I like to think that there’s someone out there to address this message to, but all signs point to “no”.

Let’s look at the intersection of several features:

1. Quick Look, activated by pressing spacebar.
2. “Display as Folder” view for the Downloads folder in the Dock.
3. Keyboard event passthrough to the active application.
4. Spacebar as “mark item completed” in Reminders.
5. Auto-select next item.

Now, let’s suppose that I have recently downloaded some items to which quicklook can be applied, perhaps pictures of scantily clad young ladies. While the Reminders app is active and an item is selected, I click on the Downloads icon, bringing up thumbnail images of these downloads, which I wish to view more closely.

I do this by pressing the spacebar, once to preview an image, once to make it go away again. I repeat these keystrokes several times, examining several images. When I click the Downloads folder again, I am returned to the Reminders app, which is now empty, because I’ve just marked every single item as completed.

This behavior is not consistent between applications. It never happens with Terminal, sometimes happens with Safari, where it’s a minor nuisance, and always happens with Reminders, where it is destructive.

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