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Mac OS X Lion: 'Classic' Mail View Available, New Finder on Video
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I like all of the changes EXCEPT
The total drain of color. For the new OS X I could get by with a grayscale monitor. What gives with the removal of all colors from the interface? I waited 20 years for this evolution? Windows looks much better. The Finder and other core apps look lifeless. If this is what Apple is doing, I am switch back to Windows. Thank gosh for Boot Camp.
The total drain of color. For the new OS X I could get by with a grayscale monitor. What gives with the removal of all colors from the interface? I waited 20 years for this evolution? Windows looks much better. The Finder and other core apps look lifeless. If this is what Apple is doing, I am switch back to Windows. Thank gosh for Boot Camp.
iOS meets Mac OS.....they shall Coexist
Considering that Mac OS Lion Server has merged with Mac OS Lion Client, and wetting its toes with iOS, my guess that Mac OS 10.8 will be combined OS Desktop and iOS.
Bring the OS development team under one roof, saving a lot of funds while contributing into innovation. This is just the start of Client and Server merger with a few things borrowed from iOS, it will only get better or worse depending on ones perspective. Cost too much to develop for x86(x64) and ARM processors. Plus look at all the revenue to be made from the large pool of developer for iOS to transition to Mac iOS X.
I dream of Aqua 10.0
It looked so great in print back in the day, now with this lifeless colourless OS, its making me depressed.
If you want to see the video, go to the second page of the story on AppleInsider, linked in this article. They are now hosting the video themselves.
I like the changes, though. If you want to see how big the page is, you can just wiggle the scrollbar with your mouse or whatever, IMO.
I like the changes, though. If you want to see how big the page is, you can just wiggle the scrollbar with your mouse or whatever, IMO.
Funny how my post suggesting a mere 2GB was insufficient, was attacked with a vengeance, only to have it validated several weeks later. One thing I find entertaining in the Mac Eco system, there is never a lack of venom spewing characters.
Indeed. And the slider, as far as I can tell, is indistinguishable from consecutive buttons? If they're going to do this they should at least make the slider visually distinguishable - show it on rails or something (or better yet, just use buttons).
Thank goodness you can revert to the original Dashboard. Do you have a screenshot of it? I hate the new one.
It also doesn't mean that others disagree, either. Personally, I don't care about the use of swear words and other words that are considered offensive to some, but the common use of such have a tendency to imply a lack of education and morals of the user.
This is pretty funny.
The OS is supposed to fade into the background. I don't need electric blue start menus with a multi color logo encased in a gel circle to fell like my OS has "evolved."
When I am doing work or anything for that matter, I don't care about my OS. It needs to enable me to do things and not distract me.
Everyone is so concerned with aesthetics and not practicality these days. I am glad you are not a UI designed on the Mac OS team.
That depends on what you call 'flexibility'. Anything that makes use more difficult for the user may be 'flexibility' in your definition, but if you start with simplicity for the average user and include deeper layers to give move control to more skilled individuals is REAL flexibility. That's something you don't yet see in other operating systems.
Now that the new MacBook Pros are out with Thunderbolt, you're going to have to change your sig line. Thunderbolt leapfrogs USB 3 not only in speed but in functionality and it's the latest tech. Can't argue about bluray though.
Not sure, but for those of you looking for the video, this might be it...
http://www.appleinsider.com/article..._lion_new_window_controlsgestures.html&page=2
http://www.appleinsider.com/article..._lion_new_window_controlsgestures.html&page=2
color
color is helpful. It can help you more easily distinguish/ find/ select icons and stuff. Just look at itunes. You can't immediately spot things by color anymore.. step down
color is helpful. It can help you more easily distinguish/ find/ select icons and stuff. Just look at itunes. You can't immediately spot things by color anymore.. step down
That's crazy talk -- it would make the feature unusable if you habitually have a lot of document windows open in one or more applications. What's the problem with CMD-TAB to get (quickly) to the application you're looking for, and then CMD-Tilde to cycle through the windows of that application?
