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Mac OS X Lion: 'Classic' Mail View Available, New Finder on Video
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Wait... What was that revolutionary new feature that Steve boasted about?
Wait... What was that revolutionary new feature that Steve boasted about?
Stop going back
I understand why someone might want classic, but I don't like it. I want the lightest, cleanest, easiest OS. I use mail.app and I look forward to the changes. They seem to make an email client that is more about writing emails than how a program looks. I like the lack of color it makes the program blend into the background while still making the buttons visible when you need them.
My point is that if Apple is going to have classic in the system I wish you could not install it. Again I want light, clean, easy.
I understand why someone might want classic, but I don't like it. I want the lightest, cleanest, easiest OS. I use mail.app and I look forward to the changes. They seem to make an email client that is more about writing emails than how a program looks. I like the lack of color it makes the program blend into the background while still making the buttons visible when you need them.
My point is that if Apple is going to have classic in the system I wish you could not install it. Again I want light, clean, easy.
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Where is this?
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/29/apple-job-posting-suggests-revolutionary-new-mac-os-x-feature/
Where is this?
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/29/apple-job-posting-suggests-revolutionary-new-mac-os-x-feature/
Do people think I should get 8GB RAM if I want to run 10.7 well?
I am in the market for a new Macbook and I want a MBA.
But I worry that the C2D or 1.8GHz with only 4GB RAM may limit me with Lion.
Should I hold off and wait until more is known about Lion or will the current MBA be fully compat and not sluggish?
Also, what about the constant saving of documents and versions? How is that handled on the MBA with only 128GB SSD? It seems that SSD space is quite limited - or is this not likely to be an issue?
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I think it will be fine. The MBA will run lion great. And documents use so little disc space
zub3qin said:
I think it will be fine. The MBA will run lion great. And documents use so little disc space
what's with them washing out all colour from every sidebar? I can't believe that apple of all people, with all their understanding and flair for interface, would make all sidebars so hard to read by taking out any colour coding... I sure hope there's a revert option for this too...although I wonder why people will have to revert to get some decent functionality out of sidebars.
Sidebars already have small icons and text as is, why should they be made in colour?
This to me is just change for changes sake with very negative results....
Sidebars already have small icons and text as is, why should they be made in colour?
This to me is just change for changes sake with very negative results....
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I was remembering the story wrong, til I went back to look it up.
Sky Blue said:
I was remembering the story wrong, til I went back to look it up.
I'll probably get slammed for this but I was hoping for mail/cal/addy integration in some way. I may be a minority in this, but I think mail is such a weak link in OSX, and forces me to use outlook at the same time with work.
Mailhub is a great add on on SL and allows me to shoot a mail to a folder with a click. But seriously, this looks very similar to the same old mail with some different window variations.
Back to point, why don't they integrate them all in one? Mail cal and address that is?
Mailhub is a great add on on SL and allows me to shoot a mail to a folder with a click. But seriously, this looks very similar to the same old mail with some different window variations.
Back to point, why don't they integrate them all in one? Mail cal and address that is?
love the new finder and it's hidden elements. Very cool. Love that Quickview now has a 'view in preview' button. Have always wanted that. My only criticism thus far is that it all looks rather drab. BIt of colour would have been nice. But funnily enough when the announced 'aqua' I complained that it looked too gimmicky. I spose this looks more pro and less consumer which is nice for a change.
I agree. I really hope Mail and iCal steps up. THey seem a bit abandoned and more or less an after thought.
Folks, they can be turned on permanently. Check System Preferences|Appearance|Scroll Bars
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Noticed that they change their website navigation bar to much darker color ?
Maybe it's a signal for total UI color change?
macduke said:
Noticed that they change their website navigation bar to much darker color ?
Maybe it's a signal for total UI color change?
ditto
The scroll bars aren't just there to scroll around the document/window, they are there to show you at a glance where you are in that document. Goes directly against Apple's own human interface guidelines.
I hope that there is a setting somewhere to 'always display scroll bars', but I'm not confident of Apple giving us that choice.
And the disappearing hide/show controls is the same... the arrow was so much more obvious what it did and there all the time. Now you have to mouse over the area before you know there's a control there.
There best be a choice to restore colour to the finder GUI, I disliked the UI of iTunes 10 so much that I've kept 9.
Don't get too enthusiastic/upset now dudes. I doubt that the final version will resemble this. Remember when Safari 4's beta tabs looked like google chrome?
They sure are going out of their way to make the entire interface touch-friendly, to the point where some of these things are harder to use with a mouse than they were before. Somewhere is Cupertino people are hammering away on touch-screen Macs, ergonomics be damned. I only wonder how long they'll be in development.
Giant slider for time machine preferences, slider instead of buttons for finder views, full-screen apps, iOS scroll bars (ie touch scrollbars), Larger interface elements in newer apps like iPhoto, scaling windows from all corners, touch-sized mail list in mail, Launchpad, etc.
It's clear they see touch in the Mac future, despite what they've said.
Giant slider for time machine preferences, slider instead of buttons for finder views, full-screen apps, iOS scroll bars (ie touch scrollbars), Larger interface elements in newer apps like iPhoto, scaling windows from all corners, touch-sized mail list in mail, Launchpad, etc.
It's clear they see touch in the Mac future, despite what they've said.
I'm not too convinced on this file categorisation. It just looks messy and inconvenient. I cannot imagine that I would use it in its current state. In addition, I'm actually disappointed that there haven't been any approaches on tabs in Finder. I usually have multiple windows open, and still have to switch between them by using Exposé. I also dislike the grey icons in the sidebar. I would appreciate if Apple maintains colored and grey versions and assigns them to either the colored or graphite appearance in System Preferences.
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Maybe they should bring classic back altogether. And ppc support, I mean really they had to drop it so fast? The last ppc Mac was sold in like 2006 right? So now we can't do anything with old macs anymore. Either way, there needs to be a reverse Rosetta.
Maybe they should bring classic back altogether. And ppc support, I mean really they had to drop it so fast? The last ppc Mac was sold in like 2006 right? So now we can't do anything with old macs anymore. Either way, there needs to be a reverse Rosetta.
What they're aiming at is . . .
They're not targeting Lion at touch screen devices, they're targeting it at trackpads.
Trackpads are the sole input for MacBooks and MacBook Pros. For iMacs and Mac Pros, the mouse is currently used for 90% to 95% of input. But Apple has introduced the new Magic Trackpad, which essentially changes the desktop mice interface into a laptop-style trackpad interface (but for your desktop).
Apple sees a future where normal people use trackpads to interact with OS X, whether it's on a laptop or desktop. There will be a small group of professionals (probably including you) who need the precision of the mouse or can't make the transition to the trackpad.
They're not targeting Lion at touch screen devices, they're targeting it at trackpads.
Trackpads are the sole input for MacBooks and MacBook Pros. For iMacs and Mac Pros, the mouse is currently used for 90% to 95% of input. But Apple has introduced the new Magic Trackpad, which essentially changes the desktop mice interface into a laptop-style trackpad interface (but for your desktop).
Apple sees a future where normal people use trackpads to interact with OS X, whether it's on a laptop or desktop. There will be a small group of professionals (probably including you) who need the precision of the mouse or can't make the transition to the trackpad.
