I think the iTunes look is a bit too plain as an Aqua replacement. I like the translucent black and white look that is used in stacks. Maybe something like that. Doesn't seem like we'll see an Aqua replacement in Snow Leopard though, unless they're keeping it really secret.
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What do you mean with "open file" finder differs? It's a slimmed down version of the real Finder, only used to pick files, nothing more. I agree it would be nice to have more options though, especially renaming files.
Fortunately, the Finder has been completely rewritten (from scratch!) in Cocoa. We can only assume they've used this situation to speed up the Finder considerably, because my biggest complaint is the (lack of) speed.
Check Path Finder which is so much faster (but has its drawbacks)
Do you mean like in windows? That idea doesn't really fit the paradigm of os x. Windows of mac applications do not constitute the entire application, unlike Windows application windows.
No, no, no, no, no...
This is one of the fundamental differences in UI that is much better on the Mac. I'm sorry, but an app that is always full-sized just harkens back to the DOS days. Yeah, I can have more than one app open, which wasn't possible under DOS, but having one window always maximized is not really any different from a usability standpoint.
There are some apps that work better at full screen on a laptop but right now, I have 10 apps open and only 2 are typically full-screen, my browser and my email. All the others are scaled to allow quick and easy access between them. And when I'm on a dual monitor set up, nothing is full screen.
Want 3 items to be added in Snow Leopard:
[1] * private browsing * to be a safari preference item.
[2] * reset safari * as a safari preference item upon logging out.
[3] A visual pie chart for how much memory remains in "About this Mac"
[1] * private browsing * to be a safari preference item.
[2] * reset safari * as a safari preference item upon logging out.
[3] A visual pie chart for how much memory remains in "About this Mac"
On 1, how is this different than the "Private browsing" option in the Safari menu?
I could see where 2 could be useful in some scenarios but the Reset option in the Safari menu.
I have Activity Monitor on my dock. 1 click and I see this info, plus a lot more. If it's in "About This Mac", it's still 1 click away. So, there are 2 of the 3 things you want already easily available.
Not sure that adding what you're saying is needed would be of much benefit when they are already easy to get to.
Oh, like that, sweet, that's pretty cool, guess that means that a 250GB drive will now finally be 250GB!
No, no, no, no, no...
This is one of the fundamental differences in UI that is much better on the Mac. I'm sorry, but an app that is always full-sized just harkens back to the DOS days. Yeah, I can have more than one app open, which wasn't possible under DOS, but having one window always maximized is not really any different from a usability standpoint.
There are some apps that work better at full screen on a laptop but right now, I have 10 apps open and only 2 are typically full-screen, my browser and my email. All the others are scaled to allow quick and easy access between them. And when I'm on a dual monitor set up, nothing is full screen.
Now that we have Spaces, that argument doesn't really count any more. I want full screen mail in 1 space, full screen RSS reader in another, and full screen TweetDeck in yet another.
Like most UI "enhancements," I hope there is a way to change this back. Measuring KB as 1000 bytes makes sense for network transfer speed, for example, but not for disk sizes. Because disk blocks are in multiples of 512 bytes it is much easier to tell how many blocks are being used if file sizes are measured that way.
A sidebar and an iTunes feature are welcome improvements, but I never use coverflow, only the sidebar has really been of any use, but it's a feature that Windows has had for how-long? Where are tabbed Finder windows? A visual clipboard space/drawer? Things like that would make the Finder vastly more useable.
Having to rely on the dock or Exposé when moving files around is tiresome and not as efficient as opening a Finder window with my common folders open as a set of tabs, and just dragging between them, besides which multiple windows gets messy fast, even with a second monitor.
Visual clipboard would let you drag something onto it, see what it is, and drag it out again once you've opened the window you want, removing the need to throw files onto your desktop and do it that way.
These are just two features that could really improve the Finder, much more than slight UI changes and small features, yet we never get them. Not to mention the Finder desperately needs to remember the bloody size I want my windows to be, instead of arbitrarily changing shape, and where the heck did the button go for setting a folder's view options to my system-default?
Then it's easy to make each one of those spaces with the apps full screen. But don't make all apps default to full screen as the op was suggesting.
Err, I was the op. I know what I was saying
Simply a menu option to make it full screen, not fake full screen where you still see the menubar and the dock/part of desktop.
Err, I was the op. I know what I was saying
Talk to the developers of the apps you use then, it's not an underlying issue with OS X as a dev can make their apps do that. (not that they should) I'd hate it if OS X started using fullscreen for most apps, the dock is just not a good enough window switcher for that.
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Would be nice to preset it to a no brainer rather than having to click on private browsing each time I open Safari.
re: Activity Monitor on your desktop: would be nice to have a clear visual aid for when I need to check available memory.
Would be nice to preset it to a no brainer rather than having to click on private browsing each time I open Safari.
re: Activity Monitor on your desktop: would be nice to have a clear visual aid for when I need to check available memory.
Err, I was the op. I know what I was saying
erp, sorry.
I looked back at the thread and saw a different posting of mine and thought someone else made that. Silly moi....The only thing I see where this wouldn't work is that the menu bar will still be there.
No it doesn't GeekTool is basically infinitely customizable. Sure you can make a million ugly geektool scripts, but you can definitely make a nice looking script.
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Apple had this exactly right in 10.4 (Tiger) but someone at Apple was hell-bent on fixing something that wasn't broken. We got a few concessions to the 10.4 model in later versions of Leopard but here it is back again. This is what Microsoft does (banging on a bad idea long enough and hard enough where people just give up criticizing it). This is not what made Apple great in the UI space.
This pet project needs to get "Steved" -- right now -- even if it is Steve's idea.
Apple had this exactly right in 10.4 (Tiger) but someone at Apple was hell-bent on fixing something that wasn't broken. We got a few concessions to the 10.4 model in later versions of Leopard but here it is back again. This is what Microsoft does (banging on a bad idea long enough and hard enough where people just give up criticizing it). This is not what made Apple great in the UI space.
This pet project needs to get "Steved" -- right now -- even if it is Steve's idea.
what do you mean a few concessions? maybe its too long since a i used tiger but i thought you could set it to work pretty much like it did in tiger