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Mac OS X 10.4.2 This Week?
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The widget icons in the Dashboard drawer need to be smaller by half! They are currently too big, that I need to scroll 3 screenfuls on my 12" PB just to get to the widget that I want. I'd like to see a widget list, in addition to setting widget icon sizes.
Lacero said:
I agree with this one. Maybe something like the earlier builds of Tiger that showed a Dashboard 'window' where users clicked on the widget they wanted to open and it opened up. Took up much less screen space, and I like the design more too (some of the icons for third party widgets can get UGLY)
Maybe 10.4.2 is going to be the first Intel build released to the public. At the rate they're going, it seems likely.
If it is finishing off the widget manager that's holding things up, I'll be very annoyed. You fix the things that are broken first then you add the bells and whistles. If you can get the bells and whistles ready in parallel with the bug fixes, fine, but if they're holding up important bug fixes for what is basically fluff (yes, I know the widget manager will be nice, but it's not as if the Dashboard is unusable without it) I'll be pretty annoyed.
I'm pretty lucky in terms of weirdness with my machine - the only thing I run into regularly is the Safari problem with secure sites, and my Big Disk Extreme seems to have issues when connected via Firewire 800 (to a LaCie Firewire 800 card). It'll behave for days then suddenly, when woken, it'll start resetting the Firewire bus several hundred times a minute until it eventually just gives up, and the only way to get it going again is to remove the cable then reconnect it. It's definitely not the card (since I'm on my second), so it's either the cable, the Firewire 800 ports in the BDE (it works beautifully on the Firewire 400 port), or something in OS X.
Al
If it is finishing off the widget manager that's holding things up, I'll be very annoyed. You fix the things that are broken first then you add the bells and whistles. If you can get the bells and whistles ready in parallel with the bug fixes, fine, but if they're holding up important bug fixes for what is basically fluff (yes, I know the widget manager will be nice, but it's not as if the Dashboard is unusable without it) I'll be pretty annoyed.
I'm pretty lucky in terms of weirdness with my machine - the only thing I run into regularly is the Safari problem with secure sites, and my Big Disk Extreme seems to have issues when connected via Firewire 800 (to a LaCie Firewire 800 card). It'll behave for days then suddenly, when woken, it'll start resetting the Firewire bus several hundred times a minute until it eventually just gives up, and the only way to get it going again is to remove the cable then reconnect it. It's definitely not the card (since I'm on my second), so it's either the cable, the Firewire 800 ports in the BDE (it works beautifully on the Firewire 400 port), or something in OS X.
Al
Im pretty sure that the update is postponed due to some minor flows in the Manager of the Dashboard Manager (MDM), an astonishing new little app written from scratch just last days. So yet a few days of waiting, which undoubtedly will be more then rewarded! Im not entirely sure though whether or not theyll take a chance releasing the long anticipated Manager of the Dashboard Manager without the rock solid Manager of the Manager of the Dashboard Manager (MMDM, which at the moment is in the early stage of development)... It seems a bit risky.
For the dashboard icon size...I'm hoping they put in a slider that works similar to the dock, and the size of the icons on your desktop, or in the finder.
Lacero said:
Good point. Although I don't have Tiger, from the demos and such that I've seen, it appears to me like once a person has a substantial amount of widgets, it would take quite a while to scroll through and select them using the current setup.
Perhaps Apple could simply treat the Dashboard Drawer like the Dock, whereby the user can select the size of the icons?
~Shard~ said:
Why not use spotlight search that is just for dashboard. Kind of a like its integrated into finder or save/open dialog boxes or Sys Pref, but that one would work only when dashboard is active. The matching widgets could then slide in and center themself on that bottom bar. That wouldn't require much coding since it would use spotlight engine just some new interface for dashboard widget menu.
That is my 2 cents
Mac_Freak said:Why not use spotlight search that is just for dashboard. Kind of a like its integrated into finder or save/open dialog boxes or Sys Pref, but that one would work only when dashboard is active. The matching widgets could then slide in and center themself on that bottom bar. That wouldn't require much coding since it would use spotlight engine just some new interface for dashboard widget menu.
That would be a good improvement as well. Let's hope Apple is taking notes.
I've got 4 pages of widgets now at the bottom of my screen and yes, it's a pain going through them.
