Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 6

[SergioRP]

Larger “active” app indicators now under the apps in Yosemite beta6 dock

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does it still have the magnification effect?

 

[Advil]

i reaaaally hope they update the public beta. it's been two updates since the initial release.

 

[Watabou]

Is there any way that you can post the new wallpapers for those of us on the lame Public Beta?

And have the Dark Mode fonts been fixed for a cMBP? Currently they are HORRID on the PB,

No problem: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34865/Shares/Yosemite Wallpapers.zip

 

[dacreativeguy]

Any word on the next update to the Public Beta?

Don't hold your breath. You got your taste as promised. What incentive does Apple have to keep revving it? Sure, people give feedback, but after the easy stuff, they are likely to getting more useful feedback from Devs.

 

[aldrinjtauro]

Finally, a Do Not Disturb toggle! Unless it's always been there?

Not sure I like the smaller battery icon, though.

 

[andijames]

Finally, a Do Not Disturb toggle! Unless it's always been there?

Not sure I like the smaller battery icon, though.

Yeah this is new to me too. Not been there in previous Betas but thankfully is now back!

 

[icerabbit]

After the major iOS overhaul and some previous Yosemite screen shots, I should know better than to look at beta threads during lunch hour. Almost choked on my sandwich.

Yosemite is turning into a visual nightmare if you were 100% content with previous iterations of iOS & OS X.

I can't wait for this flat fad to be over with its oversimplified icons, narrower fonts that are harder to read, grey text on grey surfaces, white text on super bright neon colors, icons that look hazy compared to their clearly defined predecessors, ... The whole thing just looks like a draft. And this being Apple you don't get many options to fix what you don't like about the UI.

 

[dilap]

Finally, a Do Not Disturb toggle! Unless it's always been there?

Not sure I like the smaller battery icon, though.

YAY! I'd been waiting for that one. Can confirm on DP5 that a button is Non-Existent.

 

[airlied]

How about Mission Control, Stacks animations? Are they any smoother in DP6?

yeah, a lot smoother on my 15' retina mbp

 

[PowerBook-G5]

No problem: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34865/Shares/Yosemite Wallpapers.zip

Thanks mate! That second wallpaper is great!

 

[SergioRP]

Finally, a Do Not Disturb toggle! Unless it's always been there?

Not sure I like the smaller battery icon, though.

it's always been there lol, you have to scroll it up

 

[IJ Reilly]

OS X Yosemite brings a flatter, more modern look to OS X

Is "flatter" considered to be "more modern," or is "more modern" flatter?

Inquiring minds demand to know.

 

[oatman13]

A new download icon in Safari.

 

[sfwalter]

This download is particularly slow. I'm only at 250-300Kbps while I can usually max my 30Mbps connection. Apple's in-house CDN doesn't seem perfectly ready yet.

Edit: It's fast now

Yeah I'm getting 3.9 MB/sec pretty speedy.

 

[Goldfinger]

Heh, that extensions icon brings back memories. 🙂

 

[Cougarcat]

View attachment 486113 it's always been there lol, you have to scroll it up

They removed it in earlier builds of Yosemite.

 

[lancastor]

TimeMachine still not working.

 

[andijames]

Obviously not a new feature but cellular calls from FaceTime now works flawlessly for me. Never managed to quite get it to work in the past but worked straight off the bat this time 🙂

 

[spencers]

Those system prefs icons are hideous

 

[pgiguere1]

Not sure if a bug, but when in Full Screen, Safari's address bar diplays text with a light grey background. As if it was selected and disabled.

 

[bushido]

View attachment 486113 it's always been there lol, you have to scroll it up

Not on Yosemite DPs it wasn't

Also those system pref. icons are horrible and inconsistent. Some look okay and up to date and others look like they haven't seen a change since OS9.

 

[iCore24]

Size doesn't matter .. does it?

lol I mean for when I usually post pictures on forums, people somehow make theirs bigger while mine is in attached view 🙁

Is their a script to do it?

 

[leman]

New control panel/sys prefs icons.

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Uuuh, pretty! So now Startup Disk is basically the only icon which is out of line 😀

 

[Watabou]

Tab View in Safari is now super fast on a retina display. 😀

 

[JetLaw]

Unless I am loosing my mind it seems that this update removes the ability to disable the translucent menu bar. I've never liked this translucency effect so I always turn it off. It was re-enabled after installing Beta 6 and I can no longer find the option to disable it.