If you're so unsure of what you're looking for that you don't know which application or document window you need, then Exposé -> All Windows is a better solution than using a keyboard shortcut to cycle through all the open windows on your computer.
Cheers
Jim
The Finder features seem to be available in Ubuntu's Nautilus Elementary since forever. I'm kind of surprised how much they're touting the Sidebar given how long Windows has had it.
Seems to be a really nice OS though.
Seems to be a really nice OS though.
Wow, after seeing the video my mind has been changed about a few things. I actually like the overlay scroll bars now. For some reason I had a mental image of a giant scrollbar appearing over a lighter gray background and gliding across the right side of the window. No idea where that came from.
I honestly really like the new scrollbars. To the people complaining about not being able to see the size of the page: when you change your file directory, the scrollbar(s) appear for a couple seconds. It really isn't that big of a deal and gives OS X a more polished and uncluttered look, IMO. It also moves further away from Aqua and more towards a unified interface. Also, the grayscale icons do look better and less cluttered, at least to me.
Of more note to me than the changed icons is that the traffic light and navigation icons have changed, which I don't mind. They look good.
I still hate the reverse scrolling, but meh. At least it's still an option. :\
I honestly really like the new scrollbars.
To the people complaining about not being able to see the size of the page: when you change your file directory, the scrollbar(s) appear for a couple seconds. It really isn't that big of a deal and gives OS X a more polished and uncluttered look, IMO. It also moves further away from Aqua and more towards a unified interface. Also, the grayscale icons do look better and less cluttered, at least to me.Of more note to me than the changed icons is that the traffic light and navigation icons have changed, which I don't mind. They look good.
I still hate the reverse scrolling, but meh. At least it's still an option. :\
I also like the scroll bars but wonder how things work for people who don't have a wheel on their mouse (especially for landscape scrolling which is still not common?).
*shrugs*
What I am wondering about is what they'll do about Front Row. AI said that it's removed but I hope not as I really liked Front Row! Nice easy way to access your iTunes content without needing to use a keyboard/mouse.
*shrugs*
What I am wondering about is what they'll do about Front Row. AI said that it's removed but I hope not as I really liked Front Row! Nice easy way to access your iTunes content without needing to use a keyboard/mouse.
I don't know why people are addressing this as a memory hog.
I am running Mac OS X Lion on the following configuration:
2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
2 GB Memory @ 1067MHz
Nvidia GeForce 9400M
Actually, these are base specs of Macbook Aluminium Unibody, Late 2008 edition.
Lion is definitely an improvement in speed and stability although there are some other issues that need to be addressed and I guess Apple are aware of those already.
There are almost 85 processes and close to 400 threads and following is a view from istatspro:
This is a beta build so I'm more than sure that Lion itself will be much more efficient than this.
I am running Mac OS X Lion on the following configuration:
2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
2 GB Memory @ 1067MHz
Nvidia GeForce 9400M
Actually, these are base specs of Macbook Aluminium Unibody, Late 2008 edition.
Lion is definitely an improvement in speed and stability although there are some other issues that need to be addressed and I guess Apple are aware of those already.
There are almost 85 processes and close to 400 threads and following is a view from istatspro:
This is a beta build so I'm more than sure that Lion itself will be much more efficient than this.
In that case, the scrollbar will be shown all the time. (There's an option, "Show scrollbars based on input device.")
Now, I'll confess to only minimal exposure to Vista, and none to Windows 7, but are you saying that double-clicking an image file in Windows launches a borderless fullscreen slideshow of all the images in same folder as the one you double-clicked? That would have to be the standard double-click behaviour for your statement above to be true.
Maybe it is true, but -- I'll be honest -- I expect an image file that I double-click to open in my image management/editing application of choice. Any other behaviour would seem very counter-intuitive to me.
Cheers
Jim
I never use Alt + TAB, but I do find it annoying that it doesn't make a difference between open windows. What if you have one application with 3 windows open on 3 separate spaces? I will just randomly bring you to one of the spaces. But luckily Zoom out of Spaces + Exposé is perfect so there is no complaint, but that's gone from Lion now.
