Mac OS X 'Leopard'-related Discussion


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I upgraded Tiger on one of our Minis (2 GB RAM) at work, and it went fairly smooth.

Upgrading took awhile - about 90 minutes

The coverflow and quick preview work great, but animations like opening the Apps folder on the Dock is sluggish, and I'm not sure what I think of the Dock "floor", it looks out of place.

Some other things do remind me of Vista, especially the transparency, but Finder is a lot better than Tiger, and I like the overall UI better than Tiger.

That's about all I could gather, as I only had ~20 minutes to play with it, before leaving the office.

I think a clean install would fix some of the performance issues thus far, but I it's been good so far.

Hmm. I wonder what the problem could be then. I'll have another poke around when I get home as it is annoying.

No go, I tried readding all the services, then seeking out and destroying any preference file remotely related to service scrubber, repaired permissions, scrapped my keychain complete, still didnt work, I created a new account, tried there, same thing. So whatever is causing this, is not in our personal Libraries, and located in the system library folder, or somewhere within the system itself.

Ugh... Ima blow my head off trying to solve this.

That looks extremely sexy. How did you do it?

Finder puts a border around images and videos. At least I think that's what he's referring too. :p

Oh, yes, I've noticed that, but haven't thought much of it. But yeah, the countless little graphical tweaks in Leopard are really nice.

i honestly don't like the new dock. I love the side dock, it's plain, sexy and to the point, and i made it my bottom dock :) The new dock is to in your face. like BLAH!!! i am glossy and 3d!

Oh yeah, greatest review ever!

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars

i honestly don't like the new dock. I love the side dock, it's plain, sexy and to the point, and i made it my bottom dock :) The new dock is to in your face. like BLAH!!! i am glossy and 3d!

So you dont like the new dock because it has an attitude problem? :blink:

leopard is nice. it has given new life to my aging powerbook G4. everything i've done in leopard seems faster than it did on tiger, and I haven't had a single compatibility issue yet (fingers crossed). since we're on the topic of the graphic UI, I will say that I wish leopard would have adopted the scrollbars from itunes.

So you dont like the new dock because it has an attitude problem? :blink:

no it's not that, it's just its to in your face, it's not really a poductive too. Like it takes to much of your attention away. IT's really nice looking, but the 3d look just takes to much space or something. I don't know how to explain it, i just don't like it. Sorry, i know it looks like i am just some idiot but that the best i can describe how i feel about it.

no it's not that, it's just its to in your face, it's not really a poductive too. Like it takes to much of your attention away. IT's really nice looking, but the 3d look just takes to much space or something. I don't know how to explain it, i just don't like it. Sorry, i know it looks like i am just some idiot but that the best i can describe how i feel about it.

Nah, dont sweat it, I understand.

I am yet to install leopard (I want to be sure I hav a backup of every single important file) so I dont know how yet how obtrusive it is.

I feel quite the opposite about the 3D Dock. I actually find it to be less distracting. It blends in more with the desktop as the icons hang outside the bounds of the glass floor. I also don't notice the lights until I need to see them.

So here's my new desktop with a custom Dock...

desktop103007xd3.png

I happen to like it, I think the darker Dock actually fits with Leopard much better since the GUI tends to use a dark palette of gray and black.

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