A developer friend of mine in the UFP has been "showing me the ropes" on this new Panther build. He's chosen to throw caution to the wind and share these tasty goodies with you all.
DVD Player When you start it up, the main window is full black and the text fades in. There's actually a LOT of fades in the system now. The controller fades in and out as well.
A few things first. The toolbar no longer takes files/folders to make shortcuts. Nada. You now use the lower part of the left pane for this. This really isn't so bad and when you get used to it, you see it's actually very well done. When you navigate to a folder that's in the pane, it highlights it as you'll see below. Even if you're originally navigating from another place in the hierarchy, when you get to, say, your home folder, the home folder highlights on the left. It probably looks better in person than it sounds.
Also, the concept of the top level of the computer is GONE. In the old Mac OS X, when you create a new window, it can either go home or to the "computer" and list all drives and that stupid network icon. That top "layer" is no more. Drives are now in that side pane and, if you want, on the desktop. The "home" is much better grounded as well. When you click your home on the left pane, for example, and you are using column view, it starts with your home folder at the root directory, not as /Users/yourname. This hides the multiuser filesystem very well and is surprisingly effective!
The Finder windows only *superficially* look like Windows. They don't act like Windows nearly as you might think.
Oh yeah, and it's *really* really threaded better this time. In Jaguar, loading my applications folder for the first time would make Finder hang for a couple seconds as it loaded my huge array of apps. In 10.3, the little wait spinner appears at the bottom center of the window where the status bar now is located and you can still click around and work for the brief period it's loading.
Finder - Get Info Note that ownership is slightly rearranged. the details part is not open by default when you click the ownership & permissions disclosure triangle
It's FINALLY a decent app. No more beach-balling for a minute while it sits there staring at you blankly trying to load. Now it loads up nearly instantly.
Help Viewer - main screen All new pages. They use CSS and links underline as you mouse around. Clearly we're seeing the fruits of KHTML here.
Preview - About box Notice how about boxes now contain descriptions for several apps? It's about time they started doing that.
QuickTime Player
Most significant change: saving supports long file names!! Cripes, we've gone through HOW MANY major version updates now and have been missing this "feature" that's been around since Mac OS 9?
I really, really, really appreciate this Brad! Will you marry me?
I'm guessing that the slightly darker and smoother (well QT 6.3 was already smoother) metal will be the new .nib for all metal apps in Panther. The Panther preview web page shows the same appearance for the OS X tab.
I'm curious as to what the unimplemented "navigation widget" is in Preview.
System Preferences - clock Note that Clock.app is not integrate here with the "in a window" toggle. No more eating Dock real estate with a simple clock!
System Profiler
Oh wow. This one has gotten a total rewrite. No more waiting and waiting and waiting like with the old Apple System Profiler. This new version loads instantly. Bam! It's there. It's ready.
Good point. Was hoping to pull this off on my wife's laptop without the need for installing another app on it...
She has several GB of archival quality scans of historical documents that are just too detailed (and therefore huge files) to work with. Open them in Preview (or GC), print them to PDF, concatenate with texexec, and suddenly they're 1/20 the size. Manageable for everyday work. But a pain to do manually.
Ah, if only you could access the guts of Preview from scripting. :P
Does anyone understand why they don't just go back to OS 9 style for windowing or at least open/save dialogs? Open/save dialogs absolutely SUCK in OS X, and it looks like they are getting even more cluttered in Panther.
And I will keep crying until Apple decides to put the close and resize widgets away from each other! And maybe puts some decorations on the widgets that show what they do!
And I will keep crying until Apple decides to put the close and resize widgets away from each other! And maybe puts some decorations on the widgets that show what they do!
Open/save dialogs absolutely SUCK in OS X, and it looks like they are getting even more cluttered in Panther.
Actually, I find the new open/save pane in Panther to be far better than both Jaguar's (obviously) and the wide array of inconsistent dialogs from OS9. It's the best one for Mac I've seen yet. Remember, you can't really judge these things until you try them firsthand.
Comments
Okay, where to begin? Alphabetical order.
