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Mac OS X Lion Notes: iOS Scroll Bars, Any Corner Resizing, Dock Changes

Mal said:
Nope, certainly not with many applications. After all, most applications don't require you to have a window open to be running, doing some type of tasking. ...

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However, the idea of simply not knowing if an app is running or not isn't a huge deal, but I would propose Apple may consider a third option: App indicators that show the actual action being performed. ...

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For a good example of this, look at Transmission. I don't really need to see the app indicator to see if it's open and working, because it puts a badge on the icon indicating upload and download rates. If every app had this, then the app indicator lights would be become basically irrelevant.

jW
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I think this is a very good point. I would guess that for most people this would be more useful. Implemented well, you could see that Skype or Transmission or whatever was in Offline mode and connect your computer to the network without worrying whether it would start doing things in the background, for example.

It might be hard to have consistency here, since the visual indicator would probably be different for each program.
 
I've been wondering for years why we have to have apps "running" or not, and why we have to "save" work.
 
Here's two examples:

- Plugins. You don't control if they're running or not. In the case of Flash, after watching a video, it will run for awhile and then hang my browser. I have to go into Activity Monitor to kill it.

- Auto-saving. How about the iPhoto library? There's plenty of "Where does iPhoto save my photos?" threads, let alone one for Pages, Keynote, Textedit, etc.

cmd+tab, cmd+q and in 1 second, you have killed the app and it doesn't drain any more resources.

cmd+s and in 1 second, the file is saved how you want it and where you want it. Autosaving occurs as a backup if you forget to do this.
 
My guess is that there will be some other kind of indication that an aplication is currently running, such as an animated icon for the running ones or dimmed icons for closed applications.
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One thing that I haven't heard mentioned is that the dock may not be a "dock" anymore. The lights are needed if the dock is where we store shortcuts to frequently launched apps. If, however, the intent was for apps to be "launched" from the "launchpad," then there would be no need to store the icons down there, and the ONLY icons that would appear would be the ones associated with apps that are currently running.

It is easy to assume that since we have put shortcuts down there for so long that we always will, but it seems to ee that the dock is being re-purposed in Lion. With LanuchPad and multi-touch, the dock really does seem unnecessary.
 
I'm a retoucher and I'm usually on my computer for work, so I use a Wacom pen to get around Snow Leopard. I only have a medium size desk and it'd just be crazy to keep switching to my magic mouse as I switch between Photoshop and other apps.

I'm worried that Apple are making the navigation more and more complex, and very dependent on gestures etc.. I really think Lion looks good, but I just hope there is decent support/options for non-gesture users.
 
Apples way of saying the OS is faster.
Your apps will be already running so when you click on them you will say" WOW the OS has quicker loading times"
 
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