Mac OS X 'Leopard'-related Discussion

[Creamy]

Wow....cant wait for my macbook now...:o

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Jebus! Roll on October! I can't wait to get me a piece of this Leopard goodness! :)

[divinatum]

iTunes Visualizer 1

iTunes Visualizer 2

iTunes Visualizer 3

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New Desktop... Menubar doesn't show windows under it like the WWDC build and the last build

Time is readable!

[JoHideo]

Is there an official release date besides "sometime in October"? Also, I was planning on buying a refurb mini to give me my first taste of Apple. I heard that when the last OS was released, there was a certain grace period so that you could request the new OS to be sent to you since you purchased so recently. What was this grace period and would it apply to refurbs?

[osirisX]

Apple has only stated "October". Which probably means October 31st.

[PyX]

October 30. Just 'cuz it's a Tuesday...

[chrisgeleven]

I imagine an official release date will be announced in the next few weeks.

Apple usually takes advantage of any extra time they can get, so I would think late October is what their aiming for.

[.Neo]

I finally got the chance to play around with the latest Leopard build. As I noticed before this build is much, much more refined than the one from WWDC and the few other ones that followed. Many of the UI elements have been updated including the control buttons of QuickTime.

Overall I find Mac OS X Leopard to be quite fast on my iMac, although the UI feels a bit sluggish at time, like when dragging windows around.

Loving the new min/max/close buttons!

[mattrobs]

Loving the new min/max/close buttons!

I beg to differ. What's with the 90s-style reflection on the orbs?

[.Neo]

Like I said: I like 'em. :cool:

It's just a bit too bad there isn't more animating stuff, like fade-ins and outs. They spend all this time developing Core Animation, yet hardly no additional effects throughout the system and its applications can be found.

Oh btw,

like I expected Apple fixed the Spotlight Menu to adapt to both Aqua and Graphite:

It's amazing how truly instant Spotlight is in Leopard.

Edited September 1, 2007 by .Neo

[RadishTM Veteran]

^ You want it to become like Windows Vista in-terms of animation?

I'm still waiting for Leopard to be somewhat unified graphically, but I fear I will be disappointed.

Radish?

[.Neo]

^ You want it to become like Windows Vista in-terms of animation?

I'm still waiting for Leopard to be somewhat unified graphically, but I fear I will be disappointed.

Radish?

Well I do kinda like how every window does a quick animation upon opening in Windows Vista. Looks cool. It's too bad that only Finder and Quick Look windows do an animation.

What more unification do you want btw? In which areas?

[RadishTM Veteran]

What more unification do you want btw? In which areas?

I just want it to be more aesthetic, with the colours and "toolbar" buttons within applications (would like them to follow a unified set).

Vista's teal colour scheme puts me off, has different shades all over the place.

Radish?

[.Neo]

I really don't like how iWork '08 looks. :pinch:

[PyX]

What's wrong? It's awesome!

Oh actually... the toolbar underneath the main one should be a lighter gray, like on my Mac... I don't know why it's like that.

[.Neo]

I never seen iWork '08's Format Bar look any different than that on Leopard. Always the dark. :/

[osirisX]

Looks great to me. You can tell the contextual format bar was designed for Leopard. You can see the drop down boxes, buttons, etc more clearly.

[PyX]

But still, the one UNO gives me is a little better :

[osirisX]

UNO is doing it wrong though. The contextual format bar is supposed to merge in with Unified toolbar. And why does the comments icon not have text underneath it?

[PyX]

It does, but since the button Comment is grayed out, the text is the same color as the background... I don't know if that is a good idea or not, but wouldn't say it's that bad. But yeah, by convention, we never did that.

[Quillz]

UNO is doing it wrong though. The contextual format bar is supposed to merge in with Unified toolbar. And why does the comments icon not have text underneath it?

It's likely doing it wrong because UNO hasn't been updated to work with Leopard yet.

[osirisX]

But that screenshot of the UNO'D Pages is on Tiger. UNO on Leopard wouldn't do much, if anything at all, at the moment.

[.Neo]

It's likely doing it wrong because UNO hasn't been updated to work with Leopard yet.

He's clearly not using Mac OS X Leopard.

[DrunkenMaster]

So far I'm unimpressed by what I've seen of Leopard. They won't fix the Finder - I don't like the idea of Coverflow previews in the least. Most the 'new' features seem gimmicky. I'm not expecting a revolutionary new OS every 2 years but there are some flaws with OS X that they don't even seem to be addressing.

I'm therefore considering seriously not buying 10.5 and I'm really not even considering buying a new Mac. I'm probably going to install Linux on my iMac G5 and buying a Windows computer. It would genuinely be nice if there were more 'Windows' app makers making OS X apps but since that's not going to happen, I'm going back to Windows - though my Windows computer is not going to connect to the Internet! ;)

[osirisX]

Can someone with Leopard and InDesign tell me if Quick Look can preview INDD files please.