[Magicite]

This is a weird [minor] error:

1) Type in 'ginormous' into any cocoa app
2) Observe [if you have auto spell check turned on] that spell check things you've spelt it incorrectly
3) Right click / run spell checker
4) Stare in disbelief as it suggests 'wginormous' as the correct spelling

[.Neo]

I found out that when trying to use Dictionary on a word by pressing ctrl + cmd + D the window won't always appear. Seems random.

Also, the layout of my Pages documents look really off as none of the page breaks appear. The weird thing is everything looks fine on the document icon previews.

Originally Posted by Kevin 

But that really wasn't my point. In a lot of cases the hardware CAN support it. Apple just blocks it to a certain point so those that haven't bought hardware in awhile feel "guilted" into it , or obsolete because it wont display the latest eye candy.

Is there any proof for this beyond the cursor drop shadow example? For example, enable the Core Image ripple effect in Dashboard on my 2004 1GHz eMac without making the entire OS grind to a halt.

[JLL]

Originally Posted by MartiNZ 

Huh, didn't think of incapable GPU. This machine is a 12" PowerBook 1.5GHz with the GeForce Go5200, and System Profiler says "Hardware Accelerated" for Core Image. Actually I think that's a step up, in Tiger I'm pretty sure it just said "No". Either way, my menubar is solid grey.

And your desktop background is what?

[Simon]

Originally Posted by ~bash $ 

Another bug, this one with X11.app, it seems. And reproducible.

Any app window that is floating above an xterm window in X11.app ... when your focus is not X11 and you cmd+tab to X11, the window will not come to the top, though the "focus" is on the xterm window. Annoying!

Tested with Camino 1.5.2, Finder, Adium, iChat.

I remember that bug from Tiger.

At some point they fixed it though. Looks like the fix didn't make it into Leopard's X11.

What about the yellow cursor bug in ssh-forwarded X11 windows on Intel Macs? Has it been fixed in Leopard's X11?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by .Neo 

Is there any proof for this beyond the cursor drop shadow example? For example, enable the Core Image ripple effect in Dashboard on my 2004 1GHz eMac without making the entire OS grind to a halt.

I am not saying you can. I said it STARTED with the mouse, and since they got busted for that one, they are now making sure these effects DO only work on certain machines. Again it's the "Hey! I want my machine to do that too!" effect. Guilting it's customers to buy a newer Mac to "keep up"

Of course by the time the next OS is out, there will be a new eye candy that wont work with your computer.

This isn't making Apple customers as a whole HAPPY. As MOST don't have the latest and greatest.

A company's goal you would think would be to make the MAJORITY of it's users happy.

I remember users in here Slamming Vista for this very thing.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Kevin 

A company's goal you would think would be to make the MAJORITY of it's users happy.

When it comes to Apple maybe you would think that. And many others on this board probably too. But Apple's a business, not a church.

In reality a company's goal is to make a lot of profit and keep the MAJORITY of its shareholders happy. Apple is no exception. I wouldn't doubt for a moment that they hold back certain features on certain Macs just to increase pressure on people to buy new systems. It sucks, but that's they way it works.

[.Neo]

Exactly. Some people need to stop acting like Apple is a personal friend who just screwed them over.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Simon 

When it comes to Apple maybe you would think that. And many others on this board probably too. But Apple's a business, not a church.

How do you keep a business going? Making the users happy. When you have a bunch of mad users, business isn't going to be good. I was referring to business when I was talking about making the majority happy.

In reality a company's goal is to make a lot of profit and keep the MAJORITY of its shareholders happy. Apple is no exception. I wouldn't doubt for a moment that they hold back certain features on certain Macs just to increase pressure on people to buy new systems. It sucks, but that's they way it works.

I know how it works. And since we both agree it sucks, which was my complaint, I don't get the reason you replied to my post as if you were disagreeing with me.

Exactly. Some people need to stop acting like Apple is a personal friend who just screwed them over.

Oh I am surely not so delusional to think Apple is a friend. Nor do I have any loyalties for it. If something better comes out for what I do, I'd ditch Apple in a second. I almost did and would have if Be would have made it. Im just not going to be taking up for bad actions just because it "thats how it is" Nor should anyone.

Thats how it is because thats what the public has allowed it to be. If a lot of people complain about it, Apple will have to listen. Or the board members wont be happy either.

But since Apple has a loyal following of fanboys, they get away with a lot of things other companies would not.

It's that RDF.

The fact that people are JUST FINDING OUT after installing Leopard that these features Apple were touting don't work on their "supported" machine is horrible. Is there anything on their site stating that said bar will only work on certain machines? If not, Apple is playing bait and switch.

I believe they've been sued for doing such things before. I wont go into Apple's selling machines before 10.0 came out touting them "OS X ready" and then when OS X comes out, came to find out not all of the "Core" features in OS X worked on their "OS X ready" computer.

I know it pissed me off. Had I known my computer that I bought at the time wouldn't be fully OS X supported, I'd have never bought it at the time.

Anyone that claims that isn't a valid gripe is off their rocker.

[hellmachine]

someone tried the spaces feature "assign application"?
its great. you can add an app and if you open it, spaces will open it in a new space.
the bug is: java apps are not recognized. this sucks.
i wanted to assign jbidwatcher and auctionsieve to my ebay space, but they stay i the active space, not activating the assigned space. any workarounds?

