Ah, that would be nice. The mouse clicking to changes spaces thing. Can someone phone Apple on that one? Or would it be all that hard to write a plug-in that does it? That would definitely be worth someone's time...

As for the semi-translucent shelf, I really like it myself. I like how I can see my pictures showing through it. I even set my pictures to rotate just so that when my screen is entirely full of different programs, I can watch the menu bar shift colors ;).

Ahh, but the point is, Apple changing what works for many, rather than adding a new feature that can be chosen by folk of your opinion. This reflects the "love it or lump it" attitude that Apple has come to garner on their users. There are several, for example, that love the new iMovie 08. But there is a firestorm of hatred for Apple dropping support for iMovie HD. Apple should never replace features, but rather add functionality with the ability to revert back. For the Dock, this would not be, in any way, a fear of bloatware--it is a minor amount of code.

This does not address the bug described. Read my Folder 1, Folder 2 example and recreate the bug yourself. That will make it clear.

I have to agree here I find Stacks totally usable for my needs but other people I work with prefer the old way of doing things I never bothered having folders in my doc.
I agree that you should be able to enable stacks for a particular folder on the doc on a adhoc basis. so you can have say 3 folders on your doc and only have 1 enabled as a stacks folder for instance. Oh and me personally I preferred iMovie HD but I have not realy done anything with the new iMovie yet.

you know what, most of us (including me) we're complaining how 10.5 wasnt substantial enough for a new os, but i think we've forgotten about a universal 32 and 64bit OS, and how core animation is going to open up the os, to dx10 like games and apps both of which are major upgrades which i think we're forgetting about

Actually, I have been very pleased with "what I don't see". A Finder speed improvement is enough for me to upgrade. The little nits and nats of things we do not like is just worth ranting over, and will probably be dealt with by Apple or a third-party application. But on the whole, it is a good (not great) update, and worth getting used to the changes. I'm still getting used to Spaces, and so far, I like what I am seeing. Quicklook makes me wonder how I ever lived without it. And I am quickly getting used to the new iTunes window look.

I'm just glad to see that most of my main apps are working. The only glitches have been iKey and my Brother TWAIN scanner import. Thankfully, Brother had an update download, and iKey may see an update soon with the possibility of a temporary fix.

This is really more of a second impression, but I thought it would be weird to start a new thread for this.

I've decided that the new SpotLight can role over and die for all I care. I don't like it that much at all. First off, it won't find preference files for some reason. Second off, I can't get it to search specific folders (I have hope that I'm just missing something so far). And lastly, I don't like the new view. I liked having all of my searches broken down into easily distinguished categories. Now all I get is a giant list of files...it's annoying to me.

Oh well, I did change it to icon view, which helps a bit...but I still feel disoriented whenever I look at it, and I miss all the control I had over meta-data searching... It's not the end of the world, but it sure stinks. I know we've been talking about removing functionality and replacing it with something else, and I'm all for that in most cases, but I'm not sure I like the concept of removing functionality, not replacing it, and hoping no one notices it.

Oh well, here's hoping 10.5.1 fixes this.

Edit: Fortunately, part of this is wrong. You can search in specific folders, my computer was just being a bit weird is all. No idea why...

Actually, quite a bit of what you were mentioning seems foreign to me. It is acting like the same Spotlight for me as Tiger, only now I can put exact phrases with quotes and boolean searches. Something seems to be up with your system, I think. Perhaps a rebuild of your index file is in order?

There is still one annoyance that still remains. For some reason, when I have a window open, and I press command-F, Spotlight will go, "Duh, you want me to soich de entire compooter?" Thereby having to click on the actual folder I am in. This may only be a phenomena on my home computer, because it does not do this at work. I have the exact same computer, only it is running Tiger. Hmmm.

What I mean is that when you open up spotlight from it's little menulet, then click "show all", the menu you are given is completely different. That's what I'm referring to.

At the moment I'm fairly split on Leopard. I love some of the new changes like QuickLook, the AutoFS config format change, Spaces.

But I'm downright angry about the broken implementation of the folder actions in Leopard. All this talk about the use of the fsevents framework for folder actions and not having Finder handle it. You know what it worked great in Tiger why did they have to break it? Random delays, actions spawning again moments later after the first ones have finished. It is a complete failure on my machine. I paid full price for this upgrade and one of my favorite features is completely hosed.

Honestly I don't do anything that crazy to my mac under the hood and I don't really have any way to muck up the upgrade so I see absolutely no excuse for the fact that Folder Actions don't work correctly any more.