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Snow Leopard Adds Minor Often Requested Tweaks: Put Back, Stack Folder Navigation
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Wow, the put back feature, the ability to drill down in files in a stack. People are getting excited about this?!
Looks like I can skip Snow Leopard. I know, I know, the major improvements are under the hood, man. But I can do everything I want now, Leopard is now stable enough, there aren't any neat new features that I can see. Personnally, I hope it takes Apple a long time before Snow Leopard comes out. I'm going to try to squeeze as much time as I can out of Leopard. Personally, I would be more excited about 10.5.7. I hope Apple isn't putting effort into SL at the expense of the next upgrade to 10.5.
Looks like I can skip Snow Leopard. I know, I know, the major improvements are under the hood, man. But I can do everything I want now, Leopard is now stable enough, there aren't any neat new features that I can see. Personnally, I hope it takes Apple a long time before Snow Leopard comes out. I'm going to try to squeeze as much time as I can out of Leopard. Personally, I would be more excited about 10.5.7. I hope Apple isn't putting effort into SL at the expense of the next upgrade to 10.5.
Oh. Disregard my other comment, then. I was referring to Trash restoring.
I personally like the "one click, it's gone, too bad" mindset. If you're storing files in the Trash that you don't want trashed, why are you storing them there? What's wrong with you?
We mere mortals have been known to make the (albeit occasional) mistake. ^^
I think "put back" is a useful feature; I've never really found Stacks all that useful, though I do have an Application stack (in menu form) in my dock (I recognize it's Start button like, but it's better than having a hundred non-opened applications in the dock - gross!).
i'd still love a totally black Mac OS. white/light gray is ugly, causes eyestrain and wastes more energy
Install nocturne. It's from the same devs as Quicksilver and basically makes your Mac interface darker. It Inverts the screen, but then corrects the colors, disables the shadows, etc... makes a Macbook nicer to use when super tired or in direct sunlight.
PS: LDCs actually need more power to display a black image than a bright image. When no power is applied to a subpixel's transistor(s), the crystal is turned so it lets all light through (pixel = white). The more power you apply to the pixel, the more it turns to let the backlight pass through. The difference is negligible though, you probably save more power by turning the brightness (backlight) down just one notch.
You're right for CRTs thought ;-)
Snow Leopard 10A261
On this italian forum have been posted some photos of Snow Leopard:
http://italiamac.com/forum/showthread.php?t=300939&page=19
On this italian forum have been posted some photos of Snow Leopard:
http://italiamac.com/forum/showthread.php?t=300939&page=19
I do agree with this. I think Undo could be made "smarter" by being context-sensitive, and apply it to the selected item (file or folder). So if you had the Trash window open (which you need to do to use "Put Back"), but nothing selected, it would undo the last Trash operation. Or you could select an individual file and "undo" its move to the Trash, regardless of when that happened.
That said, Put Back (or Put Away) was a missed function, and I'm glad it's coming back. I did find it useful.
Big? Basic computer functionality is big now? Shouldn't have been gone in the first place.
As somebody else already said, I think they're doing exactly the right thing with this release (assuming performance really does improve the way they say it will, which remains to be seen).
Putting new features on hold and making everything run better on current hardware plus laying the foundation for future improvements is the right thing to do, IMO.
.5 had plenty of flashy new features and eye candy as far as I'm concerned.
I'll appreciate that new drilldown method when I'm hitting the space bar for spring-loading. Which is how I often use Stacks already, but limited to one level.
Only a little... not as excited as you are ABOUT them getting excited
Only a little... not as excited as you are ABOUT them getting excited
Definitely agreed. I don't use stacks at all, and I work around it by creating aliases to all the folders I want in my dock then I get the single click to open behaviour back. It would be nice to get rid of the workaround.
Even better would be to add a main finder setting to say whether you want spacial or browser, or just an option that says "windows always remember their views automatically" to get back the old finder behaviour of 20+ years!
No sign of push? Isn't there a problem at the moment that MacOSX doesn't have push capability built in?
