Mac OS X Lion Discussion

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PyX

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lol?

Youd buy a mac just because of some silly folder animation?

Who said that!?

By the way, according to MacRumors, features from QuickTime 7 that weren?t in QuickTime X are now there... I can?t say I?ve seen them so far.

I?d like to open the Font Book application, I know it?s at its 3rd version and Snow Leopard is 2.2, and I hope they have refreshed it into a whole new state of the art app. The current one looks boring and old...

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.Neo

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It's a bug, because sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. :p Happens a lot in Safari too.

I doesn't seem to happen in any application if you have the status bar enabled though. I'm pretty much done playing with Mac OS X Lion. I think it's time to do an Erase & Install of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. :p I wish I could port some of the system elements over, but ThemePark can't properly read the new ArtFile.bin. :(

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I?d like to open the Font Book application, I know it?s at its 3rd version and Snow Leopard is 2.2, and I hope they have refreshed it into a whole new state of the art app. The current one looks boring and old...

One huge feature (I don't think this was in Snow Leopard?) that'll probably make me drop Fontcase: automatic activation of fonts on demand.

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PyX

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One huge feature (I don't think this was in Snow Leopard?) that'll probably make me drop Fontcase: automatic activation of fonts on demand.

Not bad !

Thanks for making me remember about Font Case, that?s what I wanted to compare the new Font Book to, now THAT was an application :laugh: But I?m not getting my hopes up for now...

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Safari's built in dictionary has seen a slight change, i don't think it previously gave you wikipedia descriptions either?

I noticed this, too, and I like it. The white HUD is really starting to grow on me, it does look nice. I thought it would have been kind of neat if each little sub-section of the Dictionary HUD could be scrolled downward to read the end of the definitions, but it doesn't do that.

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PyX

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Safari's built in dictionary has seen a slight change, i don't think it previously gave you wikipedia descriptions either?

Dictionary.app does incorporate Wikipedia, and I have never ever seen a bubble like this one in Snow Leopard, it?s a very nice change :)

Next time I boot it up, I need to see if Dictionary.app supports other languages than English. I had to hack it to add a French dictionary to it, but it really, really sucks for a dictionary. Looooooooong and hard to understand definitions, compact text, and sometimes they don?t really have anything to do with the word. I wanted to uninstall it once, but I?m being too lazy.

Edit : Nope, it doesn't have other languages than English, British, Japanese and IT.

And Font Book doesn't have enough interesting changes.

But both applications have seen a few minor UI tweaks.

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.Neo

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Dictionary.app does incorporate Wikipedia, and I have never ever seen a bubble like this one in Snow Leopard, it?s a very nice change :)

The pop-up window has been there since Mac OS X Tiger, which introduced Dictionary in 2005. So it's not a new feature, it just got a new look and shows additional information. Press down control + command + D to bring it up while hovering over a word in whatever application that uses native interface APIs.

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The pop-up window has been there since Mac OS X Tiger, which introduced Dictionary in 2005. So it's not a new feature, it just got a new look and shows additional information. Press down control + command + D to bring it up while hovering over a word in whatever application that uses native interface APIs.

lol, been using OS X for more than three years now and never knew that. They couldn't make it any less obvious could they? :p The box in SL is too small really anyway. That Lion screenshot above looks pretty hot.

In case anyone's wondering what it looks like pre-Lion:

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PyX

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Oh yeah I remember about that shortcut for the little popup window.

I much prefer Lion?s implementation though. They actually put this feature on the front, unlike what it was when we had to press control + command + d.

And yeah this is retarded because the definitions and the formatting in this application are purely awesome, it is a waste not to include more languages. I really wish we had French, Spanish, German, etc.

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PyX

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What do you mean with the last part?

Damn it, I knew this wasn?t an english term :p

What I mean is, they make the feature stand up (I found what I wanted to say :laugh: ) compared to what it was before with the obscure shortcut. If you hadn?t told me, I would never have known about it and would have kept using "Look up in Dictionary", which does the same thing, but actually opens that application.

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Quillz

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One thing I've noticed is that file names will now have less spacing between the letters in an effort to fit more of the file name on a sheet before it has to be wrapped or hidden:

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Even though the file name is "Screen Shot," it shows up as "ScreenShot" to avoid hiding the file name as much as possible.

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