The black menus only show up when Dock Expose is activated. When you right click the dock without Expose activated the menu shows up white.
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The black menus only show up when Dock Expose is activated. When you right click the dock without Expose activated the menu shows up white.
Waiting for updated Xcode to download before I reboot, but damn I hope it works better than 10A380.
Mine disconnects my MightyMouse every couple of hours & has trouble reconnecting. What have your problems been?
Sorry if I'm sounding needy but has anyone else run into my problem? I'm seeing that a lot of people are successfully installing it so. Like I said it downloads the update and it gets through most of the install and then says an error has occurred. Then another window pops up saying that the update file doesn't exist. I think I have ran into this problem before but I can't remember what I did. I've tried it several times with no success. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Yeah, you have to download the combo update and install it that way. Otherwise you're screwed... so since there's no combo update... you're probably screwed. sorry.
There are some nice improvements being done although the transitions need to be smoother. Also, where is the double click the title bar to minimize the window?
Another thing is when you press the expose button more than once repeatedly, you don't have to wait for OS X to catch up to you. It stops expose mid-way through and goes back. This is useful especially when someone holds shift and presses the expose button many times. You had to wait for the animation to stop before which could be a loooong time. Also, I like how the windows don't switch positions anymore when you switch windows with expose so you don't get disoriented.
I'm not sure about the blue around the expose windows though. It looks cheesy like Top Sites in Safari 4 Beta.
Another thing is when you press the expose button more than once repeatedly, you don't have to wait for OS X to catch up to you. It stops expose mid-way through and goes back. This is useful especially when someone holds shift and presses the expose button many times. You had to wait for the animation to stop before which could be a loooong time. Also, I like how the windows don't switch positions anymore when you switch windows with expose so you don't get disoriented.
I'm not sure about the blue around the expose windows though. It looks cheesy like Top Sites in Safari 4 Beta.
Not sure if anyone made one or not yet, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZFLVV2mIV0 is a demo of the Dock Expose in HD!
It wouldn't even turn on, it would show as connected when I started the machine, then I'd click on the menubar icon and it'd just fade out, turn itself off, and everything would disconnect, was super annoying, went back to 10.5.7 after a day of it, and not even the BT firmware update helped which was conveniently released just after 10A380 was seeded so I was hoping it'd help.
waiting for XCode myself.
Yeah, I noticed this behavior in PhotoBooth in 10A380 as well, for the screenshots and photos that is.
Sorry if I'm sounding needy but has anyone else run into my problem? I'm seeing that a lot of people are successfully installing it so. Like I said it downloads the update and it gets through most of the install and then says an error has occurred. Then another window pops up saying that the update file doesn't exist. I think I have ran into this problem before but I can't remember what I did. I've tried it several times with no success. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Don't ask for help with a Snow Leopard Beta at MacRumors. Did you forget you signed an NDA? Post your questions in the Apple SL Beta forum.
For one Flash now uses a little bit less CPU. Not sure why but it does. Also Safari has gotten more stable and does not crash any more ( yet ). Flash videos used to cause horrible crashes every once in a while. Never mind what Apple says about plugin isolation. But I think all that has been fixed now.
Oh and the AppleScript Utility is still missing ...
I see AppleScript Editor in the Utilities folder just fine.
I think this update is a bit more snappier than 10a380. Just feel much more smooth and faster or I am experiencing placebo.
Expose has just been taken to a whole new level with Dock Expose. Minimize windows now show up as minor thumbnails on the bottom with a divider between the minimized windows and regular full windows. Feels much more productive. It is now much easier to minimize all windows just by doing Expose and click hide.
No new QT icon in this seed which could mean this may not be the seed they used at WWDC demo or something else.
Overall, a very nice seed.
Update: I first stated that the screenshots taken was no longer the date but Window Capture 1 or Region Capture 1, apparently I was mistaken. The mistake came from the fact that my mouse button that was registered to take screenshot (cmd+control+3) would name it as Window Capture 1 but when I used the keyboard directly, it actually say the date.
yeah this is a nice improvement, it also applies to your photobooth pictures so you can easily identify them
Sorry if I'm sounding needy but has anyone else run into my problem? I'm seeing that a lot of people are successfully installing it so. Like I said it downloads the update and it gets through most of the install and then says an error has occurred. Then another window pops up saying that the update file doesn't exist. I think I have ran into this problem before but I can't remember what I did. I've tried it several times with no success. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Try the Apple Developer forum... perhaps they can help.
"Dock Exposé" sounds like it's somewhat similar to the Windows 7 taskbar behaviour.
Could someone who's familiar with both please comment on the pros and cons of each approach to the problem of finding or viewing a window that's not currently onscreen or in focus....
I find the Windows 7 taskbar to be brilliant when you're replying to an email, but forgot one bit of info. You can hover->hover->hover and see the original mail - then move the mouse a bit and you're back in your reply editor window without ever losing focus. To me this is huge - look at any window on the system, then back where you are in an instant. (Not "back where you were" - it's big that focus never leaves the starting window.)
This is so weird because in the past, when a new version of OS X was imminent, I would hyped up to check it out shortly before release. But this time around, I'm indifferent. It's not that I don't think SL will be great (looks like a winner) but rather that I have almost no gripes about Leopard as it is right now. I had major gripes with 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 and was very eager to see things addressed each step of the way. However, I could see living with OS X 10.5 for many years. There are some little things I would like to see changed or tweaked, but there aren't any of those big, annoying issues that past versions had.
I am taking it a little further.... I waited until WWDC build to try SL on my MBP... but two of my favorite apps are broken (Quicksilver and Cyberduck) and there are a lot of other annoyances, like 1Password is broken with 64bit safari, my office VPN client crashes etc.,
I like the speed improvements and definitely like the new dock expose from today's update but it is very likely that I will revert back to 10.5 soon.
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The fact that you have no gripes with 10.5 right now suggests you could not go wrong with Snow Leopard, it is after all only 29$. It is not a major departure from Leopard except for the under the hood changes. Dock expose actually is fun to use and does help with multiple windows management far more than Expose could in 10.5.
I am taking it a little further.... I waited until WWDC build to try SL on my MBP... but two of my favorite apps are broken (Quicksilver and Cyberduck) and there are a lot of other annoyances, like 1Password is broken with 64bit safari, my office VPN client crashes etc.,
I like the speed improvements and definitely like the new dock expose from today's update but it is very likely that I will revert back to 10.5 soon.
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Cyberduck has a special build on their site for SL. 1Passwd also has a way to make it work.