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Apple Seeds Mac OS X Leopard (9A527/9A528a)

It's not under my ADC select account, what gives? Where did you see this?

iHerzeleid said:
The Size is 6.44 GB.

Known Limitations:
- Cisco VPN does not work in this seed. If you have it installed your system may become sluggish. To correct this, remove the Cisco VPN software from the StartupItems folder and restart.
- Font validation and installation are very slow in this seed. Users should turn off validation in the Font Book preferences.
- Installation will not succeed if your system has a SCSI PCI host adapter card and a connected SCSi drive. Power down your SCSI drive before installing the seed.
- Files copied using SMB to a Windows server may become corrupt. Copies from Windows to Mac OS X Leopard or from Leopard to another Mac OS X server work correctly.
- Sometimes AFP share points mount as Read-only.
- If your installations are failing on a busy network, unload the ALF.kext from the start of the installer: 1. Choose your install language. 2. Switch from the Installer to the Terminal. 3. Type "/sbin/kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/ALF.kext". 4.Quit Terminal and continue the install.
- Performing firmware updates will result in an error dialog upon restart. Despite the warning, firmware updates will install successfully. To suppress the dialog, open the Accounts preference and manually remove the updater from your login items.
- If you choose to migrate or perform an Archive and Install over an earlier Leopard system, your user-installed applications may not be copied to the new system.
- The Parallels Desktop installer sets the wrong permissions on /. You can change them back by typing "sudo chmod 1775 / && sudo chgrp admin /"
- If you use Archive & Install to install the seed or perform a user migration you may get a dialog asking for your password for SC helper.
- Address Book Syncing does not work in the seed. It's best to turn off syncing of contacts to .Mac.
- The MP4 AAC codec (in AudioCodecs.component) - API wapper codes have been completely re-factored. Please test your AAC applications for compatibility.
- Quartz Composer based iTunes visualizers are now in the build and should be tested. You can create your own Quartz Composer developer application and install it in ~/Library Compositions.


BTW YOU CANNOT UPDATE THIS USING SW UPDATE. Have a good day.
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exigentsky said:
On the other hand, I find the dock less efficient when dealing with fewer programs. Part of this is because if I have maybe four Firefox windows open I can't directly go to the Window I want. I have to either use Expose or right click on the Firefox icon and select the correct Window. In the other OSs I can do this instantly with one click when there aren't many programs open.

Anyway, Leopard is shaping up well. I'm particularly excited about the technology like Xcode 3.0, Xray, Objective-C 2.0, Core Animation, etc. But Spaces and its other user-end features are very useful too.
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I tend to agree, but I think a logical solution would be to use tabs. :p

I would like to see tabs become a much more widespread element of the OS, myself.

As for the new lights; I like the idea. They definitely needed some brightening up. Hopefully Apple tones it down a just a little bit like they did with the menu bar. Then they would be perfect.

Also, when are we going to get a cut feature in the Finder? It's a major omission in my mind.
 
it's official, the popular opinion has ruined leopard.

apple needs to realize that there's a reason 99.99999% of the people are not designers. That menubar is like 6 steps down to previous builds.

God-damnit.
 
Yurtra said:
I tend to agree, but I think a logical solution would be to use tabs. :p

I would like to see tabs become a much more widespread element of the OS, myself.

As for the new lights; I like the idea. They definitely needed some brightening up. Hopefully Apple tones it down a just a little bit like they did with the menu bar. Then they would be perfect.

Also, when are we going to get a cut feature in the Finder? It's a major omission in my mind.
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What, are you serious? I just assumed that with the redesigned Finder in Leopard, they had to finally have a cut feature. This is something I've used for years and is far more basic than fancy features like Expose or Automator. If they don't fix this in Leopard I will be really annoyed. I even submitted it as a bug (among 70 other bugs and feature requests :p).
 
hotdamn said:
it's official, the popular opinion has ruined leopard.

apple needs to realize that there's a reason 99.99999% of the people are not designers. That menubar is like 6 steps down to previous builds.

