os x OS X Mountain Lion Discussion

[Aaron Olive]

My thoughts exactly .Neo. And it doesn't make any sense to me unless Facebook requested. Why would Apple hold a feature like this off until the fall?

They are still working on this as it's not completely integrated and they were going to release it in the fall with iOS 6, which is what was said last week at the keynote.

[Aaron Olive]

Zebra Wallpaper has been added, yay :woot:.

[.Neo]

Zebra Wallpaper has been added, yay :woot:.

Way too busy in my opinion, but still pretty nice they listened to the requests. (Y)

[Aaron Olive]

Way too busy in my opinion, but still pretty nice they listened to the requests. (Y)

it kinda looks low in quality, clarity wise. :(

[PyX]

Can?t wait until it?s released. Not a lot of things annoy me in OS X anymore.

If only they could make a Finder that?s stable and give iWork the largest update ever it deserves, enterprises would not hesitate in switching to Macs.

[Hurmoth]

... iWork the largest update ever it deserves, enterprises would not hesitate in switching to Macs.

Speaking of, I almost totally forgot about iWork. There haven't been any rumors recently even about that. iWork is what, 3 years old now? I know they've done a few minor updates to add in iWork.com support and now iCloud support, but that's nothing compared to what it should be getting.

[Aaron Olive]

Launchpad now has an extra light blur setting for the color background in addition to the previous two blur settings.

Hold ctrl+opt+cmd and press B while in Launchpad to cycle through the settings.

Light blur

Full blur

[Quillz]

Another icon request: iTunes icon and the CS6 icons, they look great.

I still wish Launchpad was a bit more robust, though. Still a bit too basic for my liking.

[Aaron Olive]

Another icon request: iTunes icon and the CS6 icons, they look great.

I still wish Launchpad was a bit more robust, though. Still a bit too basic for my liking.

iTunes CS5 Fold

What would you suggest they add?

Also The shadow has been reduced on the dock in the 12A248 update.

12A239

12A248

[Lunfai]

That Zebra Wallpaper must've been expensive to license at ?50 for one to use.... Not like Apple can't afford to pay a licensing fee at full cost.

[Quillz]

For Launchpad, all I want them to "add" is what I would consider fairly basic desktop computer behavior, like being able to move more than one icon at a time, being able to easily delete unwanted icons, even if they didn't come from the App Store. I feel that Launchpad is a complete copy of how the home screens work on iOS, which is okay, I suppose, but I just feel Launchpad could stand to have a bit more complexity to it.

Normally I would just ignore it entirely, but I do like using it as an app launcher.

[DeadEndAccount]

Can?t wait until it?s released. Not a lot of things annoy me in OS X anymore.

If only they could make a Finder that?s stable and give iWork the largest update ever it deserves, enterprises would not hesitate in switching to Macs.

They really do need to give iWork some good TLC but equally Microsoft need to give Office 2011 some love or at least share with its user base about the future direction of Office for Mac. IMHO, if the next version of Microsoft Office came with no new features with the only change being that made them 100% Cocoa applications I'd be more than happy to pay full price to upgrade from Office 2011.

Regarding Finder - what issues are you having? personally for me I haven't had a single hang or crash of Finder since Snow Leopard and the complete re-write using Cocoa and modern API's which enabled proper threading etc. have you don't a memory check? did a clean install? are you running any third party daemons in the background such as Growl?

[.Neo]

Not sure what's going on here but so far I haven't been getting any updates from Facebook through Notification Center.

[Noshoes]

The latest update really helped stability, especially with Safari. Glad the shadow for the Dock has been reduced, too. All in all it seems far smoother.

Here's some more screenshots of the Facebook integration.

Facebook in Mountain Lion

[.Neo]

Regarding Finder - what issues are you having? personally for me I haven't had a single hang or crash of Finder since Snow Leopard and the complete re-write using Cocoa and modern API's which enabled proper threading etc. have you don't a memory check? did a clean install? are you running any third party daemons in the background such as Growl?

Yeah same here. Since OS X Snow Leopard I have had no stability issues with the Finder.

