Leopard Desktop

[72930]

it's a good thing you can change the desktop wallpaper

Its what people will see in the Apple Stores...

 

[Project]

I can see Stacks being very useful though.

Say I am working on a project.... I can just drag it to the Dock like you can with folders now, but with the spiffy stacked interface. I wonder if it works for smart folders.

 

[Burgess07]

is there an application like stacks for Tiger?

 

[coreyweb]

So whats up with everyone fussing over the green grass?

It looks like Vista? Well maybe Apple wants it to look like Vista.....as in "you see this? Its Vista x 100. We took Vista and kicked it in the balls"

Personally though...I think it looks gorgeous! Eye candy can never hurt....as long as it doesn't eat up space, etc. The demo's....are freakin' beautiful on the macbooks. Seriously....are the macbooks screens really that nice?? Cause they look....to die for. Maybe its the new graphics stuff in Leopard?? Leopard looks like its gonna be pretty dang sweet!!

I wonder why they need so many more months to finish it...(I guess bugs and stuff..)

But man....I wish I could get it now with my computer. Oh well...patience is a good thing.

 

[djejrejk]

I hope that we can adjust the opacity of the menu bar. I don't like the "glass" look, which is why I don't run vista.

 

[Taylor C]

As of now it seems way to Vista-like, but hopefully some pictures will start circulating from those with the beta.

 

[radiantm3]

I hope that we can adjust the opacity of the menu bar. I don't like the "glass" look, which is why I don't run vista.

That's a petty reason not to run an OS. I'd hate to know how you pick your mate.

I love the transparent menu bar because it's less distracting. The leopard desktop seems much cleaner now.

 

[pengu]

Weird as it seems, i was only thinking the other day "i wish there was a way to add a "special" icon to the sidebar (not just a folder, one of those folder-less icons) for Downloads (i have a custom folder icon for downloads) and WHAM. apple gives us one.

as for the grass. its wallpaper. how many people REALLY have XP with the stupid hills as wallpaper? and the desktop icon is always gonna be "out" based on the wallpaper. hell, the "computer" icon in tiger is for the old iMac!

(yes i am aware of the polar opposites of my two comments. what can i say, im complex. )

 

[indraunt]

For the same size icons, the dock looks as though it takes up more room - there is more space below the icons. Kinda irritating... But I'll probably change my tune when I get Leopard. I hate the Dock in Tiger - I find it pretty useless - But the Stacks look damn handy. An excellenet replacement for a desktop cluttered with icons.

 

[Nermal]

So, it's been what, 4 years since the Piles rumour? They're finally here!

 

[synth3tik]

I'm still unsure about the Menu Bar, it reminds me too much of Vista.

I'm with you on that. I like the ability of transparencies, but it does mirror vista, although vista is a whole lot darker. It took foeva to get vista to look "un-depressing"

 

[Lixivial]

So, it's been what, 4 years since the Piles rumour? They're finally here!

Yes! This is just one bit on the list that Tog lobbied for/marked out as being inefficient in Mac OS X.

It's been patented for nigh on 6 years now (applied for 13 years ago).

 

[indraunt]

Seriously, what is wrong with the menubar "looking like vista"? Not that it really does anyway... It's transluscent thats as close as it gets, and how is that really a problem?