God-damnit.
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Really, I think virtually everyone considers the new menu bar an improvement. This is what really counts. If you're a designer and think you have the best looking OS but no one else agrees, it really doesn't matter. Apple understands that and the new menu bar proves it. I think the made a big improvement while still keeping the benefits of more personalization and the illusion of greater screen real estate.
 
menu bar

Seeing the different wallpaper behind the semi-transparent top menu gave me an idea...you could effectively shade or make solid the menu bar by photoshopping a small colored strip onto the top of your bg image (the same height as the menu bar of course). Pretty easy way to customize it I think.
 
Look great, much better then previous builds.

But, one thing I don't get about leopard is why is there now a expose dock icon? Is expose any different in Leopard?
 
sachamun said:
Seeing the different wallpaper behind the semi-transparent top menu gave me an idea...you could effectively shade or make solid the menu bar by photoshopping a small colored strip onto the top of your bg image (the same height as the menu bar of course). Pretty easy way to customize it I think.
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I'm pretty sure the menubar can be made opaque.
 
BWhaler said:
I've been pretty disappointed at Leopard all along. I guess I was expecting a lot more innovation from Apple.

Ideas I think Apple missed the boat on:

1. Have your Mac behave like a wireless headset for your iPhone. Send texts. Answer calls, etc. See who is calling on screen, etc. I know about BluePhone Elite, but Apple could do a much better job
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Address book can already (in tiger) send/receive texts and see who is calling on screen using a compatible bluetooth phone. (works on my nokia and on my previous sony ericssons). I'm not sure if it works with the iphone (no iphone in aus) but i cant imagine why they would leave it out!
 
swingerofbirch said:
I imagine it's easier to spread high bandwidth Internet in a country that's about the size of Minnesota. Also does your government control the Internet etc? When I lived in Europe I noticed technologies rolled out faster as the government was more in charge of it than were companies.
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I have 17mbit in Australia
 
Emm, space theme is great.
I love the 3D dock but please, the transparent menu bar? NO.....
 
Luigi239 said:
Look great, much better then previous builds.

But, one thing I don't get about leopard is why is there now a expose dock icon? Is expose any different in Leopard?
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It's just a way to activate expose without having to remember a keyboard shortcut - it functions like the Dashboard icon in Tiger. Just a shortcut kind of thing... Expose is mostly the same from what I can see just there is now another option for the Active Screen Corners part of the preferences - you can set it to sleep the display.

There is also "apps" for Spotlight and Spaces so you can do the same.
 
Best Leopard screenshots I've seen yet. Rated it a Positive for the first time.

But I still like Tiger's UI much better.
 
QuarterSwede said:
I'm pretty sure the menubar can be made opaque.
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This has been said a million times and everyone that actually has a build of Leopard says it can't be done, at least not obviously.

Until we have a screenshot of a pref pane proving otherwise, it's going to be transparent, with no options.
 
I'll have to agree with some of the members about the traffic lights.

Especially the yellow one, it looks like someone set the display to 256 colors. Or used MS Paint, hit a color, filled the circle with it, and used some other MSP tool to draw a white dot at the top. Ew.

And the lower halves of the buttons aren't all that well contoured at all.
 
MacAddict2000 said:
Best Leopard screenshots I've seen yet. Rated it a Positive for the first time.

But I still like Tiger's UI much better.
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I'm just curious, but what do you like better about Tiger's UI? Does the incorrect icon perspective for the dock bother you?

Wow, it hasn't even been 24 hours and this thread is past 300 posts (thanks to me ;)). Arghh... it's hard to keep up. Every time I refresh, there are another dozen posts. I give up! 8D
 
NicP said:
Address book can already (in tiger) send/receive texts and see who is calling on screen using a compatible bluetooth phone. (works on my nokia and on my previous sony ericssons). I'm not sure if it works with the iphone (no iphone in aus) but i cant imagine why they would leave it out!
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how can you do this?
 
exigentsky said:
What, are you serious? I just assumed that with the redesigned Finder in Leopard, they had to finally have a cut feature. This is something I've used for years and is far more basic than fancy features like Expose or Automator. If they don't fix this in Leopard I will be really annoyed. I even submitted it as a bug (among 70 other bugs and feature requests :p).
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As a recent switcher, this is one feature that makes me sick not having it. C'mon...the only way to move items is to use the mouse and the spring loaded folders? Geeez.....give us atleast a setting to allow for cutting in finder!

Also....fix the option to force all open finder windows to be in list view.....it just doesn't work in Tiger.

-Kevin
 
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