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Mac OS X 10.7 to Get iOS Scrollbars?
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rubber band page rebounding when scrolling past the top and bottom of the page = good
reducing the on-screen width of the scroll bars without losing any functionality = good
messing around with quicklook = I'm trepidacious. Quicklook is one of my favorite computer features ever. The only thing I'd change about it is to let it keep playing media when you click away from the quicklook window, and to make it not lose its place when you navigate around and then come back to the quicklook'ed window place you started from initially. But other than those 2 changes, I find it hard to imagine any other changes to quicklook that would be good changes.
reducing the on-screen width of the scroll bars without losing any functionality = good
messing around with quicklook = I'm trepidacious. Quicklook is one of my favorite computer features ever. The only thing I'd change about it is to let it keep playing media when you click away from the quicklook window, and to make it not lose its place when you navigate around and then come back to the quicklook'ed window place you started from initially. But other than those 2 changes, I find it hard to imagine any other changes to quicklook that would be good changes.
Aero > Aqua
But yea, I would also like to see some consistency throughout the entire OS, instead of per-application basis. All the buttons, scroll bars, etc. really should look the same.
Congrats Apple...
...I have to stand up and applaud the security team of Mac OS X development. We're less than 24 hrs away from a major debuting OS (according to the hint on the invitation it will be a 10.7 LION preview)...
...and the only rumor we hear are MF scroll bars.
I honestly would love to either:
a) give Aqua a modern and slim refresh
b) let it rot in hell
If those scrollbars become real - great.
Now how about getting Spotlight back to 10.4 features?
How about resolution independence (oh - we heard it all before)?
How about giving ZFS or another filesystem some love?
Honestly - if all we got to discuss about are friggin scrollbars - then JEEBUS, the rumor mill is dry!
...I have to stand up and applaud the security team of Mac OS X development. We're less than 24 hrs away from a major debuting OS (according to the hint on the invitation it will be a 10.7 LION preview)...
...and the only rumor we hear are MF scroll bars.
I honestly would love to either:
a) give Aqua a modern and slim refresh
b) let it rot in hell
If those scrollbars become real - great.
Now how about getting Spotlight back to 10.4 features?
How about resolution independence (oh - we heard it all before)?
How about giving ZFS or another filesystem some love?
Honestly - if all we got to discuss about are friggin scrollbars - then JEEBUS, the rumor mill is dry!
Did I miss this in OS4, in the picture it looks like the phone is linked to a time capsule for backup or is that for syncing to Mob Me.
I think the reason for this change (if its implemented) is that most users will not actually use the scroll bar, but choose to scroll using a scroll ball mouse or multi touch device to scroll...
This method of scrolling really makes having a constant visual scrollbar redundant.
This method of scrolling really makes having a constant visual scrollbar redundant.
That symbol indicates that the portrait screen is locked and can not be switched to landscape
Haha, I have to agree! I find it funny that we're discussing scroll bars here.
But as for them, I'm not against seeing something else there.
Good point. An always-visible scroll bar is a de facto progress meter.
Also, I never use the dock in disappearing mode. I hate have to wait even a half second for something to appear before I can click on it. I want instantaneous clickability, at least where docks (and scrollbars) are considered.
So in short...I'm not down with disappearing scroll bars. Assuming that's even part of the OS.
I agree. And that would also make the rubber banding more intuitive here, although I can understand those using a mouse. But if using a touchpad or the Magic Trackpad, it basically already feels like using iOS, so as for those input devices they can just as well make it more iOS like for all I care.
Wow, all these comments over a simple scroll bar. Just thing what it would be like if they leaked something that was actually important.
If I had a penny for every time someone has said that about Apple since Steve Jobs returned, and been wrong, I'd have...a LOT of pennies.
I'm beginning to think that most users don't realize that you can grab the scroll bar to quickly move to anywhere in the file, something you can't do with a scroll ball/wheel/stroke.
Other than that, you can certainly get rid of the scroll arrow buttons and the ability to click above/below the scroll bar for up/down page. Those are redundant.
i call the green red and yellow buttons going up and down like in itunes 10 threw out the entire os.
Including the whining about the whining!
I'll contribute my fair share: MAC USERS: Prepare to bow before your fingertip overlords!
The problem is if they get rid of the Aqua scroling bar then they also need to do something about the top url bar which has Aqua color when going to another site.
first iTunes, nowwants to make everything else look GREY and dull in OSX it seems, dissapointed
What do you want to focus on when you use a computer? Is it your content, or a big, colorful UI?
Monochrome means that you are free to see your content without being distracted by the UI.
Or you could say iTunes scrollbars. Whatever the current iTunes looks like is what the next version of OS X will look like. It's been that way for 10 years.