maintain their initial font size and just fill differently.
2. Cover Flow is also wonderful, but please tell me
o why can't I drop a file onto a folder icon in cover view?
o why did Apple decide to maintain a global view setting instead
of remembering the view I last used on a given window?
(so when you change view, the change applies to all non-open windows)
o why not generate a cover for a file that has an overridden icon
rather than blow up a tiny icon to make a dumb looking cover?
3. The new dock looks great on the bottom of the screen, but not so great if you put it on either side.
4. New finder windows won't allow you to narrow the sidebar so that only the icon shows. 10.4 did allow this. Allowing you to change the sidebar width to make it WIDER than the icon plus name strikes me as useless (can anybody think of a use for this feature?).
5. The idea of representing shared devices in the dock as piles of their icons is poorly thought out, since many of these will consist of nothing but piles of folders -- so they will all look the same. Since I had a unique icon for each of mine and they all looked fine in the old dock, I'm underwhelmed by this "improvement."
1. Quick Look is wonderful but has two deplorable flaws: a) it gives you no way to set a default window size for the preview (which is initially too small to be legible on my large screen); and b) it resizes most files sensibly, but makes an exception for MSWD files, which when resized maintain their initial font size and just fill differently.
2. Cover Flow is also wonderful, but please tell me
o why can't I drop a file onto a folder icon in cover view?
o why did Apple decide to maintain a global view setting instead
of remembering the view I last used on a given window?
(so when you change view, the change applies to all non-open windows)
o why not generate a cover for a file that has an overridden icon
rather than blow up a tiny icon to make a dumb looking cover?
3. The new dock looks great on the bottom of the screen, but not so great if you put it on either side.
4. New finder windows won't allow you to narrow the sidebar so that only the icon shows. 10.4 did allow this. Allowing you to change the sidebar width to make it WIDER than the icon plus name strikes me as useless (can anybody think of a use for this feature?).
5. The idea of representing shared devices in the dock as piles of their icons is poorly thought out, since many of these will consist of nothing but piles of folders -- so they will all look the same. Since I had a unique icon for each of mine and they all looked fine in the old dock, I'm underwhelmed by this "improvement."