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Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 2
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Geez people. Just use Disk Utility to create a second partition on your internal drive, then put the test OS on it. When you're finished with it, and/or they come out with a stable enough version for your production drive, just erase the test partition and bring it back into the fold. Pretty simple stuff.
Labels as color tints used to be in some classic Mac OS version, I think. It's something they should go back to.
What happens to customized icons when this version is installed? Does the update leave them as they are? I have quite a few. I'm way more visual. Which is why Microsoft's design motif sucks for me. And now Apple has been going the same exact direction, eliminating "useless" things like button bevels in order to leave bare text and < in place of them. That's very Microsoft.
I think there's an issue with 24 hour time. There's two settings one in date & time, and another in language & region. They must be conflicting because if I enable one, or both, I get a blank time in the menubar. I have to stick with 12 hour time for now.
When will they give iOS a dark theme? Or even icons and buttons with distinctiveness and readability?
- Time Machine: Time Machine has a redesigned interface that removes the stars.
My God, its (not) full of stars!
Good one, but continuing the visuals that look like they were developed by 6th-graders the notifications still turn into a puff of smoke when you dismiss them.
I turned on 24-hour time checkbutton, but in the Time preferences I couldn't change the hour pulldown item (in the short, long, etc. settings) to "00-23". It just stayed "7". And, yup, the time on the menu bar is blank. That's an odd one.
DP2 on my 2012 15" MacBook Pro with Retina display, and iOS 8 Beta 2 on my iPhone 5s---
-Handoff is now working between the two.
-Calls placed within Yosemite ring on the other end, but if the recipient picks up, nothing happens, it just disappears from my screen and the call ends.
-No SMS from iMessage.
-Generally more smooth but still getting pretty low FPS on Mission Control.
-Handoff is now working between the two.
-Calls placed within Yosemite ring on the other end, but if the recipient picks up, nothing happens, it just disappears from my screen and the call ends.
-No SMS from iMessage.
-Generally more smooth but still getting pretty low FPS on Mission Control.
They've evidently done some work on Safari too - I'm no longer getting issues where, for example, Facebook scrolls down the page while you're typing in chat.
Dude, if you're looking for stability & non-headaches - don't install & rely on a major OS update (Yosemite) on release, as your day to day OS. Especially one with as much change as we're seeing in Yosemite.
Go for update after 4 months or so, so everyone else can experience and identify all the unintended bugs waiting (as well as application support catching up to the new OS release) and Apple has time to fix the biggies they didn't know about. Frankly a year isn't enough time for Apple to debug these OS releases. JMHO...
Why are they dropping details and reducing contrast? How do colored circles have a better context for reminder / to do lists than check marks? How is "3D" on an icon better than a compass? It's a map app. Not a 3D app. 3D is just a feature, not a primary function. The loupe on the preview app now looks like a mug of quicksilver coffee, rather than a loupe. And how is the PhotoBooth icon an improvement upon visual meaning by eliminating the booth??
Seriously, the visual design at Apple is going backwards.
they were gone for me too, but it can be repaired easily.
open up activity monitor, look for "notification center" process, then kill it. it will automatically restart, and the magic happens
I prefer this lighter grey to the darker one used for all the other title bars.