OK…. I did finally upgrade to Snow Leopard and mostly I’m happy with things. But, some small gripes so far.

My biggest gripe? The loss of the ability to control how desktop pictures are handled. That is, it’s now “just a picture”. There’s no more ability to tile. Long ago I collected a bunch of small tilable images (a distribution called Propaganda) and I love using those as my desktop pictures but they do require being able to tile. I can’t do that any more. *sigh*

I do not like how Activity Monitor always launches with its window visible. It did not do this in prior OS versions. I like to have the Activity Monitor always running and showing the CPU history in the Dock icon, so the app is set to launch upon login. To have it always launch and the window display is not sound. I reported this as a bug to Apple (RADAR 7158817) but they came back and said this is not a bug but is consistent with the interface guidelines (I’m curious just which guideline this is). To cope with the window? Apple says to set the app to be hidden upon launch. Of course, that then makes the Dock tile dimmed, which isn’t ideal either.

I do like that finally, after all these years, you can show the date in the menubar next to the clock. Finally.

I need to get my contextual menu plugins updated to function in Snow Leopard. Apple changed the architecture so they have to be fully rewritten. I don’t blame them for changing things, just until I get the time to rewrite them I will miss them.