“The latest version of MacOS X – 10.5 aka Leopard – was revealed at WWDC 2006. On exiting the keynote, the developers in attendance received a beta version of the new OS which will be released in April 2007. The goal of this article is to show the new software functionality that we use on a daily basis through images,” MacBidouille reports.
Full article, with screenshots, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Todd,” “Peter B.” and “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
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Wow I can’t wait. Just glad it’s not coming out this Fall, that’s too soon .
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Hey, my first first. (And my last, cuz who gives a squat?)
And this information is important because??????????????
…because you’re a pickle-smoker
I RULE U! I SO SMRAT!
NOOO!!!! What the hell is wrong with Apple?? Have you seen the new screenshots of Preview? They’ve changed the beautiful, large, descriptive, colourful icons into those completely ugly, identical, non-descript chicklets that they infected Mail with in 10.4. What is going on?? Why are they doing this? Those buttons are _DISGUSTING_. Also, what’s up with systematically replacing drawers with sidebars? How is a sidebar better than a drawer?
I’m really disappointed by their choice of interface.
This a clear violation of the disclosure agreement. It’s disrespectful and on par with betraying a friend’s trust.
This is a prime example why Apple is keeping other features secret. They want time to test out features to determine if they are feasible and will produce reliable results. As such, something may be implemented differently, or perhaps won’t be included in the final release. Revealing such testing before the final release is like passing around a friend’s first draft of a new novel when your friend asked you not to do that.
As another example, this is a problem Microsoft is having. They revealed what they wanted to include in Vista before they discovered they couldn’t implement certain features. Now there’s a general disappointment about what won’t be included instead of an appreciation of what will be included.
MW: same, as in “Give the same respect you want to receive.”
It’s not a violation of the NDA if he’s showing nothing more than what was disclosed to the public at WWDC. Now, if he starts spouting off about the “secret” features that he agreed not to talk about or display publicly when he got his developer copy of Leopard, then I won’t be surprised if Apple’s legal eagles swoop down from on high without warning and peck his eyes out.
Mail’s “chicklet” style buttons aren’t my favorites either, but hardly worth having a coronary over. As for those disappearing drawers, I say good riddance. Very hokey idea. Many of my clients are confused by them, especially when they switch sides on their own. I was very happy to see the demise of the Mail drawer. Different strokes for different folks.
I actually like drawers, never had anyone complain about them in my products. Call me odd. As for the bubble-toolbar-icons, eah, not too big a fan. But, I don’t care that much. You might find it hard to believe, but I actually do like how different programs have different window styles, Safari v Mail v iTunes. All good to me. That seems to be a big issue with people “OM@#$@#$@# the programs aren’t consistent!”
I too hate drawers. Never there when I want them, in the way when I don’t want them. Don’t ask me why, because it’s sort of a matter of semanitcs, but I just find drawers more annoying and confusing than sidebars.
Agreed with multiple interfaces. When you work with multiple apps, and switch between them frequently, the interface is what tells you what app you’re using. I’m really concerned about iChat getting a plain-jane interface without window borders. Brushed metal provided a very “solid” texture for windows, which is a crucial component of interactivity.
And things are getting way too “bubbly”…
I like the fact that when you select a file’s name for renaming it excludes the file type – that always annoyed me. It’s the little things that count!
Cubert, I couldn’t agree more! That is the most annoying thing when renaming a file (unless you don’t have extensions showing- but who doesn’t?!)
I don’t think the Mail-like buttons look like chicklets- actually, the Safari buttons look more like chicklets than the Mail ones.
Apple, don’t listen to those of them that don’t like the inconsistency- it’s a nice thing that different apps have different interfaces. Or you could at least make an option to go Unified or not.
The Help menu is also a neat idea as well. And up to 16 space?! Wow. That’s really neat. I wonder how it works on multiple displays…
I’m wondering if the 16 was a type-o and they instead meant 6 (as pictured). Anyone know for sure?
Also, I like the new way to find in Safari. I really hate the separate find window in the current version of Safari. Ironic how that little window always gets lost!
Time machine seems really cool, but the back up I currently make with SuperDuper is bootable. Maybe Time Machine will also make bootable backups by the final release.
As for the drawer vs sidebar issue, it looks like there is a button named Sidebar. I’m guessing that will allow the sidebar to disappear just like a drawer would. Sidebars look better in my opinion.
I’d like to see Finder speed improvements. I have a 1.42 ghz mac mini so maybe that has something to do with it, but I sometimes get a lag of a second or so from the time I click on a folder in column view until the contents of the folder get displayed. Otherwise, I’m pretty satisfied with 10.4.
