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OS X Snow Leopard 10A402 Brings Visual Tweaks and Other Enhancements

MisterK said:
I really like where this Snow Leopard look is going. I think Apple is going to hold out on the major overhaul to the UI, though. I was disappointed at first, but now I think it was a good idea for them to wait for Win7 and then take a year to try and out GUI it in every way they can.

This one might make you think I'm crazy, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple pulled a Quicktime on the whole OS and had the menu bars hide themselves when you mouse off a window. Now THAT is minimalist. They'd need to show the folder name still, of course.. just get rid of anything extraneous when you're not mousing onto a window.

I would like to add my name to the list of people asking for a Finder cut/paste. I'd also like to add a Windows-like address bar, so I can tell someone on my network "hey, you can find my file here "p://projects/awesomeaccount/graphics" (and they can click that to take them to my file, without repeating my click by click trip to a certain folder). Maybe building SVN into the Finder would be a better solution, but I don't see that happening, either.

So yeah... yay Marble, yay aesthetic changes, and yay under the hood improvements. Cheers!
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Finally it's getting out there and it's not just an internal desire for all mac users.
Cut and paste was publicized so much for the iphone that apple finally gave in, and they are soo much better that they did. WE WANT CUT AND PASTE FOR FINDER OR AT LEAST APPEND WHEN COPYING FOLDERS SO THAT WE DON'T LOSE OUR FILES.

I'm so pissed off that i lost my files thinking that the most obvious thing ('append') was not so obvious when copying folders. (this was before time machine) I gave apple a lot of money lately and i've gotten awesome products, but my needs have not been met. I feel like i've bought a $1000 table tennis set but i got an egged ping pong ball and i'm begging for the supplier to throw in just a good average ping pong ball and they just refuse and ignore me.

Please help me spread the word and post on all forums that we want better finder functionality on par with every file browser on the market (yes, even the free hackzor versions have we are all looking for)! Yes, even back to as early as windows 3.1 had cut, paste and append. I'm pretty sure that just one of their programers can knock this up in 1-2 weeks so i'm not asking for much given that they have 29 billion dollars reserves.

Spread the word, start petitions, march on washington, send fliers, we all want it, some need it, and all of us would at least love the option in settings to just click a check box to enable it if apple does not want it as default.
 
timshundo said:
So yeah. I'm gonna say just go download it and give it a try as long as you know you'll be purchasing it in the end. That's how we retain trust with Apple. They took out the serial numbers for iLife and iWork, didn't they? :)
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Shame on you - are you not aware?

THAT'S STEALING :rolleyes:

At least I'm moralistic and altruistic enough to drop by the post office each day to deposit .44 for each and every e-mail I send out online. The nerve of these relentless scofflaws, blatantly bypassing and stealing the profits rightfully due to the USPS! :mad:
 
Change Request: spotlight right click?

Has anyone else ever wanted this? A contextual menu for the results shown in spotlight? It seems like a simple thing, but it's either, open the specific entry from spotlight or open a folder with ALL results.. I don't know.. Maybe that's too Windowsy :)
 
RobertCraigWils said:
Has anyone else ever wanted this? A contextual menu for the results shown in spotlight? It seems like a simple thing, but it's either, open the specific entry from spotlight or open a folder with ALL results.. I don't know.. Maybe that's too Windowsy :)
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Definitely. Most of the time I have to command-click it to show it in finder and then right click it. I think Spotlight needs an overhaul in general.
 
Yeah - I haven't looked extensively but the limited search results for that right click option don't yield anything.. Nothing third party, no terminal commands.. They'll pick it up.. It's too simple to not include!
 
Dragging an app to the trash from a stack DOES work, you just need to cmd+backspace 1 file from the finder, restore it, and then you can trash as many stuff from the stacks you want.

And, I think the Battery Charged icon in the menubar has changed, because it looks much more round. Another bug is that the grid view of the desktop doesn't work. Newly mounted drives however show up in the top-left corner of the screen with only 1 corner of the drive icon visible.

Also, the mouse freezes are solved.
 
