ChrisH3677 said:
ok... i don't know if this has been raised or not in all the zillion threads on this. I've read most of them tho...
- the Search box is missing its grey triangle.
I would have imagined that the drawing of a search box is standard re-usable code - straight out of a library. For the laymen... in other words, whether it's in Safari, Finder, iTunes or Preferences, it's the same code-routine being called to draw the object - in this case the Search box.
That said, it is possible there is a parameter in the code to toggle the display of the triangle off. But why would Apple not want the triangle in the Preferences search box?? That dain't make sense.
I agree also. The whole entire bar at the top looks like a cut and paste job from a finder window. Why would system preferences have a forward and backwards button, that just adds confusion and complexity.
Also notice how the "Show All" button is conviently is the same shape, size and in the same position as the "view" buttons in finder, why would Apple abandon the Panther "Show All" buttons (plus the others).
Also the drop down box covers over some of the options, very user unfriendly. Although my favourite would have to be this one. In the "search 1" example, the user has typed in the character "d" and the various options relating to that character have appeared such a: DNS Servers, Displays, Trackpad Sensitivity, Rebuild Classic 'Dekstop' (there typo not mine), etc. Also the related preferences are now glowing white. But one thing I noticed was the absence of a "d" word that would be used a bit in preferences, "disable", for example "disable expose" or "disable speech", BUT both thoses options are blackened out in the picture.
Like most people have said I believe that these are fake. Some of you might say that that maybe this is an early design, but I don't think that apple would rebuild pre existing features, why re-invent the wheel.
I think Tiger, being the highly evolved OS, will offer more than this. We'll find on Monday
