Snow Leopard to Provide Icon-Level Previews

[kolax]

I'd find it far easier and convenient just to press spacebar on my keyboard than hover my cursor over the file until a play button appears..

 

[avigalante]

I'd find it far easier and convenient just to press spacebar on my keyboard than hover my cursor over the file until a play button appears..

I certainly agree.

The spacebar quick-look function is incredibly easy and functional as I can do keep command directly from the keyboard, as opposed to using the mouse.

 

[MacBoy08]

same thing

I'm sure he isn't jealous of a fail, plus everyone using Leopard has this feature, but in icon view they don't.

in finder icon and coverflow mode you can see a preview by scrolling over it, it will show an intro to the movie and a status bar of the length going around the play button. or you can take 1 second and hit space and you get a little bit more comprehensive quick look at the movie in a second window.





i guess i just don't understand what all the big fuss is about, don't we all have these features?

 

[iMacmatician]

been mentioned but for this to be useful (and the current column preview mode) you have to be able to skim through.

Its possible to skim through videos in leopard in quick look and column view but you have to press play again. But there is no visual indication on how far into the video you are.

Theres nothing you can do with audio files.

In some ways it was a step back in removing the seek bar from the column view and get info window

It's better for a multi-touch Mac like the rumored tablet.

 

[Sky Blue]

I wondered why I'd never come across this in my 10.6 testing ...now I know. The icon size has to be at least 64x64 before the play button shows.

 

[deputylove8]

Well..i soo hope this is true..hehe

 

[sushi]

Looks like a nice feature to have. Convenient.

 

[richard.mac]

I wondered why I'd never come across this in my 10.6 testing ...now I know. The icon size has to be at least 64x64 before the play button shows.

really? oh well that means i probably wont use this feature as i like to have all of my icons at 44x44. 64x64 is way too big.

 

[.Chris]

That's really cool, but Linux had had that for like 4 years now. It's so funny how new features are added to OS X, and all the fan boys jump up and down as if Apple came out with this cool new feature when the rest of the world has had it for years.

Some features they may have had, but they were hidden and not well known. Apple was the first to introduce these features plubicly and in a good graphical and physical standing. Others are very buggy, have messed up UIs (some old, some new some mixed) ***cough***microsoft***cough***

Any Linux user will crucify you for this. But then again, any Mac user would crucify a PC fanboy for saying nobody used Macs.

I hate fan boys. Its a damn computer. if you prefer one OS, then fine, don't go off being immature staring rights on the net.

I for one are for both. But may start to go mac at least half to 3/4 now.

I wonder if Apple plans on introducing any more features to Snow Leopard's Finder to make it finally more comparable to Windows Explorer.

Doubt it. Vista's explorer still is a huge mess. I've used macs finder at the apple and mac stores and I like what I see. Simple. But then again, its a bit to simple for me, at least in my opinion.

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[bocomo]

Is it just me or hasn't the finder done media previews with no extra popup box in column view forever? Is this just making that happen in icon view?

that's what i was thinking

i liked that snappy little feature

 

[bep207]

whats the consensus on price for this new cat?
will we have to pay full price again?
for "no new features"

 

[kaiwai]

That's really cool, but Linux had had that for like 4 years now. It's so funny how new features are added to OS X, and all the fan boys jump up and down as if Apple came out with this cool new feature when the rest of the world has had it for years.

Not it has; previews based on hovering over the file only appeared in GNOME 2.22.x recently. So not, it hasn't bee a matter of '4 years'.

Please, take your trollage somewhere else.

 

[iMacmatician]

Further optimizations to icon-level Quick Look?

When Quick Look was first seen in builds of Leopard, you had to right-click the file and select "Quick Look" from the contextual menu. I recall people saying stuff like "It's easier to just double-click to open the file!"

But Apple refined Quick Look to activate by a space bar.

Maybe something similar can happen with icon-level Quick Look?

 

[0098386]

I really like Apple's approach to making everything just work faster, Coverflow has been a godsend and Spotlight's smart folders work so well for me. These icon previews look set to follow this trend. Good work Apple.

 

[adom]

That looks really good, nice easy.

Does remind me of the iTunes Wifi Store preview system too ... whereby the album art turns into the preview 'circle' which counts down. Very cool

 

[isoceles]

It's the little things that count.

 

[scotty96LSC]

I'm sure there are more goodies on the horizon as well.

 

[Wotan31]

It's a welcome tweak, sure, but hardly new. Linux has had this for several years, an option in KDE I believe. It's just like "spaces" where they take a unix feature that's been around for years and tout it like some new technological breakthrough. lame.

 

[Eric S.]

And I'm certain that no PPC user would ever want this!

 

[dadoc04]

Sounds cool, can't wait to try it out...

 

[batchtaster]

Hes not lying, it works via column view.. obviously, he doesnt understand that theyve now added it to the standard icon view but hes right, you can see something similar through column view.

Oh, no, no, no, no, NO. Specifically said:

i already have this feature in finder. previewing audio files by hovering over them untill a play button appears

That, the bit in bold, is not a misinterpretation of a feature. Because it does not coincide with column-view behavior. Particularly not with the screenshot posted in this thread.

No. That is an attention-seeking liar.

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

either way, it is a pretty cool feature, to have it universally throughout the OS. I hate to see what kind of ****ed up version of this will end up on Windows 7.

 

[thunderclap]

That's really cool, but Linux had had that for like 4 years now. It's so funny how new features are added to OS X, and all the fan boys jump up and down as if Apple came out with this cool new feature when the rest of the world has had it for years.

It's even more amusing when Windows fanboys jump up and down as if Microsoft came out with a cool new feature. Microsoft steals from Apple who steals from Linux. No wonder Microsoft is years behind everyone else.

 

[iMacmatician]

either way, it is a pretty cool feature, to have it universally throughout the OS. I hate to see what kind of ****ed up version of this will end up on Windows 7.

Play on hover?