Good-they fixed find in Safari a la Firefox. I hated the little find window…
The ability to annotate and circle from preview is not a new feature, as the article says – and I kinda like the new preview icons. If you set the view to ‘icons only’, they don’t take up so much screen real estate as their pretty but larger descendants.
Upon reading it again, I think it was a typo. 6 Spaces are still very neat. I don’t know what I would have don’t with 16 anyway.
I think everyone’s gripe about sidebars vs drawers is the fact that drawers aren’t intrusive on your application, whereas sidebars are. This causes to to make the applications window bigger (e.g. in Preview, opening the sidebar will give you a smaller viewable are on the picture, thus making resize the window to see the same amount of picture are as you would with a drawer or with the sidebar off.
I hope that made sense
Time Machine will put the makers of Retrospect backup software out of business. Good thing for Dantz Corp. that they allowed themselves to be bought out.
My mom keeps her apps window size at full screen, which hides the drawer, then she freaks out because she can’t find anything. A simple click of the green button reveals the drawer, but it was simply just not obvious.
Interfaces should be obvious and make common sense, unlike going to the start menu to shut down(couldn’t resist).
One of my annoyances is in Mail…the progress bar when getting mail is really hard to see, and the activity viewer is only there if you search for it. However, I do like the latest interface appearance, and it seems I alone, do like the idea of templates for mail instead of them all looking like standard Word documents. The drag and drop pictures from iPhoto is simple. My biggest complaint in Keynote, iMovie, iWeb, Pages, and now Mail is that I want tons of templates to choose from, not just a few of what Apple thinks I need.
YOU FRIGGING WHIPPER SNAPPERS ARE SPOILED ROTTEN!!!
Just look at the VISUAL history of operating systems and see what we old mac users had to put up with before good old NeXT 2.0 errr…. Mac OS X came around.
http://r-101.blogspot.com/
Something I’ve learned over the years and why Apple didn’t die, people use computers for quite some time and old habits are hard to change. If one starts out on a Mac, it’s very likely they will stick with it forever.
The same goes for Windows, people tend to stick to what they know even if it doesn’t work as expected and tortures them to death because change is worse. Maybe why abused wives stick to their drunken husbands.
It’s the fear of the unknown of Mac OS X, Apple was right to include Boot Camp.
But, and a big but is this. The “trained monkeys” of the PC world won’t swtich because they can barely keep their Windows computers free of malware or even backup files.
Most people just expect to use a computer like a appliance and not understand it’s underworkings.
Stick the cd in and press play, that’s about the most the general public can handle, anything more and they need a trainer, what are they training on and where? The buisness world and Windows.
What they use at work they will use at home, they will train their kids to use so they will get a job, the cycle reinforces itself.
The above average monkeys will use something better and different, willing to adopt to change and ….
OH SHIT!!, Microsoft is substadizing companies like Dell for their cheap end computers so Microsoft retains market share… Holy Christmas!
Think about it, how can a cheap PC sell for $299 with Windows? Microsoft is taking the profits from buisness clients software sales and plowing them into discounts on Windows for cheapo PC’s.
Microsoft knows what I know, train them on one OS and they will most likely stick with what they know for the rest of their sorry ass lives. Microsoft taxes them over and over, especially with anti-virus software.
It all makes sense. Those evil redmond basterds.
Microsoft is giving a full makeover to the UI of Windows while Apple is just changing its icons. What’s up with that?
I’m not opposed to there being different App interface styles. Like, Safari vs. Finder, but, I just can’t stand those little round bubble things in Mail. I use “MailStamps” to make them go back to the way they used to be. Hopefully the people who make MailStamps will make a “PreviewStamps” too.
The main reason I don’t like sidebars is because, (at least in mail,) A) you can’t make it go away if you don’t want to see it. and B) you can’t choose what side of the screen you want it to go on like you could with the drawer. So, the Loss of functionality is very annoying.
I’m okay with the new Safari search bar thingy, if it’s been done right. I don’t want it to scroll the page until the first time I press return. I hate that in FireFox, I’ll be looking at a paragraph on the page, my cursor will be in the find bar and I’ll start to type out a word or part of a sentence or something to see how many times it appears on the page… the _instant_ I type one letter the page scrolls Away from where I was looking at and I don’t remember the exact wording of what it was I was going to look for! Having it scroll away on you automatically is excessively annoying. I just hope Safari does it right.
FTFF: because the complete overhaul was five years ago. Since then it’s been incremental refinements of an already well-designed interface.
Just a question, here. What if you need to change the extension?