Leopard Complaints

I watched the guided tour and I have some complaints about Apple’s new OS already. Minor annoyances, to be sure, but I expect Apple to pay attention to such details.

  1. The look and feel is closer, but still not completely consistent: Preview and Mail don’t have the same kind of toolbar buttons as Address Book, Safari, and Finder.
  2. Some windows (the opening progress bar, time machine hard drive insert dialog box) don’t have a unified sunken interface. I guess I’ll be keeping UNO around after all.
  3. Some windows show toolbar names and icons, while others only show icons. That’s still an application preference, not a global one.
  4. Scroll bars look like candy and haven’t been updated to the iTunes 7, which would be more appropriate.
  5. Cover Flow scroll bars don’t conform to the system scroll bar preference.

Update: Walt has delivered his verdict: “Not revolutionary, but it beats Vista.” (via PC World)