Assorted images
About box
About box build
Updated Apple menu - force quit toggles to add the app name as you can see when you hold option key.
command-tab apps - if you cold command and move your mouse around, the mouse will select the apps too.
keyboard menu - has become a real .menu now.
fast user switching example
Activity Monitor
A very cool app and very useful too. I can see a lot of gurus falling in love with this baby.
Activity Viewer - CPU pane
Activity Viewer - System Memory pane
Activity Viewer - Disk Activity pane
Activity Viewer - Disk Usage pane
Activity Viewer - Network pane
Activity Viewer - customize toolbar
Activity Viewer - menu 1
Activity Viewer - menu 2
Activity Viewer - menu 3
Activity Viewer - menu 4
Activity Viewer - Process Info - Memory
Activity Viewer - Process Info - Statistics
Activity Viewer - Process Info - Open Files
Activity Viewer - Process Sampling in Progress
Activity Viewer - Process Sampling display
Activity Viewer - Process Sampling display 2
Activity Viewer - About Box
I'll be breaking up this information into several more posts to follow.
Several additions. My favorite: templates.
Address Book - main window, comes with an Apple entry
Address Book - Preferences, general
Address Book - Preferences, template
Address Book - Preferences, phone
Address Book - Preferences, vCard
Address Book - Preferences, LDAP
Address Book - distribution list
Address Book - About box
Console
Has received a facelift with some new controls.
Console - About box
Console - main window
Console - customize toolbar
Disk Utility
The average user now finally can toggle journaling! Also, new options to restore from images.
Disk Utility - Restore from image
Disk Utility - First Aid
Disk Utility - Journaling toggle!
Disk Utility - About box
Disk Utility - images menu
Dock
Minor changes. You can now close Finder windows and Hide apps through context menus.
Dock - Close
Dock - Hide also note new menu items for Terminal
Plenty more to come...
DVD Player When you start it up, the main window is full black and the text fades in. There's actually a LOT of fades in the system now. The controller fades in and out as well.
DVD Player - vertical controller
DVD Player - horizontal controller
DVD Player - main window
DVD Player - Preferences, player
DVD Player - Preferences, disc setup
DVD Player - Preferences, full screen
DVD Player - Preferences, windows
DVD Player - About box
Finder
A few things first. The toolbar no longer takes files/folders to make shortcuts. Nada. You now use the lower part of the left pane for this. This really isn't so bad and when you get used to it, you see it's actually very well done. When you navigate to a folder that's in the pane, it highlights it as you'll see below. Even if you're originally navigating from another place in the hierarchy, when you get to, say, your home folder, the home folder highlights on the left. It probably looks better in person than it sounds.
Also, the concept of the top level of the computer is GONE. In the old Mac OS X, when you create a new window, it can either go home or to the "computer" and list all drives and that stupid network icon. That top "layer" is no more. Drives are now in that side pane and, if you want, on the desktop. The "home" is much better grounded as well. When you click your home on the left pane, for example, and you are using column view, it starts with your home folder at the root directory, not as /Users/yourname. This hides the multiuser filesystem very well and is surprisingly effective!
The Finder windows only *superficially* look like Windows. They don't act like Windows nearly as you might think.
Oh yeah, and it's *really* really threaded better this time. In Jaguar, loading my applications folder for the first time would make Finder hang for a couple seconds as it loaded my huge array of apps. In 10.3, the little wait spinner appears at the bottom center of the window where the status bar now is located and you can still click around and work for the brief period it's loading.
Okay, on to the pics for now.
Finder - a new-style window
Finder - live search it's literally as fast as the filter in Mail and iTunes. Amazing.
Finder - customize toolbar
Finder - Get Info Note that ownership is slightly rearranged. the details part is not open by default when you click the ownership & permissions disclosure triangle
Finder - a selected icon
Finder - changing its name
Finder - context menu, choosing a label
Finder - the file now labeled, unselected
Finder - the file now labeled, selected
Finder - Folder Action Setup
Finder - Secure Empty Trash
Finder - File menu
Finder - Go menu
Finder - home, icon view
Finder - home, list view
Finder - home, column view (note what I mentioned above)
Finder - window WITHOUT toolbar and pane Simply click the toolbar widget to make them slide away.
Finder - window WITH toolbar and pane Clicking the toolbar widget again makes the window expand down and out to the left.
