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Apple Already Working on Mac OS X 10.7 Development?
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Please give me an option not to have unified menus!! When I have two apps side by side I want to go back and forth between them without remembering 1000 key strokes or constantly clicking in on focus. Unified menus especially suck on large 30 inch monitors. After using macs for 4 years, this is my biggest issue with them. How hard would it be to attach a menu to top of each app instead of the top bar?
This would be news if Apple *wasn't* working on 10.7. I find it interesting that they're still so early in the process. Apparently they don't do overlapping development.
In most really big developments, the next major release is started as soon as the previous one hits feature freeze.
In most really big developments, the next major release is started as soon as the previous one hits feature freeze.
I don't believe there will be anymore QT 7 updates so that's not a problem.
The good news it there is a way and I've already done it.
If you try to delete QT X from your computer, it will keep popping up because off an application called "QuickTime Launcher.app"
The strange part is "QuickTime Launcher" is part of QT 7 not QT X.
The first thing you've got to do is delete "QuickTime Launcher."
It is actually inside the QT 7 application so you delete it by:
1. Right click the QT 7 app and select Show Package Contents.
2. Next open contents/Resources/Quicktime Launcher.app.
3. Delete the app (you will need admin privileges)
4. Log out and back in and you will have no more problems with the launcher app.
Then finally delete QT X.
I assume you know how to use "Get Info" to change all the associations back to QT 7.
I can already answer a few just to make the speculation less exciting:
1. Marble interface or Aqua >> Very probably a new interface, Marble or whatever they wanna call it
2. iTunes going Cocoa? >> That isn't OS dependent, iTunes gets released separately from OS X
3. Filesystem >> Not a very exciting topic
4. Touch enabled >> Probably more multi touch
5. Resolution independence >> I'm not sure what that is
6. Serial number/activation coming? >> Very probably not, if it has worked this way so far, then they won't change the system
7. What will it be called >> Uhm... Polar Bear?
8. When will it ship and how many delays? >> It's too early to know, but probably like always
9. Will it run iPhone apps natively? >> No, that would hurt iPhone sales + you would need a touchscreen computer which doesn't seem to be the case so far
10. Minium specifications? Will run on any Intel Mac
11. Can pressing the green button finally make the screen fully maximize. >> Probably not
12. How much will it cost? >> The same as always, except for Snow Leopard. This is a major OS, so unlike Snow Leopard, it will cost whatever previous OSs have costed I think.
This is the way OS X works. Windows is a Window-centric system while OS X is an App-centric one. This means that Windows make it look like each App is a window, while OS X makes it look like each window is part of an invisible App. If the menu bar wasn't unified, each window of an App would have to have a menu bar, adding clutter.
I think OS X will stay App-centric, which means that they have to have ONE menu bar for the entire App, as the menu bar represents the App itself, and the windows are just sub-units of the app. This reduces clutter too.
I'm still hoping for LOLCat, and for iLife to have a new app called iCheezburger. I also hope OSX makes it to version 10.10, so they can call it 10^2 (OS Ten Squared).
Wow, I am such a nerd. Sometimes I surprise myself.
Sure it was (even in the original Leopard Overview) and was speculated about even before that:
http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/
Not in marketing speak.
Hmm...1010. I guess it would still be just OS X. (Think binary)
Am I the only one out there who would like to see windows finally get the ability to be resized from ANY PLACE, not just the bottom right-hand corner?!?
I also expect (or at least strongly hope) 10.7 to be fully 64bit top to bottom.
The finder icon in the dock looks dorky, they really need to come up with something more visually appealing.
I also expect (or at least strongly hope) 10.7 to be fully 64bit top to bottom.
The finder icon in the dock looks dorky, they really need to come up with something more visually appealing.
i guess i skip snow leopard then....
no seriously i tried snow leopard and didn't see any difference in speed or UI thaty were significant enough for me to go through the update trouble. the only reason to go to snow leopard would be to do a fresh install from scratch and to clean out my HD from programs and stuff i never use anymore.
i hope we finally get resolution independence.
no seriously i tried snow leopard and didn't see any difference in speed or UI thaty were significant enough for me to go through the update trouble. the only reason to go to snow leopard would be to do a fresh install from scratch and to clean out my HD from programs and stuff i never use anymore.
i hope we finally get resolution independence.
Actually the 1st gen Intel Macs are left out of almost as much of 10.6 as the PPC Users have been. I'm including my 1st gen Intel Mac Pro that much of 10.6 does not apply to. But this is really just typical Steve Jobs.
X is part of the brand name, and Apple's spent a lot of money promoting that brand. I don't see it being dropped any time in the near future.
The cat thing, on the other hand, jeez how far can they take that?
Maybe they can come up with a consistent interface for once? Nah, that's to much to expect, I'm sure they just add a new one to the already existing half dozen....
Great news!
My wife's Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver) came with the OS X Cheetah back in 2001 and it is amazing how the software has evolved...actually its been quite amazing to witness the Mac platform soar.
My wife's Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver) came with the OS X Cheetah back in 2001 and it is amazing how the software has evolved...actually its been quite amazing to witness the Mac platform soar.
Speaking of the OS9 transition to OSX is anyone really anxious to see what Apple is going to have in store after OSX is over? With new OS releases approximately every two years from Apple i'm assuming it's going to be in the time frame of 2015 (that's if the world doesn't end in 2012
I think the best choice would be to make the next upgrade a severe one, with lots of new features and a new GUI and name it "Lion" (a big new cat) and "Mac OS X 11", syncing Mac OS X' pseudo version number with the kernel version number (10.x for Snow Leopard, 9.x for Leopard).
That would solve the uname problem (uname command reports different version number the the Finder does) and the naming problem.