OS X Mountain Lion Discussion

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I'll give this a go anyway - I heard rumours that Mountain Lion would ship 19 July - any word on whether that rumour is from a reliable source? it sounds about right but I want to take a few days off from work (annual leave) to spend some time with it :D

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I'll give this a go anyway - I heard rumours that Mountain Lion would ship 19 July - any word on whether that rumour is from a reliable source? it sounds about right but I want to take a few days off from work (annual leave) to spend some time with it :D

July 20, 2011 was OS X Lion's release date. So sounds to me it's purely based on that. No real rumor just something someone made up.

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July 20, 2011 was OS X Lion's release date. So sounds to me it's purely based on that. No real rumor just something someone made up.

So far all they said was July, no specific date was given. Like you said the current rumor is just based on Lion's release date
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Never had that problem. Not once.

It?s not because you didn?t find any bug in the Finder that it?s bug free. Trust me, technically speaking, it hasn?t evolved much since Tiger.

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.

That?s what I ended up doing. Problem is, that was plan B.

Right click on the Dock > New Window should have worked.

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I've been using ML since DP1 and I'm still not sold on it being an OS upgrade and not "a bunch of add-ons and social stuff we thought we could milk money out of."

I have yet to see any OS as good as 10.5/6 They were both good solid upgrade, and 10.7/8 do nothing for me, really I could move back to 10.6(if it wasn't for iCloud locking me into 10.7, though I could just move back to gmail) and not miss a single change.

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AltecXP

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Strange that you focus only on the social stuff, I haven?t noticed a lot of it in 10.8.

A bunch of other features are interesting and bring nice fixes to Lion, which has brought users backwards in a few areas.

Being as it was the second thing that I mentioned I wouldn't say that I "focus on" it. Though they did enjoy pushing it at WWDC.

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They mentioned at the keynote that you could stick Notes onto the Desktop, but I can't figure out how to do it. Dragging and dropping from the sidebar doesn't seem to work.

I also wonder if that means Stickies will be going away by the GM. I made some new Stickies today and I just realized that the UI hasn't changed at all from the classic Mac OS days, since it appears to still be using Mac OS 9 window widgets.

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It?s not because you didn?t find any bug in the Finder that it?s bug free. Trust me, technically speaking, it hasn?t evolved much since Tiger.

Except for the fact the Finder is completely rewritten in Cocoa during OS X Snow Leopard's development you mean?

That?s what I ended up doing. Problem is, that was plan B.

Right click on the Dock > New Window should have worked.

Like I said you described an issue I've never encountered before.

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I also noticed that Grab hasn't gotten a UI update in quite some time. Wonder if Apple forgot about it. It also ignores the vectorized cursors and the larger sizes you can set in Accessibility.

With the exception of timing Grab really doesn't have much of a purpose. Together with Sticky Notes I have no idea what it's still doing in OS X.

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Quillz

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The only use I found for it was it lets you take screenshots with the mouse cursor included.

And yeah, Stickies are a real relic. Notes/Reminders seem to be the replacement. Just can't figure out how to drag Notes to the desktop, I believe that was demonstrated at the WWDC keynote but it hasn't been working for me.

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