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OS X Snow Leopard 10A402 Brings Visual Tweaks and Other Enhancements
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He's not talking about the workspace, just the overhyped imaginary "Marble" theme.
Much more looking forward to the upcoming Iridium interface:
Looks fanstastic! But I didnt found any mention about it, is that real?
What Apple needs to change in the interface of iTunes is the giant section at the top that display playback, syncing, and other information. It looks like like a dot matrix display from an old nintendo gameboy. Needs a BIG facelift (should look more like the iPhone's playback controls whole listening to music).
Not sure this is what you're looking for...
And make it a color thing? That would look terrible with the grayish theme OS X has now. If we had Marble, and Marble brought black windows (which I wouldn't like) then it would good.
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Much more looking forward to the upcoming Iridium interface:
Gross.
Does anyone here care about practicality or do you guys only consider looks?
Come on, guys.
Not too harsh.
It's like donating money to your favorite football club. Like paying too much money to Manchester United via buying a new home-shirt at the shop inside the stadium.
You KNOW you are paying far too much money for something you can get a lot cheaper... but you want to pay for it...
He is simply enthusiastic! And he is willing to pay more for something he really wants.
It's amazing how many people took that comment seriously...EVEN if he wanted he wouldn't be able to pay more to Apple...they would send the check back to his house. Go figure, people...
You do realize that the top picture (I'm pretty sure) is from the iTunes 8 visualizer, right?
It is somewhat annoying that Apple doesn't want you to touch anything when it comes to customizing OS X. Then again that leaves it open to anyone willing to use Terminal.
No sarcasm intended. And font smoothing is already available on Appearance...what gives?
I don't think they look bad at all.
But to answer your question, Apple uses Quartz for font smoothing, while Microsoft uses ClearType. Different font smoothing techniques, but both look fine on their respective platforms.
As for "font smoothing options," he's referring to how Leopard gave you various choices in terms of the amount of smoothing: heavy, medium, light, etc. But in Snow Leopard, you don't have that anymore. It's either on or off.
Of course, what does Windows have to do at all with this thread, which is about Snow Leopard?
Yep, search. Spotlight ALONE is worth more than any version of Windows...don't even remind of my Outlook searches when at work...finding a specific email is a mess.
Thanks for the info, I don't have SL here because SL doesn't exist yet. I think this is worth complaining only when the beast is out...not now when it's just an unreleased beta.
In Leopard, when you open the Appearance Preferences, on the bottom you can choose between font smoothing styles. Font Smoothing is done by using the sub-pixels (red, green, blue) inside every pixel for finer smoothing. Depending on your display type, you may need different font smoothing because your display has the red green and blue sub-pixels the other way around, or you're using a CRT with alternating pixel grids (actually, many HDTVs do that too).
Anyway, this option is very important for people using an external display in portrait mode (i.e. turned 90°). Makes the text sharper. The "ClearType" in windows doesn't really do it right and makes those green and pink artefacts and the text just looks blurry.
More about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
On a side note, I see no difference when changing the "Font smoothing style" in Leopard, neither on the Macbook's display, nor on the external. Maybe that's why they took it out?
It's nothing. It's just some "mythical" UI that people are convinced Apple is working on, which they aren't. All we are seeing are Aqua refinements, improvements and evolutions. People are kidding themselves with all this "Marble" talk.
I was taught in design 101 never use small white text on a darker background.
This, of course, is doubly true for any computers that might happen to have ultra-reflective glassy displays... a brighter background will cut down on reflections...