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Feb 23, 09 - 02:46 pm Comment from: Hentercenter

nice. i like the look of Snow Leopard so far!

Feb 23, 09 - 02:48 pm Comment from: Jubei

So clean and polished. Compared to Windows 7 ( is really Vista ) gawdy, overly done transparency jumbled mess.

"Developers testing Snow Leopard can also navigate nested folders from within a Stack," Oliver reports.

Hallelujah... at long last it's back again!

I just hope that finally it's possible again to navigate linked folders as well — Leopard still can't do that again, even in list form while all versions up to Tiger had this capability as standard.

I keep using this utility because of that:

Eternal Storms Software - HierarchicalDock

Feb 23, 09 - 03:05 pm Comment from: Cubert

I think I just had a geekgasm.

My right hand started mousing back and forth until the pen in my pocket exploded.

That's funny Cuthbert. I needed a laugh.

Finally a conversation about the topic - without politics...

@original shiva

Let's see how long it lasts!

Alright, great. But we've been hearing about snow leopard for a year-and-a-half now. Just please release the fscker already!

"Put back" trashed items? At last a reason to upgrade from OS 9.

At last... Snow Leopard flash AND substance. Unlike a certain President - BHO.

Well, at least according to the linked video, hierarchical navigation even through links seems to be in again! Woo hoo!

Only took them several years!

Excellent. I love the whole Stacks paradigm and it just got better.

Feb 23, 09 - 05:28 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Better be able to modify search results view

To more than just 'name/kind/date-opened'

THAT would be a simple return to 10.4.x



BC

It's about time that Apple added that "Put Back" function. Windows has had the ability to "Restore" deleted items from its Recycle Bin since 1995. Cupertino, start your copiers ...

Pot. Kettle. Black.: It's about time that Apple added that "Put Back" function. Windows has had the ability to "Restore" deleted items from its Recycle Bin since 1995. Cupertino, start your copiers ...

And "classic" MacOS had it even before that. They just need to resurrect it from their own archives.

when will it be released?

They could release it tomorrow because they can give us monthly fixes like they do with iPhone and Leopard 10.5 lol

What are the enhancements? Speed differences?

How much is this update? These minor tweaks should be a free update... Not much work involved in doing so...

If Apple wants my money, I want to see performance increases amongst other stuff to get 50$ out of me...

Feb 23, 09 - 09:30 pm Comment from: Daniel Phermous

"Not much work involved in doing so..."

You've never optimised a piece of software, I take it?

Apple probably doesn't care if people buy Snow Leopard or not. It's improving the foundation so that the next iterations have a strong, up-to-date base. Snow Leopard is more for Apple than it is for their users.

Just look at the boxed set of OSX, iLife and iWork. Apple is encouraging people to upgrade to Leopard. That's the important one. Apple wants everyone to have Core Animation for the next generation of software.

I hope you don't buy the upgrade MM...

I myself appreciate what Apple is offering and plan to purchase the most advanced and user-friendly OS to date this mid year with Snow Leopard.

.. I understand that you are trying to hardball Apple with price here... but I think most of Apple's customers understand that alot of work is being done to perfect Snow Leopard, and because of that they probably wouldn't tell Apple that optimizing their entire OS isn't much work.

I hope Apple sells the Snow Leopard for $12,000 for the guy who calls himself MM on MDN and $50 for everyone else who isn't such a dickhead.

Any chance they'll fix the Finder? Naah...

can someone explain what is wrong with the finder? i don't have a problem with it…

Without getting too technical, there are purists who prefer certain things the old MacOS 9 Finder did which the current one does not. I can see their point but I think it's unfair to call the current one "broken" just because it chose a different way of doing things.

(This is all assuming LiM is talking about what I think he's talking about.)

Nathan: can someone explain what is wrong with the finder? i don't have a problem with it…

• Finder windows often don't update when files have been changed or created.

• Finder window handling is chaotic and unreliable. Window size, window placement and display mode are handled really badly. The "classic" Finder had simply preserved the settings for each folder, as it should. The new one is a bungled mess of "browsing" window and folder windows with seemingly random display mode. Even with the option to "pin" a folder to a certain mode it works really badly.

• The Spotlight search window is a cruel joke with its jarring and extremely impractical fixation on just three sorting columns (Name, Kind, Last Opened). It almost negates the advantages of Spotlight.

• No or inconsistent handling of file attributes (hidden, executable etc.).

• Various redraw errors.

And the list goes on and on and on...

Don't get me wrong: There are quite a few positive things to be said about the Finder as well, but it still is apparently treated by Apple as the ugly stepchild of the platform as a whole, even though it is the most important application of all and the one most frequently used by most people.

Allegedly it is being rewritten as we speak (from its old Carbon base to Cocoa), but I'm not really getting my hopes up — it seems the Finder guys at Apple actually thought the Finder should behave as horribly as it currently does! :-(

Did they repair spotlight? In other words, did Apple make it possible to search wherever you want, including your system files?

Did they fix the smartfolders? In Tiger it was possible to save your smartfolders wherever you want - in Leopard it's a multi-click solution.

Is the URL saved in the info when you DL (or drag-out) a picture from the web, like it used to in OS9?

Face it guys, OS X had its chance, but blew it. Window 7 has refined the already excellent Vista (yes, it's true) and will melt Snow Leopard in a summer of Microsoft magic.

Hi Schlepburger. You are fucked. Enjoy your slavery.

Feb 25, 09 - 04:35 pm Comment from: NCIceman

Oh, screen shots yanked...denied!