Fzang wrote:

Cash Eye wrote:Apple's fullscreen sucks.

Much better if they made it like in Windows. :-!

You mean something that takes up all space alone, disables multitasking and deprives you of your menu bar? Yeah, that'd be cool I guess.

Yeah for me anyways.

:thumbsup:

broesel wrote:Am I the only one here who'd like to vomit every time one of these disgusting new focus-outlines appears? :/

I honestly don't see any problems with them. You prefer the two bit dotted line seen in Windows?

.Neo wrote:I honestly don't see any problems with them

Just compare these screenshots:

Snow Leopard


Lion


The outline looks blurry in Lion because it's also on the inside (so, not really an 'outline' anymore), thus covering the dark border of the address bar.

.Neo wrote:You prefer the two bit dotted line seen in Windows?

Hell no

So I'm among the users going crazy thanks to apple's new "no custom sidebar icons in finder" decision, and I'm digging through OSX trying to find a way to at least hack in support for custom icons again, but I've hit a wall, and would love some feedback from those of you far more experienced than me.

Anyway, onwards!

So its easy enough to find the current icons in /system/library/coreservices/coretypes.bundle/contents/resources

since they're all prefaced with Sidebar, and each has 32px and 16px monochrome resources for the new cocoa sidebar processing.

Now, go up a level and look in info.plist, and you can see that every sidebar icon has a registered Document Type.

For example, "Sidebar All My Files Icon" has the Document OS Types set to: "sbAF"

So, next step, I made a blank text document, and using setFile from the command line, ran:

setFile -type 'sbAF' somefile.rtf

Now, after this, dragging somefile.rtf into the sidebar gave it the "All My Files" icon.

However, I can't find a way to set a type for folders, well, because they're folders after all and don't have a type. So then I tried using an alias to a folder, and while you can set the 'type' for an alias, when you try to drag it into the sidebar, it drags the original location, and not the alias, and thus no custom icon

Any thoughts?

My best guess is that there's a hard coded list somewhere of what directories get custom icons, and if so, then its just a matter of time of finding it before we can add/delete/modify custom icons. And then it should be easy enough to add new icons to coretypes.bundle, I know that's a scary thought, but there's not much else I can think of unless apple decides to build custom icon support into a future update.

Cheers everyone,

broesel wrote:The outline looks blurry in Lion because it's also on the inside (so, not really an 'outline' anymore), thus covering the dark border of the address bar.

I don't see how the OS X Lion selection borders are "blurry". They're just in a different style and less strong, something I like.

Lion is not even beta-worthy. I'd consider it alpha software.

My friend installed it today and lost 20GB worth of files because Finder randomly stopped moving the files from his external hard drive. Also, had this weird (unrelated) bug: http://i56.tinypic.com/9scewi.png.

@broesel: Me too. Me too. An intern (a really bad one) must have designed the new highlight. It's too distracting.

broesel wrote:Am I the only one here who'd like to vomit every time one of these disgusting new focus-outlines appears?

I'm with ya!

broesel wrote:I know how to disable them on OS checkboxes and dropdown lists

Care to share how?

Since when did this site become macwhiners.net? Seriously, if you think you’ve somehow been personally insulted or wronged because of interface changes or issues with a new version of software, you really need to get some perspective on things. Every major OS X revision has had bugs. It’s not an issue of Apple not caring. It’s not a lack of testing. Go back to Snow Leopard if you hate it so much. People who self-inflict discomfort by doing something by choice that they do not like and then have the audacity to complain about their discomfort should be outlawed from making choices. Criticism is one thing. Whining is good for nothing, however.

onyxleopard wrote:Since when did this site become macwhiners.net? Seriously, if you think you’ve somehow been personally insulted or wronged because of interface changes or issues with a new version of software, you really need to get some perspective on things. Every major OS X revision has had bugs. It’s not an issue of Apple not caring. It’s not a lack of testing. Go back to Snow Leopard if you hate it so much. People who self-inflict discomfort by doing something by choice that they do not like and then have the audacity to complain about their discomfort should be outlawed from making choices. Criticism is one thing. Whining is good for nothing, however.