[Quillz]

Is not being able to get a complete screenshot of the Dock using CMD+Shift+4+Space a bug, or is it some new kind of behavior?

[.Neo]

Is not being able to get a complete screenshot of the Dock using CMD+Shift+4+Space a bug, or is it some new kind of behavior?

I'm guessing it's because the Dock is now rendered differently than before.

[PyX]

Regarding Finder - what issues are you having? personally for me I haven't had a single hang or crash of Finder since Snow Leopard and the complete re-write using Cocoa and modern API's which enabled proper threading etc. have you don't a memory check? did a clean install? are you running any third party daemons in the background such as Growl?

It?s not necessarily that it crashes per se. Yes, I?ve had it crash a few times on all of my Macs, and "Right click > Force quit" would never work, but it?s not the only problem. Sometimes I will click on the icon of the Finder and it won?t pop up a window. Then I?ll click a bunch of times and nothing. One workaround that sometimes work is Right click > New window.

Another thing, not related to stability, but I have a major design problem with the File Path being disabled by default, and with the pill button gone in the Finder. I couldn?t get a new window to pop up once, and I was stuck with this control-less window of the image disk I had mounted. I was wondering where I could make the toolbar appear on the image disk I mounted. Seemed unclear to me, I don?t want to know what Mac newbies will think of this.

Explorer on Windows is a mess, I?ll give you that, but at least it?s very convenient to use and I can understand switchers that hate the Finder.

[.Neo]

It?s not necessarily that it crashes per se. Yes, I?ve had it crash a few times on all of my Macs, and "Right click > Force quit" would never work, but it?s not the only problem. Sometimes I will click on the icon of the Finder and it won?t pop up a window. Then I?ll click a bunch of times and nothing. One workaround that sometimes work is Right click > New window.

Never had that problem. Not once.

Another thing, not related to stability, but I have a major design problem with the File Path being disabled by default, and with the pill button gone in the Finder. I couldn?t get a new window to pop up once, and I was stuck with this control-less window of the image disk I had mounted. I was wondering where I could make the toolbar appear on the image disk I mounted. Seemed unclear to me, I don?t want to know what Mac newbies will think of this.

You never ever thought of looking under View > Show/Hide Toolbar? Really? The functionality has been there since forever. It also seems fairly obvious it's there since you want to change something about how you're viewing things. Then there's even the search, in case you're unsure where to find something. Again, typing in "toolbar" - since that's what you want to enable - seems like an extremely logical place to start. Never thought about doing that either? :/ In the worst case you can even open your own Finder window, let's say your home folder, and select the mounted disk image there in order to have access to a full toolbar. Not sure why this wouldn't be possible in your case.

[Lunfai]

Not sure what's going on here but so far I haven't been getting any updates from Facebook through Notification Center.

Facebook integration didn't need installing again? Because, mine's running like a charm. + Facebook updates for me is working :s Build 12A248 ?

And you're right the wallpaper does look very 'low quality'....

I'm guessing it's because the Dock is now rendered differently than before.

It looks fine to me.

[Rudy]

Did anyone test it with a Retina Macbook Pro? I don't see anything in the release notes that says it shouldn't work.... I'm debating :D

[.Neo]

Facebook integration didn't need installing again? Because, mine's running like a charm. + Facebook updates for me is working :s Build 12A248 ?

I installed the Facebook thing after installing DP4. Then yesterday ran the DP4 software update. Of course it's build 12A248 after updating, what else would it be?

And you're right the wallpaper does look very 'low quality'....

I didn't say anything about the Zebra desktop picture quality...

It looks fine to me.

?? Nidoking is asking why the "shelf" isn't included when making a screen shot of the Dock alone. My answer to that is it's probably because OS X Mountain Lion renders the Dock differently from how OS X Lion does it.

[.Neo]

I think the Dock progress bars changed after the update. I also noticed an annoying bug: When opening Safari 6 the address bar doesn't always take focus.

[Damian]

It did. New progress bar looks better.

DP3:

DP4:

[.Neo]

Definitely.