Looking at that YouTube video of WMV playback, it looks as though Apple have developed their own WMV playback, or at least bought Flip4Mac and made it better, because it seems to be a lot quicker at loading and playing movies looking at that clip.

How far does the support for WMV go though? Could we even expect DRM support?
 
Quillz said:
Instant Search (first demonstrated by Microsoft in 2002 but taken to market first by Apple) ...
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instant search was also in Copland OS in 1995.
Had Copland been released, it would have been the first OS to provide live searches in the toolbar.

In the patent application for Spotlight, Apple appears to have used diagrams from Copland's interface. The Copland search tool indexed all files on the computer and allowed users to search for a specific string of text. It would display the results and even determine the relevancy according to the number of times the string appeared in the document.

Apple released the first beta version of Copland to developers in November 1995.
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Filevault seems to have had some architectural changes to. Seems the /Users/.USERNAME only appears on logon now it seems to be dynamically mounted on demand from somewhere else.
 
Nightkrawler said:
instant search was also in Copland OS in 1995.
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As odd as this may sound, I kind of miss those days. I loved System 7-7.5 on my pizza box PowerPC 6100/60. Mac gaming wasn't bad at all back then . . . when Mac games were ported over to Windows. Yes, there was a time when that actually happened. ;)

I remember unboxing my 6100/60 and then firing it up for the first time and thought System 7 was just brilliant. Picked up a copy of Myst soon after and I was in computing heaven. Good times.
 
Since a lot of you people here are trying it, what can you tell me about Quicktime X hardware h.264 acceleration? Is it true that it is supported by 9400M alone (as stated on SL page) or it DOES (noticeably) work with 9600gt, gt120, gt130, ati4850, ecc.? Can you try to play an heavy 1080p mkv (with perian?) coded in h.264?
 
*LTD* said:
As odd as this may sound, I kind of miss those days. I loved System 7-7.5 on my pizza box PowerPC 6100/60. Mac gaming wasn't bad at all back then . . . when Mac games were ported over to Windows. Yes, there was a time when that actually happened. ;)

I remember unboxing my 6100/60 and then firing it up for the first time and thought System 7 was just brilliant. Picked up a copy of Myst soon after and I was in computing heaven. Good times.
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Yep, good times indeed...me and my pizza box Quadra 605 with System 7 and then 8, the beginnings of Internet and the heyday of BBSs, excellent Mac games that were later ported to Windows (top among them were Marathon, Marathon II, Realmz). A time when computing was simpler.
 
BRLawyer said:
Yep, good times indeed...me and my pizza box Quadra 605 with System 7 and then 8, the beginnings of Internet and the heyday of BBSs, excellent Mac games that were later ported to Windows (top among them were Marathon, Marathon II, Realmz). A time when computing was simpler.
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Yadayada move over grandad(s). Make a new thread someplace and go reminisce on "the good old days" there will ya;)?
 
Nitrocide said:
Yadayada move over grandad(s). Make a new thread someplace and go reminisce on "the good old days" there will ya;)?
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Hehe, and it wasn't even called "Mac OS" back then!

Anyway, excuse me while I go look at my Stylewriter II that I've lovingly preserved . . . ;)
 
Nightkrawler said:
instant search was also in Copland OS in 1995.
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Indeed, and it's actually quite interesting just how long Apple has been in this arena. Despite Copland being canned, a lot of the proposed technology actually was seeded into Mac OS 8.5 and 9 by way of Sherlock. Spotlight really is a culmination of iterative improvements to shipping technologies, based on Doug Cutting and the ATG Information Access Group's project, V-Twin, that date back to '96.

In 1996, Apple first shipped (see section 3.3) betas of Apple e.g., which allowed easy indexing of Apple web servers. Sherlock also used it when it was introduced in Mac OS 8.5 in 1998. It was exposed as an API by way of Apple Information Access Toolkit, and, in Panther, by means of Search Kit.

Of course, I'm not asserting that 1996's product is anything near what Spotlight is, but Apple really has been refining that end of their search for quite a long time, and a lot of what they set out to do in Copland for search actually did ship prior to Mac OS X. But, then, I'm sure it's just been a natural progression, and I'm sure Microsoft had been making similar iterative improvements to search.
 
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