Change really bothers most people. The Eiffel tower was a gift, and when the monument was erected, citizens went into an uproar. They hated the thing; called for it to be razed from the skyline. Today, it is one of Paris' prized structures... a part of their heritage.

Give it time. The same complainers will hate OS X 10.8 and reminisce about how wonderful Lion was at the time of release

inket wrote:Lion is not even beta-worthy. I'd consider it alpha software.

My friend installed it today and lost 20GB worth of files because Finder randomly stopped moving the files from his external hard drive. Also, had this weird (unrelated) bug: http://i56.tinypic.com/9scewi.png.

@broesel: Me too. Me too. An intern (a really bad one) must have designed the new highlight. It's too distracting.

your friend;s porn collection is fine.

if all he was doing was copying from one drive to another, the originals will all be on the hard drive it was being copied from.

as for that weird bug, that is odd. but then i'm used to seeing everything in english.

Oops, wrong topic. Anyhow, has someone found already the resources to mod Safari reader? :-!

Dali wrote:Care to share how?

ctrl + F7, which disables the "full keyboard access" - this:

broesel wrote:I know how to disable them on OS checkboxes and dropdown lists

was actually a response to this

costee wrote:System Preferences--> Keyboard--> Shortcuts--> Full keyboard access

roosta wrote:your friend;s porn collection is fine.

if all he was doing was copying from one drive to another, the originals will all be on the hard drive it was being copied from.

as for that weird bug, that is odd. but then i'm used to seeing everything in english.

Actually, they were important files for college. Film editing stuff. (sigh... no... not porn editing :p)
The originals were automatically removed because Finder thought the file move has ended successfully when obviously it didn't.

@onyxleopard:

If you think that it's fine to have major bugs to essential parts of an OS because "previous major versions had them too", then, wow.

As much as I like the bug-less experience of Snow Leopard, I'm not going to waste countless hours on reinstalling and updating an old version only to upgrade again to Lion when a patch is released. I would have stayed with Windows if I wanted to keep reinstalling an OS every month.

Also, it's not called "making a choice" when you install Lion thinking it's a final when it's clearly a beta.

"Whining" could actually serve as a warning to users planning on upgrading to Lion and those who are currently using it without knowing how flawed it is. Just so they know that they should be careful when using it. So basically it's like saying "Hey guys, it just doesn't work. Be careful.", only in more details.


Anyone know if the elements' highlight is hard-coded or mod-able ?

@ inket
Your friend should have had data backups if the files were important. I think you’re living in a fantasy world if you think that any commercial software will be bug-free. I’ve been using Lion since the official MAS release and the only bugs I’ve encountered have been UI related and have not impacted ‘essential parts’ of the OS. If you honestly are going to try to argue that installing Lion (and further, that installing over your Snow Leopard installation instead of a separate partition) was not a choice then, “wow", right back at you. Snow Leopard is not ‘bug-less’ by any means either. Lion fixed old bugs if you care to look through the dev preview release notes. You can report bugs and bring attention to flaws without whining.

onyxleopard wrote:@ inket
Your friend should have had data backups if the files were important.

Amen to that. Time Machine is actually pretty stellar. I've relied on it for full system restores more than once and aside from a few tiny things (making private folder visible), it does a bang up job. Secondly, everyone knows you don't MOVE folders, but copy them over. Because if something happens, you still have the originals. Moving, even in Windows, is a flakey way of transferring important content.

Hey, Finder shouldn't choke, I'll give the OP that. A bug is a bug and should be fixed. But like onyxleopard above said, you still gotta use a bit of brain power and do a bit to prevent the likelihood of catastrophe. Your friend obviously didn't. Too bad so sad.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no one is defending the bug. They just don't seem to have a lot of sympathy for your careless friend that a) didn't have backups, b) trusted a move over a copy, and c) complains when they got bit.

That's why you need to buckle up. Because it's not like people go out of their way to hit you, but that's a possible scenario, so you take preventative action. Same deal here dude... same deal here. :-X

I'm more astonished at how the OS failed a basic task. Maybe I'm setting high standards, but it's 2011, guys.

