iCal in Leopard needs some streamlining
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Mar 25, 2008 at 5:55am
I know a lot of folks who don’t find the Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) version of iCal an improvement over the 10.4 (“Tiger”) version because of the extra clicks needed to enter an event or to, for example, correct an entry. In fact, a lot of folks consider it a downgrade of the product.
When you want to add an event to the monthly view in iCal, either by double clicking on the day (or cmd+n), you get a small bar the color of the calendar and the ability to title the event. You give it a name, then press enter. The event gets a default time and duration—but it’s often not what you intended. To change it you have to double click and open the Edit event window.
Previously, you could do this with iCal on the first double click as the details were available for editing from the start. Making users have to take another step with Leopard iCal to edit and event is an unnecessary stop. Evolutions of iCal should see it more streamlined, not less.
Hopefully, Apple will fix this in an upcoming Leopard update. It’s just too bad it didn’t happen with 10.5.2, which resolved many other user complaints. (Thanks for Macsimum News Steve Self for help with today’s column.)
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