I've now told Quicksilver to index my Widget folder so I can launch widgets directly from there. Much faster!
I think one of the widget manager widgets allows you to search and launch directly from it.
I've now told Quicksilver to index my Widget folder so I can launch widgets directly from there. Much faster!
I think one of the widget manager widgets allows you to search and launch directly from it.
Macrumors said:
Appleinsider claims that retail Mac OS X boxes will start shipping with Mac OS X 10.4.2 sometime this month. Meanwhile, the Mac OS X update should be released this week:
Fixes listed include graphics drivers, Finder updates, improved autologin as well as changes to various core applications including Address Book, Automator, Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, iCal, iChat, Mail, Safari, and Stickies.
Apple reportedly seeded Mac OS X 10.4.2 Build 8C29 this past weekend. There are "no known issues" with the update at the time of seeding.
Still waiting........
MacTruck said:
We all are.
But I think you would agree that given the bugginess of Tiger, it's worth waiting a week or two (if need be) to get as many bugs fixed in this next release. Then we can consider Tiger "Gold Build" quality.
I am just glad the rumors about Apple taking .2 seriously and trying to nail out the bugs are true.
I hope we see .2 next week. But, if Apple keeps banging out the bugs, then that will be A-Ok in my books. Just as long as the syncing, mail, ui, etc. bugs are all gone.
You aren't the only one encountering this issue. I have the same problem with my BDE on my Powerbook. I've used different cables as well as FW400. Same problem. It started as soon as I installed Tiger.awrc said:
I know of at least one other person who has this problem. He has multiple different external LaCie drives, and they all exhibit the problem. So it seems to be either an issue with LaCie's firmware or Tiger, or a little of both.
I've noticed, btw, that it doesn't have any problems when you try to write data to the drive, only when reading. Perhaps some kind of buffer underrun. Anyway, glad to have found someone else with the same issue, and here's to hoping that it gets fixed in .2.
BWhaler said:
I totally agree with this statement. I have a few minor issues every once in a while, but nothing that keeps me from moving forward. I would much rather wait and let them squash as many bugs as possible than have them put something out quickly just to fix one or two issues which then almost always introduces new issues.
I have been in software development 16+ years and I have seen this happen too many times.
Kerry Sanders said:I totally agree with this statement. I have a few minor issues every once in a while, but nothing that keeps me from moving forward. I would much rather wait and let them squash as many bugs as possible than have them put something out quickly just to fix one or two issues which then almost always introduces new issues.
I have been in software development 16+ years and I have seen this happen too many times.
Lets just hope, that is what Apple is trying to accomplish. Looking at fixing the majority of bugs and what possible other issues that might cause. Apple seems to be working very diligently on our behalf. It will be released when it's ready.
Mac OS X 10.4.2 8C44
Macnews (http://haligon.blogspot.com/) reports:
Yesterday, Apple seeded yet another build of Mac OS X 10.4.2, this time fixing a couple of issues with AirPort connections after switching network locations as well as some Dashboard widget issues.
Macnews (http://haligon.blogspot.com/) reports:
Yesterday, Apple seeded yet another build of Mac OS X 10.4.2, this time fixing a couple of issues with AirPort connections after switching network locations as well as some Dashboard widget issues.
propropro said:I would like to know if there is some clue about Quartz 2D Extreme being finally enabled for our benefit
I can only imagine there are problems else they would have done so already.
alexeismertin said:
More great news as more bugs are gone. Build is 8C44.
Keep stomping out those bugs Apple. Make Tiger live up to its potential. (And so the OS X team can focus on crushing Microsoft with Leopard. THAT is one upgrade that truly needs to be revolutionary....as much as OS X was a leap over OS9.)
BWhaler said:
Apple continues to be hard at work. Looking forward to improved QuickTime. Actually the Tiger team will continue working on our behalf to improve Tiger until the transition to Leopard. The Panther team is the one that has been transferred to work on Leopard.
TiBook Brightness Issue
I dunno how many ppl have been annoyed as hell about the fact that Tiger kills the Brightness controls on the TiBooks. I really hope they fix that in the new update
I dunno how many ppl have been annoyed as hell about the fact that Tiger kills the Brightness controls on the TiBooks. I really hope they fix that in the new update