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

Gag me with a spoon, this is freaking hideous.

Apple might think this kind of stuff works on iOS (it doesn't) but keep it well away from my desktop.

I mean, for a company with such fantastic, slick hardware design, they sure to churn out some vomit inducing representational software designs.
 
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what will the month view look like?

Does anyone know what the month view will look like with this new update to lion...screenshots please.
 
bman1209 said:
Can someone confirm there isn't going to be a to-do list in Lion? This is ridiculous!
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Before I scare everyone, maybe I need to get my facts straight... is there one? I certainly couldn't find any on the iOS version, which is why I bought a program called Todo (by Appigo) to handle that functionality on my iPad. Since I'm on the go far more often than I'm at my desk, this is where I've been keeping my to-do items. That and Google Calendar.

So I guess what I'm really asking for is integrated to-do list support on the iOS calendar.
 
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espressoroast said:
The rest of the design is not so bad but I wish Apple would get over the urge to make things look like their physical incarnations. I know there is a name for this but it escapes me at the moment.
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Retarded carp, I think is the phrase.

The page layout is nice.

The tacky stuff at the top on the other. I thought Apple wanted to get away from carp for carps sake?
 
to chime in with the choir...

way to go prioritizing cartoony graphics to chew up my valuable screen real estate instead of giving me something useful like a to-do list.

seriously...why does apple insist on making me use clunky-ass Outlook just to have an integrated email/calendar/to-do workflow? it's the simplest and most obvious feature hole to fill!

does anyone here actually find their "task" implementation useful at all?
 
Truffy said:
Making it look different won't make it better. They should address the usability/functionality, sure.
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It looks like they have. It you've used the iPads calendar app, it's much better than what we have in OSX. I mean, finally an agenda view!
 
I love these new UI touches.

But UI changes are not enough for me to spend $129 on alone. If it were $29 like Snow Leopard was, then that'd be different, but I highly doubt that'll happen this time around. Let's see some real features (ones that haven't been mentioned yet).
 
macaddiict said:
That is really, really ugly. Like, really ugly. I cannot imagine having that brown turd interface open on my second monitor all day... blargh!
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lol, brown turd, that's exactly what it looks like... horrible!
 
I hope the gratuitous orange UI can be turned off. Especially that stitching. And get rid of the torn paper too, sheesh. Talk about taking a metaphor too far.

At least give an option for a black or dark brown dyed leather effect - who would buy a mid-70s style tan leather thing these days?

It's one thing on an iPad where it's full screen and it's like holding a real calendar in your hand. It's not the same on a computer monitor. And I can't doodle on the blank bits of paper either.

It might be nice to integrate event invitations in Apple Mail with Apple Calendar too, without that intermediate 'save to downloads folder' step. Sure, there's 'smart filters' that can pick out the date in the email too but they're not immediately obvious. In fact, Mail and Calendar integration is rather poor overall.
 
TurtleDragon said:
way to go prioritizing cartoony graphics to chew up my valuable screen real estate instead of giving me something useful like a to-do list.
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Oh Apple Mail has a To Do list. And Notes. But the Calendar is a separate app, as is the Address Book. So why not also have a separate To Do and Notes application? Oh, because they're stored as special formatted email messages in Mail.app, that's why. So how about integrating Calendar and Address Book better in Mail. It's a mess.
 
I actually kind of like it. I think those of you complaining about the new look are forgetting some things.

Yes, there is a need to make apps look and function similarly, so that the user can find his/her way around, and iCal does that. All the buttons are similar, and they reside in similar, if not exactly the same positions as before.

BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE ALL PROGRAMS LOOK IDENTICAL!!! Why? because then you get confused as to which freaking program you're looking at! Remember when iTunes started looking exactly like Finder? That was crazy confusing. People who understand GUI creation know that to be efficient, your eye needs nicely defined targets, and if that nicely defined target happens to be a leather-textured header bar rather than the same freaking gray as every other program, then so be it.

And gosh, it actually a pretty good texture. It's not harkening back to the crappy jpeggy/giffy textures of Windows 3.1. (Though as an aside, I find it strange that Apple is trying to push the "full-screen" apps ala EVERY SINGLE WINDOWS INCARNATION as some sort of innovation.)

Edit: Though true to some comments, a nice, real looking, darker leather would be better than orange.
 
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Next 4 Weeks?

Are there custom view options like "Next Four Weeks" in this version? That's the only thing keeping me with Google Calendar. It's March 31, why should I be looking at 30 days of events that happened already?
 
I would much rather see something that better resembles the mobile me calendar, much cleaner.
 
Firstly, I'd be very surprised if this was Gold Master considering how early it is and I was expecting there to be a few UI updates prior to its release given that the Leopard look is quite old now.

But now they've given us this, a hark back to the whole brushed metal fiasco of early Mac OS X, where there was a mixture of ghastly brushed metal and aqua (yes and that brushed metal Finder ;)). The original reasoning behind the brushed metal was that it was supposed to be reserved for things like iTunes, where certain apps were supposed to resemble their physical counterparts (sound familiar?) but then Apple had to keep amending the UI Interface rules to cover off its many own violations!

Something tells me we're not done yet. Expect Address Book to be the next to 'go leather'. And I wouldn't be surprised if that was it.

From what I remember, Leopard looked like Tiger did for most of its development, before a release just prior to Gold Master made everything the dark grey gradient as you see today. It wouldn't surprise me if the end Lion product looks nothing like the Leopard/Snow Leopard look that you see right now.

When Steve said he wanted to see more of the iPad on Mac OS X, at least we now know he wasn't kidding ;)
 
I kinda like it I guess, after all that has always been the Apple way, they coined the term "Desktop" with Lisa because they were trying to emulate the stuff you had on your desk (When demonstrating Lisa Write they described creating a new document as "tearing off a clean sheet of paper"), BUT like others, I like having my neat, clean PC interface for my calender, hopefully there will be a "classic" mode.

-John
 
Windows 3.1

Someone mentioned the Windows 3.1 calendar?

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