Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview 2 Brings New Look for iCal

[jaster2]

Lack of pleather is not the problem with iCal

Let's see. How about putting back the option to have alarm alerts turned off if iCal is closed but still on if opened. Anyone who ever uses their laptop for presentations would be so happy to have that feature back. How about putting back the ability to click once on an item in Month view and seeing details. Seriously. Is the point to keep taking away functions and make it look super hokey?

 

[asleitz]

Wood Trim

Next the Pinto is going to make a come back with the wood trim

 

[spydr]

Chill people. This is simply an adoption of the iPad calendar which hasn't really raised any objections of this scale before. Now in an attempt to unify the look and feel, whether you like it or not, this move is going to happen.

I for one, asked for this on the very first day I got my iPad — I couldn't wait for when my desktop calendar would look that polished and pretty, but yet with all the features if not more. Glad to know it is coming soon.

 

[Stellarola]

Heinous. Absolutely hideous.

And I'm a fan of eye candy.

The faux leather is almost as bad as this "Marble" OS X mockup, from back in the day:

I'm calling B.S. on this photo. That image isn't from Apple. Prove me wrong, please.

-Stell

 

[slffl]

I LOVE the new design. And this is also why I love Apple. They don't listen to all of the whiners who hate change like some companies do. They let their designer and engineers do what they do best. If Apple listened to all of the complainers here over the years, we'd have Windows, on a Dell PC, with a Palm Treo in a holster on our belt.

Personally I like the iPad iCal design better than in OSX and I'm looking forward to this in Lion.

 

[grahamnp]

That is butt ugly. I should just retain the unified window appearance and make all the modifications inside the window instead.

 

[evil89]

Ugly...

I don't want an iPad on my Mac, please.

 

[satkin2]

No having a Lion preview I can't say for sure, but I would imagine this will look odd if windowed along side other windows with a different UI. However the push from Apple appears to be for full screen apps. You'd simply switch your app and the whole screen shows what your working on.

In full screen mode I can see how this iCal UI would work, it will be like having your whole screen as a calendar. I can only really see an issue when working with side by side windows. No matter how much Apple push thier ideas, some people will prefer to work this way.

To be honest I couldn't care what it looks like. Its the abilities of the programme that matter to me. If there are new features introduced that make iCal a better programme then great. The UI is ultimately just superficial to the abilities the programme offers the user.

 

[JLL]

I thought that the inverse scrolling was a bug, but in Lion Dev Preview 2 it is still there

It's user selectable.

 

[Gugulino]

It's done on purpose because we've been used to backwards scrolling all these years. Why should a mouse's scroll wheel control the scroll bar, and not the page you want to scroll? When you think about it, it's kind of silly to add that extra layer of abstraction when you don't need it.

Now it's been corrected - it takes almost no time to get used to it. Embrace it, and you'll be ok.

Yes, you are right! It is more natural… And you can even deactivate it in the trackpad settings, as JLL said. Not bad! It is difficult to go back to Snow Leo, where the scrolling goes with the scroll bar. Anyway, I will keep both ways of scrolling. Makes my brain flexible

 

[McKs]

this iPad-ness of Lion

this iPad-ness of Lion has me a bit worried. I don't want my interface looking like some cheap toy.
Hope they'll come up with something classier to match the hardware

 

[G4DP]

Unfortunately this is the chintzy sort of rubbish that the iSheep love. So it's probably here for good.

Nice one Arn with the April fool's stuff.

 

[SaxPlayer]

That is really horrible. I think it's so awful that I'm at a loss to find suitably cutting adjectives to describe just how dreadful it is.

 

[LightSpeed1]

Please no brown. Stick with gray please.

 

[organerito]

My baby boy just pooped and it it is just about the same color of it.

 

[Compile 'em all]

My baby boy just pooped and it it is just about the same color of it.

You sir, just won 9000 internets for this post. Congrats!

 

[MrKimber]

Hope Apple focuses on iCal functionality

Ascetics aside, I hope Apple plans to address some functionality shortcomings (like reoccurring To Do entries).

