Apple Tweaks Mac OS X Lion UI In Response to Criticism

[dethmaShine]

iCal looks great

iCal is awesome. Looks great; works great even in full screen mode.

The only issue is that in week view, the fonts are not properly anti-aliased.

I think Apple should have chosen Lucida Grande as a consistent font across the OS. iCal + Lucida Grande is much better than iCal + Helvetica which looks crap.

They need to get rid of Helvetica for Lion and other apps. PLEASE.

 

[TheAppleDragon]

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The iOS scrollbars ALWAYS looked that way to me. Dunno why. XD

I kinda liked the 'old' switch look to the tab selection, but that's just me.

Seriously though, no changes to Spaces...? :/

 

[PeterQVenkman]

1. Dang, I liked the sliders. Wish Apple would set an option in the system preferences to enable/disable them.

My bet is that you'll get sliders if you use it on a touch screen based mac which we all know are coming.

 

[Outsider]

Relax iOS style scrollbar haters and lovers. As mentioned above, scrollbars are the same. You can turn the on or off.

 

[elppa]

I like it as it is in Snow Leopard.

If Apple listened to all the “I like it as it” people we would still be on platinum.
Doesn't hurt to change things every now and then.

I wonder if this was in response to actual user feedback, or if Steve just decided one day…

 

[mrsir2009]

Bring back the disappearing scroll bars ya spineless bastards!

 

[JAT]

I kinda miss OS8 with its theme capability. Of course, it was a dog. All of this would be moot with customization like that.

 

[jeanlain]

Too bad, I was looking forward to the scroll bars similar to iOS

Where do people get the idea that scrollbars have changed?
They're just like they were before the update.

 

[jackeill]

And now please give me grid-full-screen-view-of-spaces and waste less space in Mission Control

 

[Banyan Bruce]

What is this hideous faux leather iCal format ????? It's just like the truly awful wooden background that somehow crawled in to the iPad. Please think again on this. It will look abysmal on a large iMac or MBP screen. It looks like a child's toy.

 

[dethmaShine]

Actually scrollbars look and behave exactly the same as they did before.

Whether they automatically hide or not is a preference, it has been since the first DP:

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Same with reverse scrolling. Nothing at all has changed about scrolling or scrollbars.

Same here, but maybe they have had a clean install on their systems after update II.

The scrolling is similar to any of the previous we have had so far.

 

[WildCowboy]

Thanks for the feedback on the preferences for the scrollbars, folks...I removed it from the article.

 

[abhimat.gautam]

With that headline, I was really hoping to see iCal reverted back to how it looked…

 

[jclardy]

Good to know that Apple is willing to change.

The Expose/Spaces "slider" was one of the first things I noticed that seemed strange when I installed the preview.

The slider makes sense when you have at least 3 icons but with only 2 it is not immediately apparent. I think we have been conditioned to take a darker button as being shadowed and therefore selected.

And the scrollbars being always on seems to be a good decision as well. It is nice to know where you are in a document at a glance, and the scrollbar does that pretty well.

 

[rorschach]

Same here, but maybe they have had a clean install on their systems after update II.

The scrolling is similar to any of the previous we have had so far.

Yeah they've probably just changed the default setting.

 

[slackpacker]

This is good the slider metaphor was very annoying and slow to use.

 

[Hazel]

They still need to revert the faux leather on iCal. That's hideous.

 

[ten-oak-druid]

I heard microsoft is making some changes to its next OS release too. Apparently the blue screen of death will be a black screen of death in Windows 8.

btw- does anyone know why the current version is named Windows 7? Why 7?

As for Lion, I am looking forward to having the ability to switch to an iOS appearance for apps. It will be nice to organize then like that. The idea has grown on me.

 

[LightSpeed1]

Let's hope this isn't the last change...
I disliked a few changes in the shortcuts in the track pad gestures...

Glad to know I'm not the only one.

 

[baryon]

Why are you people talking about scroll bars and scrolling? This article is about the buttons in sub-pane selectors. Not scrolling.

 

[rorschach]

Why are you people talking about scroll bars and scrolling? This article is about the buttons in sub-pane selectors. Not scrolling.

The article was just edited. It had a paragraph about the iOS-style scrollbars being gone.

 

[dethmaShine]

Hey wildcowboy, at least credit me for this article.

 

[LagunaSol]

What is this hideous faux leather iCal format ????? It's just like the truly awful wooden background that somehow crawled in to the iPad. Please think again on this. It will look abysmal on a large iMac or MBP screen. It looks like a child's toy.

Agreed. I thought we were well past the days when computer applications had to emulate their analog compatriots. Leather, wood, paper, stone = not for computer UIs please!

Speaking of bad iCal, why is it I can't flip pages in the Calendar app on my iPad by actually flicking the pages (a la iBooks)? Instead I have to tap on arrow buttons? What's up with that???

 

[dethmaShine]

Agreed. I thought we were well past the days when computer applications had to emulate their analog compatriots. Leather, wood, paper, stone = not for computer UIs please!

Speaking of bad iCal, why is it I can't flip pages in the Calendar app on my iPad by actually flicking the pages (a la iBooks)? Instead I have to tap on arrow buttons? What's up with that???

In Mac OS X, there are known as gestures.

Navigation gestures, for eg. 3 finger navigation.

 

[Appel]

Holy ****. Ical looks so f gross.