Mac OS X 'Leopard'-related Discussion

[digitalsoft]

i cant see that being the new interface... we are talking about apple... that wont happen.

[osirisX]

The current beta UI is WAY to heavy. If you take a look at the screenshot of Mail it looks bad. Safari also has some strange looking buttons. They are a lot smaller than normal.

[.Ark]

wow that can't be the final like others said... looks like a piece of sh!t lol.. i would prefer the current graphite theme that os x has anyday over what they have in the screenshots

[.Neo]

i cant see that being the new interface... we are talking about apple... that wont happen.

You know, about everyone around here said the exact same thing during the Mac OS X Tiger betas.

Nobody believed that System Preferences would actually stay like this:

Nor did people think that the bright blue plastic Apple and Spotlight icons on the menubar would make it to the final build, or that the Finder would keep it's Mac OS X Panther appearance.

But we all know how it turned out in the end. ;)

[Elliott]

That's definitely not even near final.

[.Neo]

I wonder what the Finder's new 'eye' button does. A link to View Options maybe?

[osirisX]

It's for Quick Look.

[.Neo]

It's for Quick Look.

Ah OK. That makes sense too.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

ugh, i don't want to have to wait for 10.6 for a new finder.

A Cocoa mix of the old Finder and the NeXTStep file browser would be very nice IMO (and while they are at it, I want iTunes re-written for Cocoa)

[osirisX]

Anyone else notice these in Safari?

I actually like the smaller ones. Nice to see that the webclip button now fits in. I would like to see the backward/forward buttons match the new ones though.

[PyX]

What I meant is, they delay Leopard because of the iPhone. If they hadn't talked about the iPhone, they could develop it the pace they want and put more efforts into Leopard.

I thought the interface of Mac OS X for iPhone looked pretty polished and complete though, there must be something else behind that move.

Safari should have colored buttons IMO, it'd make the interface more joyous...

[gigapixels Veteran]

I like unified, but I'm not a fan of the dark :(

[suspiria]

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0702leopardilife.html

Think Secret was clearly right on the mark. :rolleyes:

[divinatum]

That's definitely not even near final.

Yep. It's quite a ways off, you can notice a lot of UI elements that just don't belong.

Anyway, the eye button in finder brings up QuickLook which has been expanded to support more filetypes.

Also, in the utilities folder there are 2 new apps. "Podcast Capture" and "Directory"

Podcast capture's titlebar calls it Podcast Producer, and it asks for a login to a server. I guess that OSX Server will be needed for that. and Directory does nothing. Maybe a replacement for Directory Utility??

User backdrops work in Photobooth. I couldn't make them work in iChat in a 1 way video chat. I'll try it some more later on. iChat Theater seems to be functional too (I only played a movie through it)

Trying A2DP as we speak, it was quite broken in the last build... Bluetooth might be broken. Not sure yet.

Edited April 14, 2007 by divinatum

[.Neo]

Anyone else notice these in Safari?

I actually like the smaller ones. Nice to see that the webclip button now fits in. I would like to see the backward/forward buttons match the new ones though.

Those buttons are artifacts from the resolution independent UI. It's a bug.

[osirisX]

Damn it, I like the way they look :p

[divinatum]

Those buttons are artifacts from the resolution independent UI. It's a bug.

I think they might be the new buttons really. Not sure.

[Novaoblivion]

The fact that the webclip button was shiny and black and its now white like all the others makes me wonder if there was another UI planned but it got scraped for the "Uno" look? Maybe in order to get it out the door sooner?

[osirisX]

Nah, Safari in Tiger has the Webclip button in its' resources. Makes me think they wanted Webclip for Tiger but something stopped them from finishing it. It was probably originally black because the icon for widgets are black and Dashboards' icon is black.

Think Secret has a bunch of screenshots for the new build: http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a410/index.html

Title bars for Aqua windows are darker too. iCal is looking very nice. Automator has that same template sheet found in Dashcode. Seems they will become a standard for project based apps. The plastic mail buttons look awful on the dark toolbar. All pinstripes seem to have disappeared, which I like.

Why do all Leopard screenshots have that funny texture to them?

[giga Veteran]

Hm, it's kind of growing on me other than the Dark Mail + Plastic buttons but I suppose that'll get reworked.

[divinatum]

Why do all Leopard screenshots have that funny texture to them?

Bug. They also have square corners if you capture just the window.

[divinatum]

So a few more thoughts since I've had more time to play with it.

"Sharing" finder option Connect to Desktop (ARD Lite as I called it) is no longer present in the Finder (going to see if the .app still exists). Edit: Still exists in /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement I wouldn't be surprised if this makes it's way into /Applications before final.

The alternative PieChart progress bar for Safari is gone.

Server Monitor Widget for 10.5 Server is gone (I assume that was bound to happen and it'll be on the 10.5 Server DVD)

...I am really happy about all the security enhancements. Such as, iChat defaults to using SSL now, and Mail.app defaults to using SSL.

Just installed Developer Tools, so off to see what goodies exist there :)

And um. That's all for now, more later ;)

Edited April 15, 2007 by divinatum

[mattrobs]

Arch. That's just too damn dark. Esp. here the dark top bar where it draws the eye's attention away from the whiter body.

[divinatum]

I've been playing in the new Preview.app for a while now. I am madly in love. It's a very functional app now :)

Sorry, attaching photos seems broken in this build heh.

[mattrobs]

I've been playing in the new Preview.app for a while now. I am madly in love. It's a very functional app now :)

What, no more drawer? Edit: What does the 'Sidebar' button do?