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Leopard In Release Candidate Cycle, 9A559 Gallery

DanB91 said:
command + escape activates front row :)
and since front row has its own app now any mac can activate it
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True, but "Front Row" was designed specifically for use with the Apple remote for wireless control (the Mac Pro is the only Mac without an IR sensor). If I'm going to play my music and movies via the keyboard, I might as well just iTunes :(.
 
Why the the scrollbars still look hideous and blurry? I hate that about Mac OS X. The scroll bars and proress bars just look SOOOOO 2001... what the heck. FIX THEM PLEASE APPLE! This madness has gone on for far too long.
 
ibanana said:
Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah)
Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma)
Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)
Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Mac OS X 10.6 ( ? )
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My memory is failing me now, but I thought there was a code name for 10.0 beta. Anyone know?
 
SteveG4Cube said:
Works with Tiger on my MacBook.
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I was referring to the Mac Pro.:)

plinden said:
I know you can enter text on a braille keyboard, but this is the VoiceOver utility. It seems to be that you can show a panel on screen and set its transparency. I'm not sure how this is supposed to be useful to anyone. That's why I asked for comments from people already using Leopard.
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I'll do this once only ..If I get called about it I'll be bummed.
 

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offwidafairies said:
dont burst my bubble!!!! have some faith :D
apple has had plenty of time to de-flea this one
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Plenty of time because you/we are anxious. But I don't think its plenty of time - they are scrapping features that would be pretty impressive and compelling if they could be completed. I personally would, as anxious as I am to have the new OS, rather hold onto rock-solid Tiger and give Apple a few more months to work them out, instead of cutting them.

Examples are Resolution Independence and Fast-User Switching for Bootcamp. If these big things, which are being orphaned in order to iron out the kinks in the rest of the OS, are to be forgotten until a future OS X release, I would rather be patient for a few more months than lose the features for the next few years.
 
InLikeALion said:
Plenty of time because you/we are anxious. But I don't think its plenty of time - they are scrapping features that would be pretty impressive and compelling if they could be completed. I personally would, as anxious as I am to have the new OS, rather hold onto rock-solid Tiger and give Apple a few more months to work them out, instead of cutting them.

Examples are Resolution Independence and Fast-User Switching for Bootcamp. If these big things, which are being orphaned in order to iron out the kinks in the rest of the OS, are to be forgotten until a future OS X release, I would rather be patient for a few more months than lose the features for the next few years.
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As I wrote earlier, I couldn't agree more.
 
I didn't see this in the gallery, but here's an example of the more translucent overlays:
 

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arn said:
I didn't see this in the gallery, but here's an example of the more translucent overlays:
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That looks tacky and irritating to me...maybe half-way between what we have now and that picture would be nice...
 
psychofreak said:
That looks tacky and irritating to me...maybe half-way between what we have now and that picture would be nice...
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You know, all this could be solved if Apple simply LET the USER define transparency. Why not incorporate user defined preferences for transparency and color for scroll bars as they do in Windows? It would allow a much more personalized experience and placate all the people who don't like certain graphical tweaks (it can't be that hard, can it?).
 
CJD2112 said:
You know, all this could be solved if Apple simply LET the USER define transparency. Why not incorporate user defined preferences for transparency and color for scroll bars as they do in Windows? It would allow a much more personalized experience and placate all the people who don't like certain graphical tweaks (it can't be that hard, can it?).
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I've tried Linux, and the user defined transparency is great, as the 'menubar' can look good no matter how cluttered your background is...

HOWEVER...too much customization can look awful, and SJ wants his precious machines to be shown off to family and friends looking purrfect...
 
InLikeALion said:
Plenty of time because you/we are anxious. But I don't think its plenty of time - they are scrapping features that would be pretty impressive and compelling if they could be completed. I personally would, as anxious as I am to have the new OS, rather hold onto rock-solid Tiger and give Apple a few more months to work them out, instead of cutting them.

Examples are Resolution Independence and Fast-User Switching for Bootcamp. If these big things, which are being orphaned in order to iron out the kinks in the rest of the OS, are to be forgotten until a future OS X release, I would rather be patient for a few more months than lose the features for the next few years.
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I think the expectations for "Resolution Independence" is far too high at the moment. As awesome as it would be, we're not going to see Resolution Independence as yet another control in Display where we can just dynamically change the "zoom" of our apps anytime soon. It's only there so that Apple can start releasing displays with higher PPI's and not alienate people with less than perfect vision.

What you will probably see is Apple updates around 10.5.4 will fix the problems with Leopard apps and their poor resolution independence support, and this will be just in time for the release of either a ultra portable Macbook (with a small high-density display) or a 15-inch Macbook Pro that supports 1080p. In the meantime they're concentrating on getting the real show-stopping bugs in Leopard fixed for launch, and go back to this (and ZFS, hopefully) later.

It will be a mid-Leopard feature update when the Mac hardware that needs it, similar to how Front Row came along halfway through Tiger with the addition of the remote.
 
klagermkii said:
It will be a mid-Leopard feature update when the Mac hardware that needs it, similar to how Front Row came along halfway through Tiger with the addition of the remote.
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Thats different, it only came with new computers from then on...it was not an update for older models...
 
Simon R. said:
"Support for resolution independence, which has rudimentary support in Tiger and had been rumored to be arriving with full support in Leopard, remains no where to be found."

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What's wrong with Apple these days? They announce features about a year back that are now gone. BIG features like resolution independency and the fast switching between Windows and OS X :rolleyes:
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Leopard has put a lot of work into RI. Apple has put a lot of time into RI with app devs. But until apps are updated to support RI, RI will not work. People don't just use Apple apps.

So Leopard has RI and while not every Apple app is RI enabled yet, the fact that all OS elements are RI ready now means that Apple can enable RI when its ready.

As for the fast switching - that was never announced. It was accidentally shown on the Leopard web pages for a couple hours.
 
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