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WWDC Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Videos

I would have thought Snapz Pro does not record the transitions, hence why there is no fade out animation to bring in Front Row....




.... I hope.
 
Ya know...for being a bunch of mac fans...ya'd swear you'd never looked in sys prefs and switch to graphite..


Hey...it might even make ya think ya upgraded already.;)
 
theheyes said:
Spotlight seems pretty quick in one of those videos. Hopefully its a sign of a marked improvement and not just because theres very little to index on the drive.
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Spotlight IS just that fast on many many GB of data.

Also, regarding the front row 2 :)apple: TV) transition, or lack thereof... It doesn't look like the Snapz recording software is recording some core animation things... There is a fade out and in to get to the new front row.
 
dartzorichalcos said:
Why don't you like the iTunes 7 scrollbars? I think it's really time for a replacement to Aqua.
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I really hope they don't, I hate the iTunes 7 GUI colours. I'm sure someone would create an application like Aqua4iTunes if they did, but I honestly don't know what is appealing about the iTunes 7 colours.

Lately Apple seems to have been making changes just for the sake of making changes.

Somethings I don't like about:

  • The rounded corners seem to be disappearing. The menu bar now has square corners, and windows have so little rounding at the top they almost look sharp.
  • If you are going to unify the interface, why not use something a little lighter. Maybe it's just me, but the dark grey seems to look out of place on the vast majority of windows.
  • The Quick Look interface doesn't match the rest.
  • They keep replacing Aqua controls with bring grey ones.
Other than that, the new features look good so I will definitely be upgrading, I'll just be making a few changes where possible. :p
 
Grimace said:
yeah, it's almost like some Leopard features are "disabled" for those without an Apple TV vs. enabled if you do have one. Just semantics I guess.
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Nah, it's just the standard error message that they forgot to change when porting to Leopard.
 
Man! That's the best video of watching someone fiddle around with Address Book for like, ever! :rolleyes:

I was excited about Leopard before I saw those vids...

Nice wallpaper, though.
 
speech & stacks

I'm pretty impressed with the speech capability in Leopard demonstrated in the video. Maybe it is just me but it seems like they improved it a lot.

Stacks, on the other hand, is killing me. I don't mind the grid that pops up, but the bit tall leaning stack looks just awful IMHO. The stack curves for no apparent reason, and it looks aesthetically horrible. I'm pretty sure any good graphic layout professional would have to agree.

If Apple didn't do such a normally solid job designing things, it wouldn't be any big deal. But stacks really stands out as a open sore on the desktop, IMHO. Maybe if they just made the stack perfectly vertical or something....
 
theheyes said:
Spotlight seems pretty quick in one of those videos. Hopefully its a sign of a marked improvement and not just because theres very little to index on the drive.
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That was the first thing I noticed in the videos. The speed in Tiger is currently nowhere near as fast as it appears to be in Leopard, regardless of HD speed or amount of data.
 
irun5k said:
I'm pretty impressed with the speech capability in Leopard demonstrated in the video. Maybe it is just me but it seems like they improved it a lot.

Stacks, on the other hand, is killing me. I don't mind the grid that pops up, but the bit tall leaning stack looks just awful IMHO. The stack curves for no apparent reason, and it looks aesthetically horrible. I'm pretty sure any good graphic layout professional would have to agree.

If Apple didn't do such a normally solid job designing things, it wouldn't be any big deal. But stacks really stands out as a open sore on the desktop, IMHO. Maybe if they just made the stack perfectly vertical or something....
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if u dont like the vertical stack use the grid, its that simple
IMO i dont care if the stack went into an arch lol, ill still use it
 
Like a lot of things in life, the GUI is like a pendulum. They swung so far one way with the miniscule elements calling attention to themselves (like the Aqua scrollbars), that they're swinging back the other way, possibly making them all flat like iTunes, more utilitarian and practical. Kind of like the GUI of the pro apps, just plain grays that let you focus on the task at hand.

Leave the excessive eye candy to Vista. Mac OS has been there, done that. It was fun while it lasted, but it's time to move on.
 
dartzorichalcos said:
Why don't you like the iTunes 7 scrollbars? I think it's really time for a replacement to Aqua.
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I am hoping for the current aqua bars or something entirely new. but definitely not the itunes ones. i have hated the itunes 7 ones ever since i first looked at it. i honestly thought i downloaded a beta the first time i saw it because of them. i thought they forgot to update a resource.

the itunes bars are so flat. flat to the point of total ugliness in my opinion.
 
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