Tuesday, November 15, 2011

os x 10.7

is a huge disappointment.

mission control is a mess, finder is a mess, i cannot run supermongo on it, the color scheme looks dull, iweb is gone...

fortunately they didn't abandon expose completely: by default, control+down arrow key shows all the windows just like what expose does (it's called "application windows" in system preferences). actually, this doesn't show all the windows, only for the application you are currently using... sigh

some interesting features:
-- double click an app on the dock will bring it into expose mode
-- in mission control, pick an app by moving the mouse to its group, then one finger up will slightly expand that group, allowing the desired window to be more easily selected

command+tab can also be used to switch among applications.

to sort of get rid of the horizontal lines that separate different groups in finder (when using sorting options other than "by name"): select "sort by none", then select "clean up by xxx"; this doesn't really work as "sort by xxx" as in 10.6 or before, but this is a start...