I am wondering why, "Cover Flow," wasn't included.

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I ran out of room? :)

Pick "New Finder", though, and you'll include Cover Flow.

-rob.

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If that's the case, then when you combine Quick Look with new Finder (my choice in the poll), then the new Finder is winning ;-)

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Built in Ruby on Rails Deveolpment is the biggest Feature for me. About GUI Enhancments (Tranlucent Menubar, Stacks, Dock, ...) im not sure is this a bug or a feature.

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I love them! Anyone who doesn't is probably just a hippy. :)

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I hate Stacks the most because I cannot navigate 2 or more levels deep in stacks as I could with the traditional folder/right click in the dock as before. So to sum it up, my hate for stacks is in 2 parts:

1) Not being able to navigate 2 or more levels deep via Stacks
2) Removing the classic functionality of this as was in 10.4

It doesn't happen too often when Apple removes such largely used features during an OS update. To tell you the truth, I do like Stacks for certain scenarios, but for the most part, Stacks has DECREASED my productivity! My only hope is Apple will provide some minimal update to combat all these upset users!

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I don't know what's with all the stacks haters. I guess I just don't understand the appeal of the hierarchical menus everyone seems to miss. They always seemed like kind of an awkward to navigate the file system (one bump of the mouse and you're back to square one).

The "Downloads" folder is the perfect example of what stacks were meant to be; a temporary holding place for files that you need quick access to. Back before multitasking, it made sense to use the desktop for that, but these days we need something that's accessible even when there are other windows open.

Maybe the solution is for Apple to add a "View As... > Menu" option for folks who like the old functionality.

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Two things:

1) Put a stack of your Applications folder in the Dock. It's icon is the Address Book icon. How is this helpful?

2) My big complaint is that they didn't include some sort of option for accessing the old behavior. It's bad form to remove a feature unnecessarily, imho... Especially one that so many of us used! Steve doesn't use it, so it can go? Like I said, really just bad form...

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I hate stacks too. For me it's nothing but an incredibly slow way to access files and folders.

If by the "old behavior" you mean opening a folder when its clicked in the dock, do this:

- toss your dock stacks
- make aliases to whichever folders you want
- drag those to the dock
- toss the aliases

Now, clicking on the folders in the dock will open them rather than stack them

- mcgoogles

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It was a real tie for Spaces and Quicklook for me... Spaces won out. As a unix sysadmin it is nice to have this functionality back. I used to use multiple desktops all the time on X-Windows systems, and I never really found the current Mac OSX 3rd party Virtual Desktops apps very satisfying.

Quicklook = just hit space, gotta love it.

But what really made me go WOW was the translucent menus (no NOT the menu bar, the menus). Damn, that's beautiful. Translucent, yet blurs out the lower layer enough so it doesn't interfere. Just stunning!

Oh, and if I ever get back to my mac working, or when I get a chance to try sharing with mom, that will probably rank highly.

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that's funny, the blurring is the thing I absolutely hate the most about Leopard.
First you put a strain on the system by making something transparent, than you remove the only conceivable function of said transparency, namely to be able to distinguish what's underneath.
The blurry mess takes away from the cleanness of the interface as well, imo. (And the fact that they stole this idea straight from Vista doesn't help either)


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Back to my mac and the other vast improvements in network share connectivity. Loving you work on that Apple. (Hating your work on Stacks)

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Love it, since it now runs FAST (and that's on a G4 mini with the slower-than-typing-zeroes-and-ones-yourself internal harddrive), but I really liked the separate result window that's gone missing now. It's a regular finder window now, and while that does have it's advantages, it feels like something's missing.

Overall, I really like Leopard.

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I like that we have one OS that is 64 bit but is able to run 32 bit code at the same time. ppc + x86 + 32bit + 64bit = One install DVD. Breaks into Clerks 2 hobbit geek impersonation.... One Install DVD to install to them, One install DVD to bind them. I'm so impressed I might start wearing a Leopard install disc on a chain around my neck and refer to it as "My Precious". :-)

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