As recently revealed by MacRumors, the latest builds of the upcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard contain some interesting unannounced features. QuickTime Pro is reported to have been axed completely, its features built into QuickTime X, the redesign of QuickTime based off of the iPhone version of QuickTime. This means that users will no longer need to load up iMovie or Final Cut Pro to make minor adjustments to movies, nor pay $30 for this privilege.But today brings the news that Snow Leopard also has two more minor changes. "Put Back" allows users to restore an item stored in the Trash to its previous location by simply right-clicking. Windows users will be familiar with this, and the feature was mysteriously lost in the transition from OS 9 to OS X, up until now. The second feature allows a user to select a folder within a stack and browse that folder in the stack view, as opposed to opening the Finder. Not exactly earth-shattering by any means, but Snow Leopard has so far not been pitched as packed with new features by Apple.
New screenshots have been posted at Italiamac.com, confirming the smaller app sizes, displaying the new features, and showing the new Cocoa-based Finder. Keen-eyed readers may spot some subtle differences from the present-day Finder to the new Finder.
Images courtesy of Italiamac.com
why would apple have even removed something so simple if it already existed?
I have no idea, always wondered why bloody mac never had this feature
Do you have any idea how many little things like that they added in Leopard, and didn't even put on that 300 features list?
Wow, even I would never say something like that from MS and God knows I hate them.
They're going to mention it on Apple's website as a new feature (which is actually a changelog, so they NEED to put it there no matter how big or small the change is, because yes it's new). But don't worry, they won't even mention it in a keynote or as a huge feature or something. If they ever mention it in a keynote, they'll just say "there's a put back button" period. 5 words. But I doubt it.
Because the name most Mac users (at least those of us who used OS 9 and earlier versions) would recognize is "Put Back". Just because "restore" is the name Windows users would recognize doesn't make it the right name on OS X. Kind of how Apple calls the file browser "Finder" and not "Explorer", or how they continue to use "Trash" instead of "Recycle Bin".
No it doesn't. The left column has the new sizes, the right column is the current 10.5 sizes.
LOL-good catch
I don’t think the comparison of application sizes is valid here. If I remove all the language files except English, the size of my Mail.app would shrink from 289 MB to about 28 MB. Do the Snow Leopard dev builds even have the option to install multilingual files? I was under the impression that localization was one of the last parts of the development process…
Also, like Furrybeagle said, localizations take up a LOT of space.
Instead, if you have a spanish version of the OS, it might install English and Spanish. Then, if you want it in french (as if you really would switch 10 billion times in a week) I think you might just download it or just put the DVD back in and install french or something. Right now, apps are localized in so many languages that it takes a lot of place.
That has always been there. Says the current folder is in Icons view.
Wow! Another cool Apple innovation!
Wait... It seems to me I saw it somewhere already!
I could understand that paying for OS X, in some way, means paying for QuickTime. When you buy Windows, there's no QuickTime and you don't pay for it natively. So I would see Windows users paying a small fee maybe.
BUT, QuickTime's a god damned media player. It *needs* to be free for whichever platform it is developped on.
So honestly, I would make this free for both OS X and Windows. And I would completely eliminate "different versions of QuickTime". Apple doesn't like making all kinds of different versions of products (Normal, Pro, Extra-Pro, ....) so in order to make things uniform, make just one version, a proper one, and make it free on Windows and OS X.
Second, the thing that annoys me the most, Apple just put the button there. Nothing else. And you're making a whole story up about it? Woah...
Second, the thing that annoys me the most, Apple just put the button there. Nothing else. And you're making a whole story up about it? Woah...
From: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html
Empty Trash Button
Empty the Trash from the Trash itself with the Empty Trash button.
Word of the Day Screen Saver
Expand your vocabulary with the Word of the Day screen saver. Each day the screen saver will offer up five new words for you to learn.
Search System Files
Use Spotlight to search system files.
Seriously, they really do put all that stuff on their "massive 300 features" list
This is how I see it. That button might as well go there, but I don't see it as a feature, but a change.
Speaking of which, I wouldn't mind seeing some of the older Aqua elements GTFO already from the UI.
The whole UI should match iTunes 8 (or what was in iTunes 7 a year before Leopard was released...), I cannot believe Apple overlooked such inconsistencies... (I'm talking about scrollbars mainly)
- Awesome @ Sizes, won't have to bugger about with Monolingual anymore! ^_^
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