Mac OS X Lion Discussion

[.Neo]

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.

I understand what you meant before, but how is the feature more apparent in Mac OS X Lion compared to Mac OS X Snow Leopard for example?

I think the correct term you're looking for is to stand out. :)

[PyX]

The file names in Snow Leopard are also compressed when reducing the column?s widths, but it?s not as intense as in Lion. As you say, it?s as if there was no space between Screen and Shot...

I understand what you meant before, but how is the feature more apparent in Mac OS X Lion compared to Mac OS X Snow Leopard for example?

Isn't the correct term "stand out" btw?

Yep, stand out, sorry. I?m having a hard day in English I guess :laugh:

It?s more apparent in the sense that it is more intuitive to make this Quick Look window appear. I?m wondering how many people knew about control + command + d.

[.Neo]

It?s more apparent in the sense that it is more intuitive to make this Quick Look window appear. I?m wondering how many people knew about control + command + d.

There's something going wrong in the way we communicate right now. I'll give it a third shot: What does Mac OS X Lion do to make access to the Dictionary pop-up window more intuitive compared to Mac OS X Snow Leopard? Through what other means can I make it appear in Mac OS X Lion beyond using the control + command + D keyboard shortcut?

[PyX]

There's something going wrong in the way we communicate right now. I'll give it a third shot: What does Mac OS X Lion do to make access to the Dictionary pop-up window more intuitive compared to Mac OS X Snow Leopard? Through what other means can I make it appear in Mac OS X Lion beyond using the control + command + D keyboard shortcut?

Ah, sorry my bad, the way you said "it?s not a Safari thing, it?s throughout the entire OS" made me think you realized that in Lion, you can use the "Look up" feature in the contextual menu. Boom, the popup window appears. No more control + command + d.

[.Neo]

Pressing "Look up in Dictionary" through the Safari contextual menu doesn't do anything over here. :laugh: It doesn't show the pop-up window, nor does it launch Dictionary. I've only been using the keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X Lion like I normally would in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

I'll be formatting my Mac tomorrow. It's not so much the bugs that bug me, but the fact most applications have a hard time on Mac OS X Lion. VMware Fusion fails to start my VMs, Transmission is unstable, both InDesign and Photoshop CS5 act quirky etc. Having to go back to Mac OS X Snow Leopard will suck though after running Mac OS X Lion intensively for the past few days. I don't want to see old Aqua again! Grrrrr :/

[Quillz]

In addition to the floating PDF controls not currently working in Safari 5.1, I've also come across a very minor UI bug when using the Reader feature:

The left side is fine, but you can see on the right the out-of-place white strip. It appears to be lacking the gradient that would make appear to be curling downward with the rest of the page elements.

[Ionium]

Will the bootcamp nagging issue be fixed at all? If not, then I won't purchase this.

[.Neo]

Will the bootcamp nagging issue be fixed at all? If not, then I won't purchase this.

What are you talking about?

[Elliott]

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.

They do expand. Click on one of the definitions and you get this:

[irunwithknives]

So i found an odd quirk

not really a bug or a feature as it relies on a mod

but

i followed instructions i found somewhere to make the Lauchpad icon have a "remove from dock" option in the context menu

and when it is not in the dock, you cannot move the finder icon, however you can move other icons to the left of it

useless

but

interesting nonetheless

just in case anyone was thinking about completely throwing themselves off by making that finder icon move around

[Rudy]

I didn't see it posted anywhere but the dialog that asks you if you want to save a file changed:

[Quillz]

I didn't see it posted anywhere but the dialog that asks you if you want to save a file changed:

I assume that text has yet to be updated, because I thought the whole point of Lion was even if you quit the app, your work is automatically saved.

Also, as a reminder to those with valid ADC accounts, remember you can use the Bug Tracker to also file unwanted changes or request a feature. I've already filed a report stating that the user should be able to assign a custom name to their Space/Desktop, especially with Mission Control making the generic "Desktop 1, 2, etc." more prominent.

[Rudy]

I assume that text has yet to be updated, because I thought the whole point of Lion was even if you quit the app, your work is automatically saved.

