Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 5

[zunairryk]

Still laggy animations in Mission Control

 

[tuartboy]

New Safari preference to show full web address:

So glad to hear this. My radar was marked "will not fix" so I had lost all hope. Function finally triumphed over form.

 

[DryHeave]

Why does the light bulb in the Energy Saver icon look like it's wearing a girdle?

What type of light bulb is that supposed to be, anyway? What kind of light bulb glows yellow anymore? Come on, Apple! :/

 

[kmkjams]

Does this beta allow us to send Text Messages? For some reason Beta 4 didn't let me.

It was enabled in DP4 or earlier. You NEED to also be running iOS8 in order to get everything all activated. I believe handoff is needed to get this to work.

 

[cmaier]

I'm hoping they fix the issues with BluRay ripping and trancoding. None of my BluRay rippers like MakeMKV work and some of my trancoders like Elgato turbo.264HD do not work in DP1-4.

DP5 has new volume and brightness HUDs, and they look terrible!

EDIT: Added Dark Mode screenshot

Agreed. Terrible. Blends in completely on gray windows, too. Also, changing volume doesn't make little "bleep" sounds (for me at least) anymore, so no idea how loud or soft i'm actually making it.

 

[jafingi]

To use continuity. I do a lot of graphics design and it'll a huge feature that I can just drop off the graphics directly to the iPhone/iPad instead of going through Dropbox and the like

Use Skala Preview.

Real-time view of your Photoshop document on your iPad or iPhone ;-)

 

[cmaier]

Make sure your Output Balance is in "middle"

Turn on " play feedback sound" under sound effects.

Ah, thanks.

But man, what an ugly sound the "feedback sound" is. Yuck.

 

[jordanbrown]

New brightness and volume UI

New brightness and volume UI

 

[AZhappyjack]

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[SMIDG3T]

How do I enable Handoff?

I've ticked the box in Settings on Yosemite and it's enabled on my iPhone too.

I've sent a text message to myself as a test but it didn't appear on my Mac.

 

[goobot]

Ew, they added the iOS 7 volume HUD

 

[smartalic34]

Why does the light bulb in the Energy Saver icon look like it's wearing a girdle?

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What type of light bulb is that supposed to be, anyway? What kind of light bulb glows yellow anymore? Come on, Apple! :/

That's an LED lightbulb

The earliest OS X versions used an incandescent bulb, I believe, and the most recent releases used a CFL bulb for the icon, so Apple is just keeping up with the latest in lighting tech

 

[zudy]

Why does the light bulb in the Energy Saver icon look like it's wearing a girdle?

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What type of light bulb is that supposed to be, anyway? What kind of light bulb glows yellow anymore? Come on, Apple! :/

Wow if that is what bothers you then that says a a lot, you probably think your ice cream is too cold too right.

 

[smartalic34]

New brightness and volume UI

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I love the design of Yosemite, but that is downright ugly. If they're trying to make it analogous to iOS 7, they could make that white outline a little more subtle...

 

[attila]

System Preferences has an improved look:

"improved"

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Apple needs to add the transparency effect. As it is, it obscures whatever is sitting behind it - inconsistent with the rest of the transparency stuff.

No, there is already too much transparency - if you have two things on top of each other you just get a mess now!

 

[xdexina]

I guess, the best thing to do is file a bug report with apple at this stage.

i've sorted out. In my cause it was because of a stupid new app, lights out, which was suppose to alternate (like flux) over the day with light and dark theme. The stupid app never worked, I deleted, but somehow the deamon continued to work... Ive re-installed the app, killed the deamon (which is something started by light...), removed the app from the preferences pane, restarted and voila! it's sorted out

thanks anyway

 

[tywebb13]

There's a new redeem code on the Dev portal so dev's can download the whole installation to do a fresh install.

Indeed.

I posted instructions for making a bootable usb installer for DP5 here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1761645/

 

[Taipan]

I don't get it. The volume and brightness overlays (!) are pretty much the only place where transparency makes sense, and there they have none? Or is it just not visible in the screenshot?

 

[AZhappyjack]

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[3282868]

For the first time, custom sounds from ~/Library/Sounds folder show in "System Preferences" (must be .wav format). That's never happened before (use that for Mail and other core app sounds mod's).

Opening files in various app's is finally quick(er).

EDIT: Apparently this is not new, but for some reason after many years working/developing in OS X, it's new for me, so, go me! lol

 

[fcousa]

Where is HANDOFF in mac mini 2011?

 

[cocky jeremy]

Safari is extremely fast for me

Jealous then. It's been horrible for me. In DP4 anyway. It was less stable (not crashing, but buggy), but far faster pre-DP4.

 

[justperry]

For the first time, custom sounds from ~/Library/Sounds folder show in "System Preferences" (must be .wav format). That's never happened before (use that for Mail and other core app sounds mod's).

Opening files in various app's is finally quick(er).

Are you sure, think I had this since.... what forever

 

[n-evo]

For the first time, custom sounds from ~/Library/Sounds folder show in "System Preferences" (must be .wav format). That's never happened before (use that for Mail and other core app sounds mod's).

I've been placing custom system sounds to /Library/Sounds instead and they've always showed up in System Preferences. Mine are in AIFF format.

 

[SMIDG3T]

Where is HANDOFF in mac mini 2011?

I believe Handoff is broken