Apple Releases OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 6

[jrlcopy]

You can choose whether you want it to be like in Mountain Lion, or the new way.
You can choose if you want multiple monitors to be one desktop so you can have apps span across multiple monitors, or you can choose that every display hase it's own monitor, so you can change spaces independently on each monitor.

Just go to System preference > Mission control and uncheck the "Displays have separate Spaces"

Thanks for this. Wasn't aware that checkbox existed.

 

[phoenixsan]

Just being safe....

in a site of rumors: Nobody knows or had heard a rumor about the possible date for the release of Mavericks....Or better, anyone in guess mode...? (informed ones, hunches or wild guesses allowed......)

And yes, maybe I am overstepping in things said in another threads....forgive me.....

 

[alainking]

AirPlay and Keyboard Backlight

I have the airplay issue mentioned by many others.

Last night, I turned my keyboard backlight all the way down and have been unable to turn it back up since, anyone else experiencing similar issues. It worked fine on DP5 but not on 6

It is on 2011 MacBook Air.

 

[milo]

OS X Mavericks isn't ready for prime time yet and shouldn't be used on production machines or in other situations where you have to rely on a stable system.

As is the case with any beta software. Particularly betas of a major update to an OS.

 

[3282868]

- Burn option under Share menu is gone

Well that burns me (couldn't resist)

Seriously though, Apple really, really wants to drive that last nail in the ODD coffin. Not smart, a lot of people need it. This rings more true for film, ODD/Blu-Ray media, especially high-def film. Passing 1TB USB drives to clients or cloud/sharing doesn't cut it.

Until the "pipe" can support high def file sharing (with improved codecs), dismissing ODD is too soon.

 

[jnasato]

Tabbed browsing and other efficiency enhancers have existed for many years from third parties, so I'm happy to see Apple finally implement them. That being said, Mac OS X has been pretty solid in recent incarnations for the past several years, but newer trends seem to be going towards abstraction and minimalism. Mac OS X has generally had an upper-hand with regards to intuitive usability, but I do fear the "future" trend of such abstraction will lead to a lack of intuitive usage, as well as further hiding of usable features.

But I suppose that is the flow and nature of maturation of user interface. One has to eventually keep up with the unspoken rules of user interface (such as decades ago, needing to understand "new concepts" such as double-click and point-and-click, etc.), sooo I suppose I am not really complaining. But the nature of human boredom is quite sad, in that the most efficient and usable UI- if ever conceived and implemented- will ultimately have to be replaced due to users feeling their system is aging, if OS remained relatively unchanged.

So here's to the idealistic Mac OS-- may I use you in the future that will never come.

 

[tekboi]

How much has the Maps App improved any since the first beta?

 

[mattburley7]

how many more developer previews do you think we have left before the GM version?

 

[MikhailT]

how many more developer previews do you think we have left before the GM version?

I'm hoping 2-3 more, one next week and two more to cover the month of Sept. Early Oct sees the GM build and the public release sometime in mid Oct with Mac Pro/updated MBPs/iPads.

 

[bingeciren]

Because you have nothing better to do that sit around and watch the free space on your disk? Honestly, I don't understand why that's an issue. There are lots of ways to see the free space on your drives.

No need to reveal your ignorance and unfriendly attitude. What makes you say that i have nothing better to do to sit around and whatch my disk space?

First of all I do developing and use various disks and/or partitions to test and preview OS releases. Usually I allocate a partition on my disk, no larger than what is absolutely necessary. As a result I keep a close eye on how a particular OS or a program uses disk space as well as keeping an eye on how much space is left on a particular partition or an external disk. Obviously there are many other ways to keep track of disk space and everybody has their preferences. I use the activity monitor because it is always on and active on my system.

Besides, the primary issue is not the disk space, but the reduction of the functionality or a feature of the activity monitor compared to the previous version.

Next time if you are not going to make a constructive statement and can't be polite, please don't even bother to write.

 

[RichardI]

Safari is still the best working browser on OS X. Printer drivers haven't been an issue for me so far, and for mouse acceleration, you gotta pay up and buy Steermouse.

Chrome is better.
I own a supplemental mouse controller - I just think I should not need to....