Do you know any Terminal tricks or third-party apps that can bring these three things back to Lion? First, the winding gear in the lower-right corner of a Finder window that lets me know the information is being accessed, just not visible yet. Second, the line of info at the bottom of the Finder window that tells me the number of items and disk space remaining. And third, the translucent QuickLook window, instead of solid gray.
In Mac OS X Lion, Apple took it upon themselves to automatically hide the status bar in the Finder. This status bar lets you see how many files are in a particular folder, how much space is currently being used, and also gives you the small gear that lets you know that a folder’s contents are currently being loaded. You can show this status bar by clicking View > Show Status Bar (or by pressing Command-/ on your keyboard).
The status bar isn’t actually gone in Lion—just hidden. You can unhide it from the View menu.
Getting QuickLook back to its transparent background color, however, is a different story. Currently, there is no way to change the background color, but if you need to view something over a black background instead of the polished metal background that comes standard with QuickLook, you can always enter full screen mode by clicking the small button in the upper-right corner of the QuickLook window.
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