Mac OS X 'Leopard'-related Discussion

[Quillz]

So I just got the latest build...

The old default wallpaper is still around, but has been shuffled into the "Plants" category. It's now called "Grass Blades."

Dashboard is more or less the same, but Web Clip is going to be very useful.

[suspiria]

They aren't consistent because they don't use the white plastic like everything else is using.

What's "white plastic"?

[Xero]

^ I think he meant the glossy buttons, but they should be metal like the rest of the Leopard toolbars, I think they are trying to phase out the aqua (white plastic) but who the hell knows with Apple these days

[osirisX]

The Leopard toolbar buttons look like white plastic to me.

White Plastic:

Clear Plastic:

[.Neo]

Don't you think it would become a bit boring if every single application started using the the exact same toolbar? I preferred the old style though from few builds back, instead of the glossy stuff.

But don't worry give me a few months after its release and hopefully I'll be able to give it a consistent GUI.

Make sure to include skins for every single 3rd party application out there that adopts the new Leopard look. Otherwise it WON'T be consistent. ;)

Well, I guess you have some modding to do.

:laugh:

Quillz: That must be the only thing that really bugs me. Dashboard changed little to none in Mac OS X Leopard.

Edited September 27, 2007 by .Neo

[divinatum]

Quillz: That must be the only thing that really bugs me. Dashboard changed little to none in Mac OS X Leopard.

Agreed, some more change would be nice there. Oh well.

Btw, hop on aim .Neo...

[osirisX]

I expected Apple to include more widgets with Leopard.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Wonder when we're going to get a release date, and "gold" confirmation then.. come on Apple!

[crazzyyfool]

Any news on whether Safari includes any anti-phishing features as promised and available in earlier builds? It will be a bit of a disappointment if nothing is there considering every other major browser now contains them.

[KoL Veteran]

The Leopard toolbar buttons look like white plastic to me.

White Plastic:

Clear Plastic:

they should have kept the aqua for the toolbars or at least make something better than those grey buttons. They looks boring and ugly. Same with iTunes graphics, they look bad.

[mattrobs]

they should have kept the aqua for the toolbars or at least make something better than those grey buttons. They looks boring and ugly. Same with iTunes graphics, they look bad.

Yeah. It's just a simple gradient!

[osirisX]

[.Neo]

I expected Apple to include more widgets with Leopard.

Well at least updated graphics on the original ones.

[crazzyyfool]

Have Apple finally fixed the crappy botched skin of the Calculator widget?

[PyX]

The weather thing, for one, could be much improved. 50% of the time, the actual weather the widget gives me is plain wrong. That has to do with their databases. I've also seen Konfab's new weather widget, it's simply incredible and has a number of features ours don't.

osirisX : Kinda nice, but the fonts are ugly x_x

.Neo : Ok then, I wanted to know if I could install Leopard on my main partition or not... and I don't have a free partition for Leopard either. So I'll wait some more til the final... I hope they will make a good price for students :p

[.Neo]

The weather thing, for one, could be much improved. 50% of the time, the actual weather the widget gives me is plain wrong. That has to do with their databases. I've also seen Konfab's new weather widget, it's simply incredible and has a number of features ours don't.

Apple simply uses a third-party website which the widgets syncs to. Konfabulator does the same thing. So when the website forecast is wrong, the widget is as well. It has little to do with Apple.

[stefanka]

The Leopard toolbar buttons look like white plastic to me.

White Plastic:

Clear Plastic:

White Plastic? They looks like metal.

[Quillz]

That looks far worse than Leopard. :x

[.Neo]

Definitely.

In general I'm against the idea of fully transparent windows. I don't mind it for HUD panels, but for main application windows it's a really bad idea.

[Quillz]

Definitely.

In general I'm against the idea of fully transparent windows. I don't mind it for HUD panels, but for main application windows it's a really bad idea.

As am I. I wonder if all the people who think Leopard looks awful have used or at least seen 9A559. It's kind of like the third generation nano... It doesn't look so hot in pictures, but once you've actually used it as a day-to-day OS, it really grows on you. I love the latest build, it's both very beautiful and very stable. I'm finding it hard to go back into Tiger already, although I have to since I still need to sync my iPhone and what not in iTunes.

BTW... Has anyone else noticed this new feature in Safari 3? It may be exclusive to just Leopard...

This is nothing new, it's been in Firefox for quite some time, but it's nice to see it added to Safari. At any time, you just click on "Saved Tabs" and it opens up everything in there all at once. So in my case, I have my 10 most visited sites in there, when I start up the browser or at any other time, I can load them all instantly.

[MasterC]

This is nothing new, it's been in Firefox for quite some time, but it's nice to see it added to Safari. At any time, you just click on "Saved Tabs" and it opens up everything in there all at once. So in my case, I have my 10 most visited sites in there, when I start up the browser or at any other time, I can load them all instantly.

It's in Tiger, too. (Y)

[.Neo]

As am I. I wonder if all the people who think Leopard looks awful have used or at least seen 9A559. It's kind of like the third generation nano... It doesn't look so hot in pictures, but once you've actually used it as a day-to-day OS, it really grows on you. I love the latest build, it's both very beautiful and very stable. I'm finding it hard to go back into Tiger already, although I have to since I still need to sync my iPhone and what not in iTunes.

The main reason why I love the Leopard interface is because it really complements the new iMac design. All three elements are there: Aluminium/metal, glass and black elements.

And yeah like you said, it really grows on you when actually working with it. Personally I find it a pain to return to the mess of Aqua, Unified and Brushed that represents Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

[osirisX]

That looks far worse than Leopard. :x

That's the point ;)

[.Neo]

That's the point ;)

Then why did you made the Cancel button unresponsive? I wanted to cancel so bad! :cry:

[PyX]

Apple simply uses a third-party website which the widgets syncs to. Konfabulator does the same thing. So when the website forecast is wrong, the widget is as well. It has little to do with Apple.

Yeah, I know about that. But their databases are really bad.

And I don't understand why 10 different sites give me 10 different weathers for Montreal... there aren't 10 companies here to look for the weather.... it's impossible. Anyway, that's something else.