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OS X 10.10 to Feature 'Flatter' Look, but Not as Stark as iOS 7
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Mac OS 10.10 - or could apple have something else up its selves and go to OS11 or Go to OS X (letter X)
coloured Finder sidebar icons
Wish they'd bring back colour to the Finder sidebar icons…really hard to find what drive/folder you're looking for now. What a stupid change. Computers aren't black & white, fellas. Haven't been for a while.
EDIT - Oh yeah, that was a Mountain Lion change…anyway, completely unnecessary. There was a hack to fix it, but it stopped working in Mavericks I think.
Wish they'd bring back colour to the Finder sidebar icons…really hard to find what drive/folder you're looking for now. What a stupid change. Computers aren't black & white, fellas. Haven't been for a while.
EDIT - Oh yeah, that was a Mountain Lion change…anyway, completely unnecessary. There was a hack to fix it, but it stopped working in Mavericks I think.
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Then we need at least a 2 year release cycleI'm waiting for 10.10.10... The XXX edition
Maybe they should make it a significant update and announce OSX 11? Or would that mess up their new naming system?
What would be better is an OS X UI for professionals that looks professional, with light/dark adjustment, and an OS X UI for teenagers in flat candy-apple day-glow horse$#%^.
But, but, how???
By a little innovation we like to call, an "option". Perhaps Apple could try it sometime, with regard to such minor things as how everything on your entire computer looks. ...instead of just foisting a big ugly surprise on everyone unprepared to have their eyeballs scorched out of their heads first hing in the morning.
But, but, how???
By a little innovation we like to call, an "option". Perhaps Apple could try it sometime, with regard to such minor things as how everything on your entire computer looks. ...instead of just foisting a big ugly surprise on everyone unprepared to have their eyeballs scorched out of their heads first hing in the morning.
At this point if I were Microsoft the next time I had a presentation I would have posters reading, "Cupertino, start your photocopiers".
I guess shiny icons were trendy so no sin to make them flat in OSX. But don't lose functionality and reduce user experience like iOS 7. And stop taking away colors in OSX from menus and icons. I have cones and my brain wants to use them for information.
I guess shiny icons were trendy so no sin to make them flat in OSX. But don't lose functionality and reduce user experience like iOS 7. And stop taking away colors in OSX from menus and icons. I have cones and my brain wants to use them for information.
He's gotten leaks before and reported on them. This is just his guess based on the Macworld interview with Schiller and Federighi.
Personally I think iOS and OSX will have a similar look and feel but I think some of the starkness of iOS will be toned down.
Unfortunately, I could only up vote this once. +1,000,000
My server is stuck on GreenBytes last release of ZEVO and thus I'm also stuck on Mountain Lion. I'm now waiting for MacZFS to come up to speed (including the ability to import ZEVO pools).
A real filesystem that doesn't suffer silent bit rot/corruption and has modern features would be awesome. I actually emailed Tim about it, but no big surprise, he didn't respond, lol
Still, to most people who use OSX Use it as they don't understand computers as well and don't care about its model number. To them 10.10 will look like 10.1 and people will google that and see the old OSX not the new. Apple put in their 30 years mac ad that it's used because it uses the same language as humans. - imagine going into apple store and saying what operating system does this run and getting back "10.10 sir - the latest and greatest!" People will already lose interest as most people in school got taught of 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.1 and so on and not how developers number things! I can tell you now that OS10.10 seems to be too complex but OS10.9 doesn't!
I think OSX definitely could use some clean up to look a bit more modern. Some of the Linux Desktops make OSX feel antiquated. They got other issues though.
I kind of like the new direction the design team seems to be heading for. Ultimately it is a matter of taste and I always felt like my taste was more of a minority taste, so I have my doubts about how many Mac fans will take such a change or if they even dare to touch too much. The quote seems very cautious. It will probably be just a few changes and wait for reactions before any further moves. Not like iOS 7 that got a big overhaul. Probably barely noticeable at first.
I wouldn't mind a more substantial noticeable new modern look. It doesn't take that much. More quarer icons, lighter colors, less shadows or not quite as deep.
Loosing the candy land feel would help a lot.
I kind of like the new direction the design team seems to be heading for. Ultimately it is a matter of taste and I always felt like my taste was more of a minority taste, so I have my doubts about how many Mac fans will take such a change or if they even dare to touch too much. The quote seems very cautious. It will probably be just a few changes and wait for reactions before any further moves. Not like iOS 7 that got a big overhaul. Probably barely noticeable at first.
I wouldn't mind a more substantial noticeable new modern look. It doesn't take that much. More quarer icons, lighter colors, less shadows or not quite as deep.
Loosing the candy land feel would help a lot.
How about some under the hood changes that might actually make a difference to people? Crossfire support, btrfs, bring back lost features like graphical ftp setup etc. Why do they keep dumbing down os x, when they say that there's no plan to converge iOS and OS X?
Alson their iApps all need a major rollback. And Aperture is overdue for an update that brings it up to par with the competition.
Alson their iApps all need a major rollback. And Aperture is overdue for an update that brings it up to par with the competition.
I don't know about others on here, but I've never relied solely upon an operating system to keep me busy or entertained. It's supped to be a largely unobtrusive facilitator for me to get actual work done, or to permit me to find my own form of entertainment and excitement.
If someone has to rely on the OS to keep them from getting "bored," then their usage paradigm needs to be reconsidered here.
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No, but everybody thought Airdrop would work cross platform. Unfortunately this didn't happen, but it's nice to read that Apple wants to implement it.
