Jaguar Reviewed...

[pascalpp]

where are the screenshots?

could someone kindly post a direct link to the screenshots of jaguar, on spymac or elsewhere? all i can seem to find in spymac's gallery are photos of the keynote itself.

thanks in advance,

-p

 

[Kid Red]

Originally posted by mywar2000
Did anyone notice under the MOUSE PREF'S:

Tracking Speed
Double-click Speed

AND

SCROLLING SPEED!

2 button mouse W/ SCROLL wheel here we come!!

Check it out:
http://macthis.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=1&page=13

Yea it's cool. The digital hub prefs are better. Choose what action you want when certain devices are connected. A whole bunch of new stuff is in it

 

[foniks2020]

Quartz Extreme image.

" If anyone is wondering exactly what Quartz Extreme could do, here's a screenshot [mycom.co.jp].

There's a DVD playing. The teacups are floating around from a different application. They are chrome.

They are reflecting in real time what the movie is playing.

(probably why it won't work on my Rage 128)"

Any Questions?

 

[Tiauguinho]

Do you have any more photos from Quartz Extreme?

 

[The Bender]

Re: languages?

Originally posted by Longey Nowze
I haven't seen anyone talk about this... maybe cuz it doesn't affect you much... but what languages are supported by jaguar? there are many many missing languages in OS X which is what is keeping a lot of people from upgrading and if they have to upgrade.. some of them are buying wintels... so anyone who's tried a copy can you please tell me if they have new languages? or if they are just the same old ones?

THANK YOU
MaT

It would be very, very nice to have Hebrew support at long last. And I guess Arabic is in the same boat. It's a big market that's being sent slowly over to the Dark Side. What's most frustrating is that all the nuts and bolts are already there in the system, even right-to-left text support. With Unicode support, X was practically built for the international market, but somewhere there's a road-block. As far as I know, even Cyrillic has only been made to work through user hacks.

It wouldn't be difficult, so how about it? Any news?

 

[Wry Cooter]

If there has been anything I have been waiting for from mac, its flying silver teacups reflecting my DVD movies in realtime! Why can't windows have anything this useful?

Find File is back? That is really my main concern a workable finder. For those of you that have played with jaguar... does command F bring up an EXTENDED find dialog as well, where I could find files by creator and type, etc...? That is ALL i ever used in sherlock. It is also vital that you be able to drag and drop a file to this dialog to fill in creator and type, etc..., which is a bit more difficult in OS X due to the way resource fork info is handled.

Considering that even with the forced filing discipline separating apps from docs that OS X will place on us, there are a lot of files due to their invisibility, that we cannot find so easily by locale, a good finder is fairly important, especially as HD sizes climb.

 

[Q-bert]

Originally posted by Wry Cooter
If there has been anything I have been waiting for from mac, its flying silver teacups reflecting my DVD movies in realtime! Why can't windows have anything this useful?

Relax, that's just a demo that shows off what's possible in a OS X programmer's hands. It doesn't mean it's intended as an actual example of something people would do with their Macs in real life - remember, this was a DEVELOPER'S conference, they get jazzed over programming possibilities, so demos like that are more interesting to them than the rest of us. Wait and see what they end up doing with all that power, that's when the real excitement happens.

If I use my imagination, I can think of a lot of things to do with combining 2D windows and 3D elements like that.

 

[Wry Cooter]

Originally posted by Q-bert


Relax, that's just a demo that shows off what's possible in a OS X programmer's hands.

I was relaxed. Heck, one of my eyes was practically asleep, see

I still want to know, can you find a file by resource fork info creator and type, in Jaguar?
That is ALL I ever used sherlock for. I don't remember if it was a function of find file before Sherlock, it probably was. Now that Sherlock is apparently Watson, I want to know if Find File was all it used to be. I need to create custom search criteria on more than mere name of file.

Sherlock wasn't that bad early on, despite the unwindowshadable chrome frame, if you had a fast web connection. It could pull up multiple searches fast. Then the search engines stopped playing along as well.. they didn't want meta tools bypassing their banner ads, so any sherlock search soon became pretty much of a joke.

 

[cleo]

Originally posted by Kid Red

-New mouse cursor. It has white outline with slight drop shadow. Doesn't work in all apps, maybe cocoa apps only? Reverts to old cursor with iTunes i.e.

How frickin' annoying will that be?! It's bad enough to get the old-school B&W spinning watch here and there, but having my cursor shift every time I switch apps seems like it would drive me up the frickin' wall. Grrr.

 

[GeneralAntilles]

It isnt that bad...

Originally posted by cleo


How frickin' annoying will that be?! It's bad enough to get the old-school B&W spinning watch here and there, but having my cursor shift every time I switch apps seems like it would drive me up the frickin' wall. Grrr.

It isn't that noticeable, the cursors aren't different enough that your eyes jump to it every time it changes...

 

[foniks2020]

QE imagination

Originally posted by Q-bert

If I use my imagination, I can think of a lot of things to do with combining 2D windows and 3D elements like that.

...and it's not just 2D/3D, it's also video. This turns your desktop into what all us sci-fi geeks have been waiting our whole lives to use.

Think back to all the cool interfaces from all the best movies/cartoons you've ever seen... that's what QE can do and much more. The hard part is going to be designing 'good' interfaces that are usable, as usable as the old 2D w/ z-dimension that we're used to.

I can't wait to be able to pan my desktop around one of my storage polyhedons and pick the method I would like to interact with the document on the 15th face.

I also want to have a 3D map of TLOTR serve as my finder and store my documents in appropriate environments as a method of encryption. Guess the riddle of Smaug or you'll never see my financials!!!

 

[sluthy]

Windows interoptability?

I was happy to hear about SMB browsing and sharing. Does this now mean that my Wintel can see my iMac? Finally.

Also, does Rendezvous work with OS 9 or Windows? Right now, I have my entire music library on both the Wintel AND the iMac, and I'm running out of space. What's the deal with Rendezvous?

 

[Jays]

Re: Re: languages?

Originally posted by The Bender


It would be very, very nice to have Hebrew support at long last. And I guess Arabic is in the same boat. It's a big market that's being sent slowly over to the Dark Side. What's most frustrating is that all the nuts and bolts are already there in the system, even right-to-left text support. With Unicode support, X was practically built for the international market, but somewhere there's a road-block. As far as I know, even Cyrillic has only been made to work through user hacks.

It wouldn't be difficult, so how about it? Any news?

I agree, I actually posted here about that last week but no one took any notice.
bender you can read hebrew mail and surf just about any web page using Mozzila build 0.98 and higher, as for writing in Hebrew you can copy the Keyboard extras from OS9 and put them in the System of X, then you get the hebrew keyboard in the menu.

by the way there is also Meller for X a shareware simple word prossesor for Hebrew. still I would rather see it integrated into the OS.

M$ has pretty much monopolies the Hebrew market with there dirty tricks like pulling out Hebrew support from IE and Office on the Mac, used to work but no more!