Also, as a reminder to those with valid ADC accounts, remember you can use the Bug Tracker to also file unwanted changes or request a feature. I've already filed a report stating that the user should be able to assign a custom name to their Space/Desktop, especially with Mission Control making the generic "Desktop 1, 2, etc." more prominent.

How would it save something you didn't name yet? Where would it put it?

[Quillz]

How would it save something you didn't name yet? Where would it put it?

Someone made a thread on another board about Versions, and apparently if you type something into TextEdit and don't actually save the file, quit the app and then open it again, "Untitled" simply reappears exactly where you left off, the text still in place. It's stored in memory somewhere. And that's why the save sheet seems to be wrong, since with Resume, apparently you can't lose data that you didn't manually save anymore.

[Rudy]

Someone made a thread on another board about Versions, and apparently if you type something into TextEdit and don't actually save the file, quit the app and then open it again, "Untitled" simply reappears exactly where you left off, the text still in place. It's stored in memory somewhere. And that's why the save sheet seems to be wrong, since with Resume, apparently you can't lose data that you didn't manually save anymore.

I got that sheet by pressing cmd-w not q ;) so that's probably why since it wouldn't save the state and I'm specifically asking to close that window

[PGHammer]

So Apple is ahead than Microsoft in dropping the 32bit processors in favor of the 64bit. Let see if Windows 8 will follow up.

Actually, the issue with Windows has not been the hardware base or the OEMs, but the enterprises and the installed user-base. While greater than half the Windows 7 OEM sales outside of Starter (which is x32-only) are 64-bit (and even Starter is only sold in developing markets and on netbooks), there's still a lot of x32 pre-7 out there, and that is especially true in enterprises - there are 64-bit-capable refurbs out there that are running Windows XP simply due to their age (and having the misfortune to predate the launch of Windows 7). While 64-bit-capable Intel CPUs became popular with Core, the architecture predates it - the first general-purpose x64 Intel desktop CPU that wasn't a XEON was in the LGA775 socket, but was a Pentium 4 Prescott (from the old Netburst architecture). The closest problem Apple has to that is the still-running base of G4 and G5 Power towers (none of which can run Lion, and some of which can't even run Leopard.

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[PGHammer]

cause osx doesn't have directx

OS X *does* have a largely-unified driver model - the only real difference software-wise between the CI/QE model and DirectX are the core building blocks. The difference is bigger in terms of *hardware* - Apple picks a lot of nits when it comes up the upgrade/aftermarket hardware market (far more than is the case for otherwise-identical PC hardware). Still, the OS X model is not as demanding on developers as is that of Windows (at any end - low, middle, or high) largely because there is no real high end when it comes to Mac-based games other than MMOs and Starcraft (note that both WoW and Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty sell quite well on the Mac). Also, the install is MUCH easier on a Mac. (In most cases: drag, drop, play.)

[Quillz]

I got that sheet by pressing cmd-w not q ;) so that's probably why since it wouldn't save the state and I'm specifically asking to close that window

Here's a really short video I did with TextEdit. It demonstrates how quitting the application will save any untitled work to memory. But then once it's actually saved and then you quit the app, it doesn't show up automatically unless opened the usual way.

EDIT: Didn't expect the video quality to be as awful as it appears. The TextEdit window is really tiny, too, sorry about that.

[CPressland]

Weird, today the GPU is using less memory and everything is 10x more stable... Background updates maybe?

[PyX]

No more Spotlight indexing maybe?

[KoL Veteran]

Weird, today the GPU is using less memory and everything is 10x more stable... Background updates maybe?

iStat Menus is working on Lion? Mine doesn't work.

[CPressland]

No more Spotlight indexing maybe?

No, CPU Use as been fine since the installation spotlighting only took a few minutes on the SSD, I'm talking about the GPU.... but speaking of, why isn't mdworker a darned Multithreaded Process yet?!

iStat Menus is working on Lion? Mine doesn't work.

Mine worked fine off the bat, but I have iStat Pro, apparently the Pro and Normal version follow different dev cycles.

[Xtreme $niper]

That doesn't look like iStat Pro... Looks like Menus to me. :unsure:

[CPressland]

*slaps head* I mean Menus! 'DARN YOU MULTITASKING BRAIN!!!'

[Quillz]

Cursors are now vector objects...