@ inket
Did you bother to figure out why it failed? This was an external disk? Did it have a good power source? Was this a local disk or was it NAS? There are just so many factors there and Finder has NEVER been good with networked file systems. And, as you mention, it is 2011 and HFS+ is 26 years old! It’s amazing that it doesn’t have more problems. I would have used rsync if I was transferring 20GB of data, personally. That way I could be assured that the source remained intact even if the destination became corrupted or there was connectivity loss.

In other words, its everything's fault except the OS. :rolleyes:

inket wrote:I'm more astonished at how the OS failed a basic task. Maybe I'm setting high standards, but it's 2011, guys.

To be fair, this problem of moving big files and losing them is older than Lion. In fact, last time I experienced it, it was on Snow Leopard when I was making a backup for installing Lion.

It's enough to happen you once for you to lose all confidence in the Finder. I don't move big and lots of files between disks anymore. I copy and paste, and then delete (yeah, I know, that's what is supposed to by doing the system when you move files, but tell that to the missing files…).

onyxleopard wrote:Finder has NEVER been good with networked file systems.

Exactly. Off course Apple / OS X is to blame, but I just wanted to make clear that this has been happening since forever. Actually the finder is more stable now than it was in the past.

I have changed apps icon with Candybar but it didn't change in launchpad, in finder is ok, any issue?

Go to ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/ and delete the .db file. Restart after that. Launchpad will then be forced to reset the cache. This also means layouts, unfortunately.

Skorpion24 wrote:Anyone figured out how to change wallpaper in all the desktops? :/

Open Mission Control and select the desktop you want to change. Change it in the normal way
System Preferences> Desktop & Screensaver. Be sure to close System Preferences when you have selected the wallpaper you wanted for that desktop. Reopen System Preferences on each new desktop.

Each desktop will retain which ever wallpaper you choose. You can have as many different desktop wallpapers as you have desktops. Part of Lion is a setting that reopens windows from the last log in after logging out or restarting. Don't change this option and you'll keep the desktops you have set. You may have to drag open application windows to the desktop you want to use- similar to the way Spaces worked in SL.

Repeat by going back to Mission Control and select another desktop.

If you X out of a desktop from Mission Control, you lose that desktop, but you can easily add another one by clicking in the top right corner. A new desktop will fade in and can be clicked to add a desktop workspace to Mission Control.

You can do the 3 finger swish to move from one to another, or use Mission Control.

To change the Mission Control wallpaper from the default-
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/12/change-mission-control-background-wallpaper-image-mac-os-x/
To change the Dashboard wallpaper from default-
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/27/change-background-wallpaper-of-dashboard-mac-os-x-lion/
To change the Launchpad Folder Background-
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/03/change-l ... os-x-lion/

I like this part of Lion.

If anyone has figured out how to change the apple in the menubar, I'd love to know how you did it.

Twa wrote:I have changed apps icon with Candybar but it didn't change in launchpad, in finder is ok, any issue?

From another thread

baRRy boRRis wrote:If you change the icons using the 'folder method' in addition to Candybar it changes it for launchpad.

A screen recording to illustrate:-

http://cl.ly/8g5e

That's a lovely find. I had no idea.

Does anyone know if there's an attempt at fixing Lion's awful dual-monitor behavior? When you fullscreen an app, your second monitor basically becomes useless, because it's covered with a blank, fullscreen linen background.

Fzang wrote:Does anyone know if there's an attempt at fixing Lion's awful dual-monitor behavior? When you fullscreen an app, your second monitor basically becomes useless, because it's covered with a blank, fullscreen linen background.

I've found a workaround for this but it's really not a permanent solution.
By editing the application's info.plist and making LSUIElement true the application loses it's dock icon and doesn't show up in alt+tab menu anymore. You can however then open the application and use it while in full-screen with another app.
I feel like i did a horrible job at explaining it, here's an example.

I wanted to use Textmate in fullscreen while showing a browser on my second display to do web development.
I managed to do this with these 2 specific apps by duplicating the safari app (not sure if this is a good idea, didn't seem to cause problems), changing the info.plist of the duplicate, going into fullscreen with Textmate and then opening the duplicate of safari and dragging it to the second display.

It's all a bit cumbersome and you have to prepare specific apps with the correct info.plist setting, really annoying.