[X4U] Missing Mountain Lion Mail Spinning Wheels Feedback to Apple

[Paul Moortgat]

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Paul Moortgat

On 03 Aug 2012, at 04:43, Jim Scott wrote:

> Apple removed the "task in progress" spinning wheels in Mountain Lion, with no way to bring them back. This high-handed approach is not customer friendly, and I told Apple so in this message via their Feedback page:
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> "I've become accustomed to and depend on the little spinning wheels beside each of my OS X Mail e-mail accounts that tell me that each account is being checked for new mail. The spinning wheels tell me that the mail server(s) are online, that they're being checked for new mail, and that Mail is not only working, but also is working correctly. 
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> "They increase my efficiency because I don't have to stop and wait, and click on Get Mail again, and turn up the volume to hear the "task completed" sound, as Mountain Lion Mail forces me to do. 
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> "Those spinning wheels or 'task in progress icons' let me do other things while the servers are being polled. Suddenly, this very helpful feature, which still exists in the Mail program in my numerous iOS 5 devices, has been removed in Mountain Lion. Why? Because those spinning wheels eat up too many system resources? If so, why don't you get rid of the blue progress bar that tells me a web page is loading in Safari? Or get rid of the spinning wheel as the OS is booting? 
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> "Apple brags about how it is a user-friendly company. Explain to me how taking away the equivalent of Safari's progress bar in Mail is user-friendly. Stupid, stupid move, which I fear you're planning to make in iOS 6 since iOS seems to be the tail wagging Apple's cats these days. :^("
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> If you feel as I do, send Apple a message at: <http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html>
> 
> -- Jim Scott
> Eureka, CA