Now you know, that's what I am hating about Apple right now. From hiding the Library folder, forcing reopening of apps and docs after I restart (talking Lion here - and yes I know they FINALLY fixed that. But it only took the 6 updates), to wifi dropping on the MBAir, STILL not being able to easily change the system font, low-end accessibly features (especially when compared to Windows), control the keyboard to prevent me from "accidents" - most of what I've learned about OS' came from fixing my mistakes! And you know, maybe I WANT TO delete photo's that way.
Look it boils down too: after 20 years on mac I am getting damn tired of this recent trend to of holding my hand and telling me how to use the machine.
Every new update of OSX = less control of my desktop. Now I spend most of my time in terminal. So what's the point of having a mac? I can buy a high end pc that will also last me 5 years and do what I want.
Controlling me on the phone is one thing. On my machine is another. Now I'm running Windows on my mac. That's how pissed I am about this.
Apple needs to add a dummy switch. They can call it what they want, "Enhanced desktop experience" - whatever. But something I can check (OFF). Cause not every one who uses a mac needs his hands held.
Unhidding the library folder takes one line in terminal, you could even set up a launchd job to run it every day so that you're sure that you aren't missing it. If you spend that much time in the terminal you would have looked up how to change the problems you're having with some easy defaults commands.
Ahh no. That's what the trash bin is for. And backups.
"spend that much time in the terminal you would have looked up how to change the problems you're having with some easy defaults commands"
I know already. My point is I should not have to do type out commands with every install. A simple checkbox in preferences would be a better approach; allowing us "power users" to stay power users.
Well the file would go in the Trash, so if you pressed delete accidentally it's not a disaster. I use Presbutan so pressing delete on its own works, and pressing enter opens the file, instead of having to use Command-O.
defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool yes
Command delete works here. It makes some sense as it's not likely you'll accidentally delete one of your photos that way.
> Or, when I close all the windows for a given program (usually there is just one), the program stays open until I navigate through the menu to explicitly quit.
That's not necessarily true in Lion (through a feature called Automatic Termination which requires the app to explicitly support it). Take Preview again for example. Open a photo, close the photo and then go back to another app. Check the Dock. This actually drives me nuts as I commonly switch app context's with command-tab and having a disappearing app makes this difficult. It seems like an odd feature to me because the process actually remains alive (check Activity Monitor), it's just in a state that makes it easy to kill if resources become scarce. I have 20GB of RAM, resources very rarely become scarce so all it does is end up hiding stuff I'd rather see.