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Don't get me wrong. I quite like a lot of Panther, but I hate a lot of
the new stuff too. And I've only been using if for an hour or so.
First up, the installer is stupid. It keeps displaying random bars with
random text. Installing foo. Processing foo. I'm not entirely sure what
installing does if it's not processing the files (and vice versa,) but
apparently it's a seperate thing. And the times are widly wrong. And you
think you're done and it just switches to another random installation
stage.
I hate (I mean, really, really dispise) that Apple want to put my whole
name "Mark Fowler" on the menubar for fast user switching. That's the
most valuable screen real estate in the world, and they want my whole name
there. Dumb. DUMB. DUMB!
I just set up a new account for guest users to use my system, and I wanted
to change thier default browser to be Camino. I spent ten minutes looking
in every single tab in System Preferences until I finally remembered that
they'd moved it inside Safari. So I have to load up Safari to tell it not
to load Safari, but load something else instead. Huh? What kind of logic
is this?
Don't get me started on the weird expose bug where it would trigger every
time I switched applications. Odd.
I hate the new finder. I had nice icons set up there so I could drag
things onto things onto the toolbar and things like opening a shell window
or loading the file in emacs or setting the directory as the default
location would happen. Now the space where the toolbar was is a large
fake metal section and all my icons are down the side of the page taking
up stupid amounts of space. I'm sure I can replace these with Folder
Actions or something, but damnit, my old solution worked.
Oh, and would it really have killed Apple to compile in X11 support for
emacs? No, I don't think so.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
print q{Mark Fowler, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx, http://twoshortplanks.com/};
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