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A Spotlight change that really irks me: I have to tap Enter before I can look at the results preview. Why would you actively degrade usability?

by xrisk 6y ago

Nextgrid 6y ago
That absolutely broke the use case of Spotlight as a quick, always-on calculator or unit converter. Absolutely infuriating.
- jen20 6y ago
  This rung _so_ untrue that I just went and tested it on three different macs running various combinations of Big Sur beta and shipped, since I use Alfred and disable Spotlight's UI. And predictably, it's simply not true. If you open the spotlight window and type "5+5", 10 appears immediately as the first result line. If you type "85lbs in kg" the first line immediately reveals it to be 38.56kg. In fact, I didn't even need to type the "in kg", since it did that by default. So what precise regression are you talking about here?
  - xrisk 6y ago
    It doesn’t show up on the right pane in a split (as it used to pre-Big Sur) This difference is more noticeable when I’m looking up a word in the dictionary, looking up a contact etc, or searching for an email/file. Why do I have to press another key?!
    - jen20 6y ago
      This part is understandable - I was replying directly to the use case of being broken as a calculator or unit converter.
- FabHK 6y ago
  Pet peeve about using spotlight as a currency converter btw: It can do popular currencies ("100 EUR in USD", CAD, JPY, GBP) and some minor ones (HKD, THB, SEK, NOK, HRK), but try lesser known ones (GEL, COP, PHP, KES), and it doesn't work. Wonder where that list resides, and whether one could extend it.
72deluxe 6y ago
They broke quicklook with Mojave too. You used to be able to press spacebar to get a preview of a file, then press shift and move to the previous file in a finder list, highlighting both of them but showing you a preview of the most recent item. That way, you could work through a list of files deciding which ones to delete or move to another folder whilst previewing them. In Mojave they broke this and it only ever displayed the first item, making quicklook now incredibly useless for me. I sometimes wonder if they ever test anything.

A Spotlight change that really irks me: I have to tap Enter before I can look at the results preview. Why would you actively degrade usability?

by xrisk 6y ago

A Spotlight change that really irks me: I have to tap Enter before I can look at the results preview. Why would you actively degrade usability?

Nextgrid 6y ago

That absolutely broke the use case of Spotlight as a quick, always-on calculator or unit converter. Absolutely infuriating.

jen20 6y ago
This rung _so_ untrue that I just went and tested it on three different macs running various combinations of Big Sur beta and shipped, since I use Alfred and disable Spotlight's UI. And predictably, it's simply not true. If you open the spotlight window and type "5+5", 10 appears immediately as the first result line. If you type "85lbs in kg" the first line immediately reveals it to be 38.56kg. In fact, I didn't even need to type the "in kg", since it did that by default. So what precise regression are you talking about here?
- xrisk 6y ago
  It doesn’t show up on the right pane in a split (as it used to pre-Big Sur) This difference is more noticeable when I’m looking up a word in the dictionary, looking up a contact etc, or searching for an email/file. Why do I have to press another key?!
  - jen20 6y ago
    This part is understandable - I was replying directly to the use case of being broken as a calculator or unit converter.
FabHK 6y ago
Pet peeve about using spotlight as a currency converter btw: It can do popular currencies ("100 EUR in USD", CAD, JPY, GBP) and some minor ones (HKD, THB, SEK, NOK, HRK), but try lesser known ones (GEL, COP, PHP, KES), and it doesn't work. Wonder where that list resides, and whether one could extend it.

72deluxe 6y ago

They broke quicklook with Mojave too. You used to be able to press spacebar to get a preview of a file, then press shift and move to the previous file in a finder list, highlighting both of them but showing you a preview of the most recent item. That way, you could work through a list of files deciding which ones to delete or move to another folder whilst previewing them. In Mojave they broke this and it only ever displayed the first item, making quicklook now incredibly useless for me. I sometimes wonder if they ever test anything.