Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 6

[abcdefg12345]

was that there before

 

[rdlink]

Sadly, not a fan of the new changes. Some of their old icons (i.e. General, light bulb, extensions) were pretty decent. Oh well, I'm over it. I probably won't notice it after today anyway.

I'm not all that picky, but I actually like the fact that the energy saver setting has a new, forward looking LED lighbulb depicted, instead of the dated CFL that will soon be left in the dust.

 

[HowieIsaacks]

Tried Mavericks and hate it. Interface makes me sick.

Makes you sick? Really? You realize that Mavericks isn't that much different from Mountain Lion, right? Did Moutain Lion make you sick too? I don't understand why people trash Apple's OS releases, and then they don't bother to mention what they don't like. Your comment is worthless unless you justify what you've said. Go back to Panther if you don't like Mavericks and Yosemite... Heck.. go back to System 7 while the rest of us move forward.

 

[oatman13]

New hard drive icons...

If they were gonna take the time to redo the icons they should at least make one for SSDs/Flash.

 

[Salty Pirate]

Oh that new battery icon makes me happy. I was PISSED when I saw Apple made it green while charging, like in iOS. I've already had my hissy fits against Dropbox and other apps that tried to put color icons in the menu bar. (Yes, I know Dropbox is better now.) It was quite an "Et tu, Apple?" moment for me.


And I'm going to assume the only thing Dark Mode does is make the dock and menu white on black. AKA no windows and stuff now white on black. Does anyone know if that's going to change? I really liked the idea of darker window elements. :c


Added:
When are they going to get rid of that? I'm tired of praying that my Mac hater friends never find out that OS X has crayons in it.

I thought the green icon was cool. sad to see it go

 

[tomtendo]

Someone's gotta get those new wallpapers for us!

 

[HowieIsaacks]

I'm not all that picky, but I actually like the fact that the energy saver setting has a new, forward looking LED lighbulb depicted, instead of the dated CFL that will soon be left in the dust.

It's the subtle things that sometimes make a difference.

 

[leman]

Check out the hideous color picker!
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Yeah, that is awful

 

[MrJesseHammond]

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was that there before

nope

 

[MacNewbie6117]

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

Hey, thanks for uploading these but there are another two you missed out!
The first five are all new to Yosemite:

Can you please upload the rest, I would be very grateful (I really want the fifth one!)

 

[PsykX]

I'm not all that picky, but I actually like the fact that the energy saver setting has a new, forward looking LED lighbulb depicted, instead of the dated CFL that will soon be left in the dust.

The LED is there since at least Mavericks.

 

[crashoverride77]

So they've totally removed all usefulness of Dashboard by blurring the background... brilliant.

Isn't this when Dashboard is it's own space. In mavericks it was some brownish background.
If you select dashboard not being it's own space does it still blur the desktop out?

 

[Atomic Wasp]

Come on Adobe… Flash settings icon looks a little out of place.

 

[PsykX]

Check out the hideous color picker!
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Good Lord gracious........ It is times like this that I wonder where Forstall is

 

[shanson27]

the pull down menu is now a bit darker

 

[HowieIsaacks]

Anyone using Parallels 9, don't download this yet. It seems to break it...

In what way? I've been testing Yosemite since the first release after WWDC, but not on a production system. I was thinking of installing some of my work software onto Yosemite to test it. I'm interested in what problem you saw with Parallels.

 

[oatman13]

Come on Adobe… Flash settings icon looks a little out of place.

Tell me about it. I've been contemplating uninstalling Flash just to get rid of that damn icon in system preferences.

 

[Casiotone]

Correct. Now instead of dark mode its a checkbox that just says: Use dark menu bar and dock

Note that there are still specific APIs in Yosemite for developers to easily implement a dark mode for UI elements inside their apps.

I guess the system wide setting they planned was causing too many problems.

 

[kmj2318]

The very first thing I noticed is how off centered the date looks. I've been using my computer all day today and haven't noticed, maybe I'm just on alert after updating. Anyone on DP5 or PB looks this strange?

 

[jordanst]

The very first thing I noticed is how off centered the date looks. I've been using my computer all day today and haven't noticed, maybe I'm just on alert after updating. Anyone on DP5 or PB looks this strange?

I noticed this right away as well

 

[ironman159]

In what way? I've been testing Yosemite since the first release after WWDC, but not on a production system. I was thinking of installing some of my work software onto Yosemite to test it. I'm interested in what problem you saw with Parallels.

This happens.

 

[aldrinjtauro]

Tell me about it. I've been contemplating uninstalling Flash just to get rid of that damn icon in system preferences.

Just right-click the icon in Prefs. and choose the "Remove Preference Pane" option. It won't uninstall Flash, and you can access Flash settings from right-clicking a Flash object on a website.

 

[blizaine]

In what way? I've been testing Yosemite since the first release after WWDC, but not on a production system. I was thinking of installing some of my work software onto Yosemite to test it. I'm interested in what problem you saw with Parallels.

It crashes upon launching P9 with Error Code 15381. All previous Yosemite DP builds have worked fine with Parallels 9. This one breaks it. Also, removing and re-install Parallels 9 doesn't fix it.

 

[oatman13]

Any idea why it was removed?

Yes. Xcode 6 B6 was removed because apple forgot to codesign the app.

 

[langscinema]

Is the Handoff toggle present in DP6 for 2011 MacBook Airs?

NOPE