Oh, right, silly me. The reason why iTunes doesn’t show a video podcast unless I select the individual podcast episode in the list is, of course, that I set the artwork/video viewer to “Selected Song” instead of “Now Playing” (because I use it to set the artwork on album tracks without opening the Get Info window).
I specifically set my iTunes preferences to open a video window when there’s video; so it totally makes sense for iTunes to assume that, if I haven’t set the artwork viewer to “Now Playing,” then I most certainly mustn’t be willing to see the video. In another window. Right?
@apple@
So far I’d resisted installing UNO (which replaces the Aqua and brushed metal window schemes with unified and dark-unified), because I’d like to avoid hacking OS X as much as possible, and because I wanted to keep a pristine, as-designed Aqua interface for as long as I could bear (since it doesn’t need to be tweaked and hacked like Windows does), but I’ve been irked by the occasional non-unified application lately (OmniWeb, I’m looking at you — yes, it so happens that the outdated Panther window style are reason enough for me not to switch browsers), and everybody’s talking about it, so I might as well give it a try.
I wish there were a bit more granularity in setting up the GUI (I’d rather it left the menubar and logon screen untouched, thanks), but I like the way it works (with no performance impact, no runtime), and I like the way it makes my system look. Some apps like System Preferences or Transmit look much greyer than they used to, but I do happen to like grey. Maybe I’m even going to switch to the graphite color scheme; it makes perfect sense in that context.
The main drawback is that Panther, unified and brushed metal windows all respond differently to mouse clicks (you can move them by clicking, respectively: the titlebar; the titlebar or toolbar; any part of the chrome); once all windows are UNO-ified, it just becomes completely unpredictable.
But that’s definitely Apple’s fault, and nobody else’s.
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