[Reggie Fowler]

Upgrading to OS X 10.5 reminds me of original OS X 10.0 (bugy and a bit bloated)

1. Sherlock was deleted from my hard drive (without my knowledge).

2. AOL version 10.3.7/GM no longer allows me to Read Mail (nothing happens when i click on a message).

3. So I installed the latest AOL Desktop Beta 2 as a work around. It will allow me to read mail, but it won't allow me to Send Mail. Plain and simple, OS X 10.5 broke AOL!

4. My keychain permissions are all banged up. I keep having to enter passwords every few times I use certain programs like Mail. Example: when i click on an email link in Safari, Mail automatically loads up, however i'm required to enter a password to satisfy the keychain permission dialogue box. (for some reason it just wont' remember the password i'm entering)

5. Repairing permissions in Disk Utility now take 10x the time it use to.

6. When I hit Command/”i” while in Safari, I get the following error message: "Safari couldn't create an email message because it couldn't located an email application. You can use the Mail application included with Mac OS X to send webpages. To do so, you need to install Mail using the Mac OS X installation CDs." (of course Mail is installed)

7. Some of my RSS websites no longer show up as RSS in Safari. Take StarTribune.com | Vikings: Articles, blogs, video interviews, stats, photo galleries and more as an example. This site no longer shows RSS. However, I can force it to show up as RSS by typing: feed://www.startribune.com/rss/510.xml
It’s interesting to note that the RSS logo is a different shade of blue than the websites that properly show up as RSS under OS X 10.5

8. Version Tracker Pro crashes every time i check for new updates.

[JSD303]

Originally Posted by nycdunz 

this is annoying the hell out of me! every time i quit an app, the dock disappears and reappears! sigh, i did a clean fresh install too... what gives? i'm on a dual 2.7ghz g5 powermac if that makes a difference, anyone else have this problem?

I'm having the same problem with the dock disappearing briefly when I have minimized an app to the Dock and then click on it to maximize it - as it launches the dock disappears briefly every time. This also has happened when quitting applications, but isn't consistently reproducible. The dock does disappear briefly each time I try to launch a minimized-to-the-dock application. I assumed it was a legacy app or something interfering with the dock, so I tried a clean install on a different hard drive. Same result. So it must be Leopard that is having the problem.

Dual G5 PowerMac 2GB RAM yada yada...

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Simon 

When it comes to Apple maybe you would think that. And many others on this board probably too. But Apple's a business, not a church.

In reality a company's goal is to make a lot of profit and keep the MAJORITY of its shareholders happy. Apple is no exception. I wouldn't doubt for a moment that they hold back certain features on certain Macs just to increase pressure on people to buy new systems. It sucks, but that's they way it works.

It's true, many companies these days are under the mistaken belief that ignoring the user is a valid business model. Coincidentally, these are the companies you always hear complaining about how much trouble they're having.

[Kar98]

The red/yellow/green buttons in iTunes didn't get updated.

[Art Vandelay]

I had this install problem on three installs with two different Macs. All the normally invisible files at the root of the drive are visible. In all cases I had erased the drive in Disk Utility before beginning the install. So, it was a clean, pristine install each time. I did have another Mac where the files were invisible as they should be. Anyone else see this?

Btw, I have since created a .hidden file to hide all the files on both Macs.

[adamfishercox]

Originally Posted by Kar98 

The red/yellow/green buttons in iTunes didn't get updated.

That sucks. Why can't they just let iTunes use the system's GUI files? Leopard looks almost like it now, anyway.

[Kar98]

Originally Posted by adamfishercox 

That sucks. Why can't they just let iTunes use the system's GUI files? Leopard looks almost like it now, anyway.

Fixed that for me:



RapidShare: 1-Click Webhosting

Unzip. Copy contained .rsrc file. Quit iTunes. Navigate to Apps folder. Right-click on iTunes, show package contents. Paste file over the existing one. Delete the foreign language packages like ta-tamil.lproj while you're there. Restart iTunes

I know it's a nit pick, but once I noticed it, it bugged me. So it's a bug

[cwosigns]

Originally Posted by Reggie Fowler 

6. When I hit Command/”i” while in Safari, I get the following error message: "Safari couldn't create an email message because it couldn't located an email application. You can use the Mail application included with Mac OS X to send webpages. To do so, you need to install Mail using the Mac OS X installation CDs." (of course Mail is installed)

I was having this problem on my BlackBook with 10.4.10 but thought upgrading to Leopard would fix it. It's still broken.

[EricTheRed]

Originally Posted by EricTheRed 

After a restart <command- i> on the keyboard is working.

Safari browser window becomes inoperable only after I try to print, which spits out the message "A printing error occurred" after the print job spools to the print manager but before the print manager opens or the printer responds by warming up.

Follow up:

Monday I must have a printer working (for work).

My work-around for the printer was to run out and purchase a new Brother printer. Brother printers really are plug and play and the drivers are included in OSX 10.5.

By proxy, the new printer also fixes the Safari window freeze problem as well.

[.Neo]

Originally Posted by adamfishercox 

That sucks. Why can't they just let iTunes use the system's GUI files? Leopard looks almost like it now, anyway.

They made QuickTime a picture perfect Mac OS X application with version 7, they really need to do the same with iTunes.