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[teflon]

Is it that big a deal? It's annoying for the 2 minutes it took for me to sort out which apps I want in the dock, but now it means I'll practically never accidentally drag an app from there, that I want to keep in there. It turns the action from being accidental 50% of the time, after initial set up, to being accidental, maybe 1% of the time.

Is that a bad thing? Heck, I used to lock the dock in 10.6 and 10.7, because I'd occasionally screw stuff up absentmindedly otherwise. No need anymore, as the Dock is much less corruptible.

On the whole, I think Mountain Lion has done a really good job of toning down some of the stupid decisions Apple made in Lion, for those that want to do so. They're still going to ease people along to where they think computing should go, though, so we'll see where that leaves us over the next few years.

[Thain Esh Kelch]

They just put a delay on the icons. Dont just pull, but pull and wait one second, then release. Quite neat.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Is it that big a deal for me personally and specifically.. was I complaining? Not really, no.   Was anyone really?

[Cougar]

#1 favorite feature in Mountain Lion: Core Animation in Safari. Silky-Smooth scolling FTW.
#2: all-window expose option in Mission Control. No more annoying grouping of windows.

And I imagine #3 will be tab sync, once I get my hands on iOS 6. That will be extremely useful.

For those who use Adium and would like to use Notification Center with it, I stumbled upon a preliminary build of Adium on this page. Hiss was not an adequate solution because clicking on the notification would not take you to the app.

For those disappointed in the fact there is no physical media for ML: Apple stated that their USB stick didn't sell, so you can't exactly blame them for not making one this time around. Download it before you go to bed, or buy it from the MAS and then find a speedy torrent. No big deal.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Maybe because too many people made their own to justify paying the price premium.

[Frost]

Smoke_Tetsu, on 29 July 2012 - 03:51 PM, said:

Maybe because too many people made their own to justify paying the price premium.

Most likely. There was no reason for that.

It costs us $40 to make a little USB stick and put it in paperboard! Yeah right.

[Janichsan]

Yup, they made that Flash drive version of Lion as unattractive as possible. It came far too late and was far too expensive (Three time as much as the MAS version? More than twice as expensive as the DVD version of SL? No wonder no one bought that.)

By the way, I just learned that ML brings back another dearly missed option from the good old days: the beloved "Save As...". It's a bit hidden by default, though.

[The Liberator]

Janichsan, on 30 July 2012 - 01:46 AM, said:

By the way, I just learned that ML brings back another dearly missed option from the good old days: the beloved "Save As...". It's a bit hidden by default, though.

Really? I'm now actually thinking of upgrading to ML just to fix the new featues that Lion brought in.

Lib.

[Matt Diamond]

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EDIT: My other major annoyance, "Scroll direction: Natural" for the mouse preference pane and the trackpad preference pane are still tied together. So, still going into system preferences to toggle it manually every time I switch between the trackpad and mouse.

Try Scroll Reverser, a free application that gives you full, independent control of the scroll direction of trackpad and mouse. (Also, solves Lion's problem where you can't set the scrolling direction for mice if you don't have a trackpad.)

[dojoboy]

How do I add a developer to "identified developer'? So i can open my apps!  

[doh123]

dojoboy, on 31 July 2012 - 05:11 PM, said:

How do I add a developer to "identified developer'? So i can open my apps!  

just right click the app, and select "Open" and it'll ask you to confirm you want to run it... and it'll let you launch it fine after that.

[teflon]

Edit: Oh, I didn't realise that allowing it via right clicking and using Open was a permanent thing. Cool

Courtesy of Siracusa's ridiculously good OS X reviews, you can remove an app from the quarantined list using the Terminal command:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine [appname].app

Gatekeeper also seems not to care about apps which you copy across to your computer, only the ones that you download from the internet, and so are logged in the quarantine database.

[mindnoise]

is Preview and Text Edit now usable again?

in Lion it takes ages for them to open.

like Preview takes at least 3 time longer than Acrcobat does at least with my system,
and I unchecked that Remember open windows-feature.


"SAVE AS"... my good old friend!

[Hansi]

mindnoise, on 01 August 2012 - 01:22 PM, said:

like Preview takes at least 3 time longer than Acrcobat does at least with my system,

Something is seriously wrong. Do an archive and install.

[teflon]

Lion's Preview and TextEdit are both completely borked. Mountain Lion's seem to be better, though. Certainly the way the would open then instantly quit has been solved.

[mindnoise]

Hansi, on 01 August 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

Something is seriously wrong. Do an archive and install.

it's wrong since I installed that POS of an OS (Lion)!

First I could not install a working OS (after cloning my 10.6 install externally), I had to security wipe my internal HD so that it would install at all - THEN it shot my 10.6.8 backup on an external HD rendering it unbootable. Seems there was a big problem with 'updating' the recovery HD from 10.6.
  

Fortunately it never touched my personal data.

[The Liberator]

Well, it's been fifty days since release, what does everyone think? I suppose all of the bugs and whatnot have been ironed out and it now safe to update?

I'm mainly doing this upgrade so iCloud works again. I did have Lion installed for a bit a few months back, but I really didn't like it and reverted to SL. Is there any reason to not upgrade to ML?

Lib.

[Janichsan]

The Liberator, on 15 September 2012 - 08:55 AM, said:

Well, it's been fifty days since release, what does everyone think? I suppose all of the bugs and whatnot have been ironed out and it now safe to update?

I'm mainly doing this upgrade so iCloud works again. I did have Lion installed for a bit a few months back, but I really didn't like it and reverted to SL. Is there any reason to not upgrade to ML?

There are quite a few minor bugs, but nothing really deal breaking for me. So far, Mountain Lion is mostly stable and compatible. And the small improvements compared to Lion are really worth it. Anyway, if you want to run ML on a MacBook, it would be smarter to wait for 10.8.2 — the battery lifetime really suffers with 10.8.0 and 10.8.1.

[The Liberator]

Janichsan, on 15 September 2012 - 09:14 AM, said:

There are quite a few minor bugs, but nothing really deal breaking for me. So far, Mountain Lion is mostly stable and compatible. And the small improvements compared to Lion are really worth it. Anyway, if you want to run ML on a MacBook, it would be smarter to wait for 10.8.2 — the battery lifetime really suffers with 10.8.0 and 10.8.1.

Okay thanks, good to know. I was just going to acquire the OS for the iMac below, with (what is looking like to be) my first iPhone.

Lib.

[Thain Esh Kelch]

If you're running Lion, definitely upgrade. On SL, maybe, maybe not.