What's Wrong With OS X

I'm going to maintain this as a repository of things I know about that are, in my opinion, wrong or broken about OS X.

Initial List: July 29, 2002 (additions will be dated):

Maybe it really is just slow?

I've noted before that there are some maddening things about OS X such as windows that take many seconds to close, scroll bars that don't activate when clicked, and similar things. A couple of my colleagues have indicated that these are not "bugs" per se, but rather artifacts of an OS whose screen refresh code is sluggish. They say I should expect those problems to go away (largely at least) with 10.2.

UI "Oversights"

1. Why can't you type the first character of a file name in the column view and jump to the first file with that name? I miss that feature a lot.
2. Why can't you open multiple "Get Info" windows in the Finder? You always could before. Now it's harder to compare two files to determine which to use.
3. Why don't applications remember where they got a document? They seem only to be able to remember the last directory they worked in. Seems to me in Classic, there was a setting for this but I haven't found it yet.

Office:X Issues?

Some of these are Office:X only and others seem more pervasive. Still investigating.

1. When Word:X opens a document in a case where a document is already open, the newly opened document appears in a window behind the current document. Stupid.
2. Worse yet, selecting the name of the newly opened document does not reveal it. You have to minimize or close the front document to get at the newly opened one. Doubly stupid.

Last update: 11/13/02; 2:12:40 PM.