Mac OS X Lion Discussion

[Quillz]

Oh, okay. Someone kept telling me to check the Appearance option and thus couldn't figure out why the three scroll bar options weren't doing anything.

EDIT: Seems you can only change the scrolling behavior if you have a trackpad, though. I'm using a Magic Mouse and there is nothing I can edit in Trackpad. Nevermind, the same option is inside the Mouse preferences.

[PyX]

It took people 2 hours to crack the new FaceTime app and put it online, it surprises me the leak of Mac OS X Lion took as long as it did.

I found FaceTime, but I can’t find Lion.

So you must be a better pirate than me then. :laugh:

[thefarewellnote]

I found FaceTime, but I can’t find Lion.

So you must be a better pirate than me then. :laugh:

It is just starting to appear on the more private trackers (that .cd site for example)

[celticpride678]

I found FaceTime, but I can’t find Lion.

So you must be a better pirate than me then. :laugh:

It's on a certain bay, where pirates go (I hope I can say that).

[PyX]

It is just starting to appear on the more private trackers (that .cd site for example)

Ah, that’s what I thought but I was looking on .me, my bad.

I’m not on any other private tracker, so I guess I’ll have to be patient :p

It's on a certain bay, where pirates go (I hope I can say that).

I couldn’t find it there :p

But it doesn’t matter, I know I’ll end up getting my hands on it soon.

[Quillz]

I'm glad that Apple has finally retired all of the old, out-of-place shiny, glossy Aqua widgets that debuted back in 2000. The new progress bars look great, as do the more muted checkboxes and radio buttons. Also, it seems to me that buttons and forms are using a darker hue of blue.

[SoapyHamHocks Member]

This is looking amazing, love the button style and the noise on the toolbar backgrounds (Y).

[Elliott]

So cool. :D

[Quillz]

Okay, so it seems that iDisk isn't quite the same thing as AirDrop, though they seem like it to me, especially as iDisk can be shared publicly, right?

I really should be using iDisk in place of Dropbox, as it does all the same things for me.

[Rudy]

putting the app online is easy as pie, its getting the app into an iSO format and ridding the DRM protection that would be the tricky bit

edit: i stand corrected, seems this has already been accomplished (Y)

It's a shame, can the cracked version be installed stand alone or is it an update too?

I just purchased the dev preview and I have to admit I'm a bit disappointed I had to install 10.6 on a different partition first THEN upgrade :/ (I have to keep a clean 10.6 so I can continue developing for the AppStore)

[iuerg87yerg879e0rg9erugjer]

It's a shame, can the cracked version be installed stand alone or is it an update too?

I just purchased the dev preview and I have to admit I'm a bit disappointed I had to install 10.6 on a different partition first THEN upgrade :/ (I have to keep a clean 10.6 so I can continue developing for the AppStore)

10.6 is required as lion still uses a number of essential services that it uses from the snow leopard partition thus the reason why lion is installed ontop of leopard, though i have to thank apple for that, rather download 3.6Gb then 8-9Gb (Y)

[.Neo]

10.6 is required as lion still uses a number of essential services that it uses from the snow leopard partition thus the reason why lion is installed ontop of leopard, though i have to thank apple for that, rather download 3.6Gb then 8-9Gb (Y)

What you're saying doesn't make much sense. In the past Mac OS X Developer Previews have always been stand-alone installers, so there's no reason why this can't be the case with Mac OS X Lion. The only reason this Mac OS X Lion installer requires Mac OS X Snow Leopard is because Apple set it up that way. Not because there's some technical limitation. Next to that the full Mac OS X Snow Leopard Install DVD is less than 6,5 GB in size (not the 8-9 GB you're talking about). Even smaller when you exclude Xcode.

[iuerg87yerg879e0rg9erugjer]

In the past Mac OS X Developer Previews have always been stand-alone installers, so there's no reason why this can't be the case with Mac OS X Lion.

it could be an attempt to stop piracy of the developer previews, but apple has already failed with that

[Rudy]

Posting from Lion.... I must say the scrolling is odd :/ I'm glad I have the option to switch it.... it makes sense on my iPhone but not so much on my computer

[thefarewellnote]

Looks like it creates a recovery HD - when you hold down Option it appears. Sure that was one with SL but never saw it.

Also is it just me but there doesn't seem to be a way to exit dashboard without clicking a trackpad or clicking the keyboard. In SL you could click with a mouse to go back....

[kevpan815]

People, Keep In Mind That If You Submit Apps 2 Either The IOS App Store, The Mac App Store, Or Both: Apple Still Requires You 2 Use Both Snow Leopard And XCode 3.25 And/Or XCode 4.0 GM with IOS 4.2.1 GM 4 Your App Submissions, You Might Want 2 Think Twice About Replacing Snow Leopard With Lion Developer Preview As Your Primary Mac Operating System!

[Quillz]

10.6 is required as lion still uses a number of essential services that it uses from the snow leopard partition thus the reason why lion is installed ontop of leopard, though i have to thank apple for that, rather download 3.6Gb then 8-9Gb (Y)

But I installed Lion on a completely clean external drive that had nothing on it at all previously.

[Rudy]

People, Keep In Mind That If You Submit Apps 2 Either The IOS App Store, The Mac App Store, Or Both: Apple Still Requires You 2 Use Both Snow Leopard And XCode 3.25 And/Or XCode 4.0 GM with IOS 4.2.1 GM 4 Your App Submissions, You Might Want 2 Think Twice About Replacing Snow Leopard With Lion Developer Preview As Your Primary Mac Operating System!

Thanks for the reminder....

But can you PLEASE stop posting like that? Wtf is it supposed to be? Looks like a pain in the ass to capitalize everything PLUS it makes it harder to read

[Mr. Gibs]

though i have to thank apple for that, rather download 3.6Gb then 8-9Gb

Um the download size has nothing to do with the install size :/

I mean Windows 7 download is like 3.16GB

But can you PLEASE stop posting like that? Wtf is it supposed to be? Looks like a pain in the ass to capitalize everything PLUS it makes it harder to read

The numbers instead of words were worse imo :|

[Rudy]

After playing around with it for a bit I really wish I could set Launchpad permanently on my desktop :/

[PNWDweller]

If you have a Magic Mouse/Trackpad download Magicprefs, then you can install their plugin which emulates the launchpad. :)

It is called launchboard.

[mdtaUK]

As a designer, I am interested in finding out if this build of Lion, contains the x2 UI image resources, that this new HiDPI support requires. If so, I would love to see screenshots running in this double resolution, or even better, a zip with the extracted UI images, if any of the Leopard and Snow Leopard theming tools still work? PM me, get in touch via Twitter @mdtauk or reply here if you can help me out!

[celticpride678]

Lion does indeed drop support for Rosetta apps and there's no option to install it.

[Xtreme $niper]

I just noticed that they finally allow the ability to customize what the four finger swipe does. Looks like we'll finally be able to switch spaces via swiping without bloaty third party apps!

[strelok1911]

Can someone verify if the stupid bug regarding the mouse polling rate being over 125Hz, making the cursor jump all over the place, has been fixed?