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Leopard In Action: A Movie?
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Well, if this is all Apple could do to improve the Finder after this length of time... I am sorely not impressed.
I remember hearing rumors about Apple actually creating alot of improvements to the Finder. I hope this is not all they did: add color to the sidebar and tabbed Finder.... don't get me wrong, these are nice improvements and all but ones that could take less than a month to do, not 2 yrs.
I hope on the *official* Leopard, they have improved the Finder as much as PathFinder looks. That would be darn cool. I know how Apple likes to keep things really simplified but it hurts us users that like some more control/power over things. Why not even implement a Preference for a Finder Basic or Finder Professional. That way, you have both and can satisfy both sides of the camps. Kinda like they already do with DVD Studio Pro.
Apple: Please don't let Leopard out as boring as this video looks....please!!!
Well, if this is all Apple could do to improve the Finder after this length of time... I am sorely not impressed.
I remember hearing rumors about Apple actually creating alot of improvements to the Finder. I hope this is not all they did: add color to the sidebar and tabbed Finder.... don't get me wrong, these are nice improvements and all but ones that could take less than a month to do, not 2 yrs.
I hope on the *official* Leopard, they have improved the Finder as much as PathFinder looks. That would be darn cool. I know how Apple likes to keep things really simplified but it hurts us users that like some more control/power over things. Why not even implement a Preference for a Finder Basic or Finder Professional. That way, you have both and can satisfy both sides of the camps. Kinda like they already do with DVD Studio Pro.
Apple: Please don't let Leopard out as boring as this video looks....please!!!
Not just that I'm not impressed (though I have been waiting effing ages for tabs), but did anyone else wonder why it was running on an iMac G5 (with a PPC processor) and not a new Intel mac (which you would think it would be designed for, given the hardware switch over)? What kind of sense would that make, even in its preliminary stages? Or had they not planned on making the OS processor-exclusive yet?
Looks fake to me. They would have shown more plus the dock would have had some new apps in it. (both things obviously stated many times before)
No that is what you think you see...Philberttheduck said:
If you watch the video or pick other frames you can see all kinds of dates (including 2006). In other words attempting to look at single frame in a video stream with motion blur taking place and then compressed to hell and trying to make a judgement is... well not really useful.
Yes 1993 makes no sense. It's most likely going to say 1983-2006, in the same way Finder currently says 1983-2005.HGW said:
prefetching?
just a thought on the finder window discussion... isnt a rumored feature of Leopard supposed to be prefetching? otherwise if he did this more than once, and since he only has one app apparently open, it should open instantianously . same thing happens to me on a 1ghz iMac... 3 trys and its instantanous. As for leopard... if this is all that they are going to offer then, i hate to say it, but vista is looking a tad better. apple has to up their game just a tad
just a thought on the finder window discussion... isnt a rumored feature of Leopard supposed to be prefetching? otherwise if he did this more than once, and since he only has one app apparently open, it should open instantianously
. same thing happens to me on a 1ghz iMac... 3 trys and its instantanous. As for leopard... if this is all that they are going to offer then, i hate to say it, but vista is looking a tad better. apple has to up their game just a tad 
I just noticed something, the whole "Sidebar" idea is perfectly plausible, just look at iPhoto's sidebar.
If this has been mentioned sorry, I searched the thread for "iPhoto" and nothing came up.
If this has been mentioned sorry, I searched the thread for "iPhoto" and nothing came up.
mandis said:
I'm with you 100%. Every time I find myself either having to open 2 finder windows, or having to wait and drill down through my entire directory structure I find myself very annoyed that such a superior OS has such an inferior file system gui.
Make it turned off by default, whatever. Just give me a single window where I can see the source and destination folders at the same time, even if they're not parents/children of each other!!!
It's not just Winders 95+ that has a tree view, it's every major x-windows file browser gui as well.
Oh, and I'm giving tabs a thumbs-up. Because of the lack of a tree view, I'm always having new finder windows pop up every time I do the drill-down routine. They multiply like rabbits! At least keeping them in one window will help the desktop stay more manageable. (But I'd be MUCH happier with a tree view!!!)
dnedved said:
Hell no...tree view on the Finder would be like copying the worst from Windows...no, please...it's one of the most confusing features ever on Windows Explorer.
Formally Cool said:
jeez, you guys need to look for the details that actually prove (without a doubt) that it's fake.
Like this clip runs 1:05 in duration, but the clock never changes from 4:42 PM. So unless this person lives somewhere where minutes are skewed, this whole clip (and the person sharing it) has been debunked.
tree view
also i find opening two windows irritating.
maybe the bottom half of the finder could incorporate a columns view of where you are going, and that could be independant also.
the sidebar idea was available before panther (you just had to drag things to the topbar instead) shame on apple for making us pay for that ugrade.
i would like to see apple use the apple menu for more and keep the use of finder to a minimal (turn it into a pro app)
also i find opening two windows irritating.
maybe the bottom half of the finder could incorporate a columns view of where you are going, and that could be independant also.
the sidebar idea was available before panther (you just had to drag things to the topbar instead) shame on apple for making us pay for that ugrade.
i would like to see apple use the apple menu for more and keep the use of finder to a minimal (turn it into a pro app)
It's not real.
1. The Finder window is simply a hacked Path Finder. All you have to do is get rid of the Finder icon from the Dock's plist and change Path Finder's icon to the Finder's. It's in System/Library/CoreServices/Finder/Finder.icns.
2. The "About this Mac" box's system version can be hacked too. Go to System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist and you can change it to say "Version 10.5 Pre-Release".
3. If he's testing Leopard, doesn't it seem kinda strange that he only provides one video and no kind of demonstration of the features besides the Finder? And why is the video so short? It's only out of unwillingness to make more videos.
4. Anybody who's testing Leopard would be rich enough to get himself some good Mac screen recorder software.
5. I'm confused why anybody would believe this is real after all of the fake screenshots posted in the last couple of weeks (including my own</a>).
1. The Finder window is simply a hacked Path Finder. All you have to do is get rid of the Finder icon from the Dock's plist and change Path Finder's icon to the Finder's. It's in System/Library/CoreServices/Finder/Finder.icns.
2. The "About this Mac" box's system version can be hacked too. Go to System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist and you can change it to say "Version 10.5 Pre-Release".
3. If he's testing Leopard, doesn't it seem kinda strange that he only provides one video and no kind of demonstration of the features besides the Finder? And why is the video so short? It's only out of unwillingness to make more videos.
4. Anybody who's testing Leopard would be rich enough to get himself some good Mac screen recorder software.
5. I'm confused why anybody would believe this is real after all of the fake screenshots posted in the last couple of weeks (including my own</a>).
StrongBad said:
Huh....
What video are you looking at? Not once did I see the upper right corner of the screen (where I'm assuming you are seeing a clock that never changes it's time). Do the mirrors have some kind of re-edited mov where we aren't seeing the whole frame?
Oh and the mirrored clip is a mere 28 seconds long (not 1 min 5 sec)
Dave