gallois' blag

I’ve installed Snow Leopard by this morning. It hasn’t been a long time, so it’s hard to tell how everything is going. This post is just for telling what it prompty shows

First things first, the installation

As we could expect, it is really simple. Push the DVD in, double-click the installation icon, click twice on continue and you’re done.

I was upset about the 55 minutes it took for upgrading, from the begining to the reboot. Anyway, after that, I got a pleasant surprise. What people was saying about 5 to 10 GB of disk space freed was far from true to me. I got a whooping 20GB! From 30GB to 50GB. A LOT more than what I expected. I believe it was so because of the huge amount of software that I have installed on my computer, and thus removing the PowerPC stuff could free a lot of space.

After I got it installed I was trying to find broken stuff. So far, the following apps were down: istat menu, mailunreadmenu, istumbler, growl and kismac. Let’s get on it:

ISTAT MENU

Installed the beta 2 over it and it’s ok now.

MAILUNREADMENU

The update didn’t work, so I removed it and reinstalled. Working fine.

ISTUMBLER

No way xD

GROWL

It says it is not working, and indeed the prefpane is broken. Anyway, the notifications are 100%, so… who cares?

KISMAC

Passive mode is ok, active is broken. Using AirPort Extreme

Another app peoplo were complaining about was Cord, for me it was working. Updated and so, no problems at all.

Now, let’s talk about the OS. Exposé is damn nice. I was affraid that cleaning up the chaos that the windows were spreaded over would ruin the fun of it. I really liked the way it was. But I really can’t complain about what has been done. Much better than expected. The tags below the windows are a nice touch (although using the meta key in Leopard had the same effect). A brilliant detail is that the minimized windows also appear in exposé, below the others. It is now easy to call them without running to the dock.

The finder preview is cool, I don’t find it that useful, but it is, to say the least, pretty. A much more appreciated feature is the wireless signal strength that is now shown in the menu bar or when you are trying to find a network. Quicktime X is clean, fast and ran pretty well here. I’m not a big fan of it, but I’ll give it a try.

As I find more stuff I’ll post here.

BTW. command+meta+eject puts your mac to sleep. Maybe I’ll unbind the quicksilver shortcut for calling the screensaver.