That would be very pretty...
That would be very pretty...
Exactly, this isn't complicated folks, it's just an extra option to use or ignore as you like.
I never even noticed you could to that in search results. A good idea, though.
In every OS X release so far, the pile of un-advertised minor improvements, all taken TOGETHER, add up to more than any of the "big headline" features. It's those hundred little things I miss the most when I go back to an older OS X (or Windows for that matter). If Snow Leopard lacks a lot of big new user-facing features, it's good to see that many small ones are still on the way.
Ever deleted 5,000 files, done some other stuff for 10 minutes, and realized that one of the plug-ins you erased was a mistake?
You can't command z, that will undo the last few things you did, but this is 10 minutes ago, remember.
You don't remember where it came from, so you have to figure it out with a couple minutes on Google, then manually move it.
This "feature" is a big help. I use the quotes there because it's really lame that this has beeen missing for so many years. OS9 and Windows both have it, so it's obviously not something that they just couldn't figure out how to do.
Not excited such, but those are two features I would actually use (and to be honest expected already).
But you're crazy if you think 10.6 is just some 'hobby' or side story for Apple. Do you think they are just doing it for fun? When they say stability and performance, it just means they are tightening up the entire experience - unifying things that should never have gone astray. You don't notice an of these things, but they are important. If 10.6 solidifies everything, it will be very worthy.
Everytime they introduce new features (which they have done for a while) in an OS update, they just add more things to their ultimate 'to do' list while neglecting many things on the list currently. I see 10.6 as, "right, let's address everything we can" - once again resetting as much as they can back to a pristine state. A put back command and drilling a stack were obviously things on this to do list, as I hope a lot of other small things are.
Everything done in 10.6 will lay foundation for the new features they will introduce in 10.7. In fact you could say 10.6 exists BECAUSE of 10.7. Without 10.6 there will be no 10.7 (and I don't just mean numerically).
I wish more developers would put this kind of care into their products instead of just hammering out more features on the surface to appease the public image.
Consistency
What I love about Apple, is the way they connect every Application on a mac. Finder looks more and more like iPhotoLite and iTunesLite. This is very smart strategy. Windows users are less afraid of MAC because most of them used iTunes.
Can't wait till Snow Heaven.
What I love about Apple, is the way they connect every Application on a mac. Finder looks more and more like iPhotoLite and iTunesLite. This is very smart strategy. Windows users are less afraid of MAC because most of them used iTunes.
Can't wait till Snow Heaven.
uh....who cares? "put back"........what's the point?
shouldn't we all be using a back-up, like TimeMachine?
if you delete a file.......get Time-Machine to restore it.
Apple.......work on something more productive than this crap, please.
shouldn't we all be using a back-up, like TimeMachine?
if you delete a file.......get Time-Machine to restore it.
Apple.......work on something more productive than this crap, please.
Wow... 'minor' indeed. I do hope that this is a sign that Apple is fixing *most* of these little quirks rather than an insignificant few.
And I also hope that the reason Apple seems to have abandoned Bug Reporter is because they're planning to mass fix in the Leopard of Snow.
Edit:
To clarify... I'm not being a whiner about these two features. They are certainly good... come on people, is it that hard to understand why returning a file to where it was deleted from would be useful?
And I also hope that the reason Apple seems to have abandoned Bug Reporter is because they're planning to mass fix in the Leopard of Snow.
Edit:
To clarify... I'm not being a whiner about these two features. They are certainly good... come on people, is it that hard to understand why returning a file to where it was deleted from would be useful?
Good news. I am glad Apple is taking a breather to just polish and trim their OSX. Ever since 10.3 came out, the OS lost its direction and became bulky and slower. I miss the original days of OSX when it ran like water.
Hopefully their hardware is being redesigned inside to optimize function. Exterior design isn't an issue at this time. 2009 might be a good year for Apple products... once they actually release something for sale.
Hopefully their hardware is being redesigned inside to optimize function. Exterior design isn't an issue at this time. 2009 might be a good year for Apple products... once they actually release something for sale.