 

[shervieux]

I'll agree with many..

That may be ok in iOS and on my iPad as it is easy to use with touch technology, but as more and more business professionals are adopting mac laptops, iMacs or Mac Pros - that is very unprofessional looking to be on a potential business computer. I know Apple wants to be uniform across devices and we are moving closer and closer to everything being iOS as the main operating system. But seriously, businesses will think that is not professional and we are going back to the non-uniform weird looking DOS-based application days. It is true, there is no uniforminality in the apps in the app store. It is having a consistent UI that made it easier for everyone to adopt Windows back in the day. Every application had the same looking and functionality in the GUI; so there was no learning curve.

That iCal may be easy to use, but is unprofessional looking for potential business computers. Also, many people use ical as it integrates so well with other applications. I still say combine Apple Mail, iCal, and address book into 1 application - so I do not have to have 3 apps open taking up screen space and using more resources. That is what we have in Windows and Linux.

AND KEEP IT PROFESSIONAL LOOKING!

As from what people are posting on the new iCal and Apple Mail, I am afraid the OS is becoming less business intuitive, less functionality, less uniforminality among apps. Something that may hurt Apple more with trying to integrate into the business world.

With the old iCal, I can choose what events I want to see. I can have separate calendars for items, etc. I have several apps that have their own calendar in ical - which allows me turn on or off viewing them with a check box.

edit - Although I am looking forward to a uniformed iChat.

 

[shervieux]

So how about a to-do list, hey Apple?

Oh you are so right!! This loses the to-do list in iCal, thus why I had to buy a to-do list app just to sync my to-do's on iphone/iPad. Hope this does not mean a separate to-do list in OS X. Now instead of having 3 apps always open (ical, mail, address book) - it will be 4. What a resource hog.

Even MS's new office (although with it's problems) on the windows side incorporates collaboration through chat, email, etc within apps. Time to unify iCal, mail, address book, to-do, ichat, and facetime into one nice integrated app to provide easier workflow and collaboration. Or maybe keep facetime / ichat separate for the new unified app - but allow for clicking and auto-launching to communicate with someone right from your unified (ical,address book, mail, to-do app).

I think that would be a boon for apple and even easier to get into businesses.

C'Mon Apple - look to how the user operates. Everything needs to be right in front of us to same time and improve workflows...

 

[Azathoth]

The new look gives the appearance of a physical desktop calendar with leather binding along the top edge, and like the iPad application shows remnants of torn-off pages for additional realism.

I'm glad Apple isn't wasting their time on pointless eye-candy that they will tout amongst the 30,000 improvements that Lion will bring. Oh wait...


Apart from the new aesthetics being debatable, there are just so many other things that need fixing in SL (e.g. SMB sharing is terribly slow, random beachballing, the Finder, root permissions changing, wireless network settings messing up after a while++), that I wish they would concetrate on those...

 

[tkermit]

there are just so many other things that need fixing in SL (e.g. SMB sharing is terribly slow, random beachballing, the Finder, root permissions changing, wireless network settings messing up after a while++), that I wish they would concetrate on those...

I don't think the designers would be busy writing SMB code, if they weren't working on iCal's UI.

 

[ghostlines]

Goofy

C'mon Apple keep it professional and unified. Man they should stick to working on the user experience and internals, not goofy color schemes and such. OS X already looks cool they don't need to make it look kiddy now!

 

[Tanguyvd]

Someone mentioned the Windows 3.1 calendar?

oh yes, this totally nails it!

i kind of like the new UI, however, i do more like the lay-out
not so much the torn paper edges and faux-leather...
i truly hope switching back to "classic" view is still there...

 

[orangerizzla]

That is really ugly... Is it my imagination or has the general design @ Apple been going a bit haywire recently?

 

[sinser]

Lol, it's really, really ugly. Looks horrible to me and has nothing to do with the minimal Apple look I love. Reminds me of those GTK apps running on old Linux distros.