Finder - About box
I'm still less than half-way done here, folks.
Publishers are going to, well, Steve Jobs would probably say "shit their pants."
Font Book - main window
Font Book - with expanded disclosure triangles
Help Viewer
It's FINALLY a decent app. No more beach-balling for a minute while it sits there staring at you blankly trying to load. Now it loads up nearly instantly.
Help Viewer - main screen All new pages. They use CSS and links underline as you mouse around. Clearly we're seeing the fruits of KHTML here.
Help Viewer - About box
Help Viewer - Panther: What's new? There are lots of pages like this, actually.
Help Viewer - Solutions for common questions
Internet Connect
Now does VPN.
Internet Connect - Starting up
Internet Connect - Summary
Internet Connect - VPN sheet
Internet Connect - File menu
Internet Connect - Abotu box
Keychain
The Keychain Access app is the same, but here's an updated alert.
Keychain - yay, new icon
loginwindow
Now when you choose Log out, shut down, or restart, the dialog has a live countdown timer.
loginwindow - countdown
Ports Manager
The *nix folks should like this one...
Ports Manager - DarwinPorts Installer
Ports Manager - Ports Collection Browser
Ports Manager - customize toolbar
Down the rabbit hole...
It's fast.
Preview - Preferences, general
Preview - Preferences, images
Preview - Preferences, PDF
Preview - a window with toolbar
Preview - About box Notice how about boxes now contain descriptions for several apps? It's about time they started doing that.
QuickTime Player
Most significant change: saving supports long file names!! Cripes, we've gone through HOW MANY major version updates now and have been missing this "feature" that's been around since Mac OS 9?
QuickTime Player - first window note the new skin
QuickTime Player - About box
QuickTime Player - Preferences Same old stuff
QuickTime Player - a movie Playback is good, but it's a little buggy and stutters at times.
QuickTime Player - save OMG OMG OMG OMG
QuickTime Player - that saved file It actually worked. Oh yes.
Sherlock
Has a slightly updated layout.
Sherlock - Main window
Sherlock - About box
Sherlock - Preferences
"System Preferences" is next. I really hope you guys appreciate this!!
I'm guessing that the slightly darker and smoother (well QT 6.3 was already smoother) metal will be the new .nib for all metal apps in Panther. The Panther preview web page shows the same appearance for the OS X tab.
I'm curious as to what the unimplemented "navigation widget" is in Preview.
Mostly the same stuff, just rearranged. Though, there are some new goodies.
System Preferences - screen saver
System Preferences - desktop
System Preferences - display
System Preferences - schedule Scheduled start-ups!
System Preferences - keyboard shortcuts Some serious customization.
System Preferences - keyboard shortcuts continued.
System Preferences - keyboard shortcuts add shortcut popup menu in that sheet.
System Preferences - printing
System Preferences - printer info opens after clicking set up printers
System Preferences - accounts, password
System Preferences - accounts, picture
System Preferences - accounts, security
System Preferences - accounts, startup items
System Preferences - accounts, limitations
System Preferences - accounts, login options
System Preferences - clock Note that Clock.app is not integrate here with the "in a window" toggle. No more eating Dock real estate with a simple clock!
System Profiler
Oh wow. This one has gotten a total rewrite. No more waiting and waiting and waiting like with the old Apple System Profiler. This new version loads instantly. Bam! It's there. It's ready.
System Profiler - hardware
System Profiler - memory
System Profiler - PCI/AGP cards
System Profiler - IDE (ATA)
System Profiler - SCSI
System Profiler - USB
System Profiler - Applications
System Profiler - Extensions
System Profiler - Network
System Profiler - Logs
System Profiler - About box
System Profiler - Frameworks
One more post should do it...
Gets a little bit more Aquafied.
TextEdit - default text document
TextEdit - About box
TextEdit - Spacing menu
TextEdit - Spacing "other" sheet
TextEdit - Styles menu
TextEdit - Styles "other" sheet
TextEdit - mini save sheet
TextEdit - expanded *new* save sheet, list view
TextEdit - expanded *new* save sheet, column view
TextEdit - save as... Word fomat?
TextEdit - Yes it does!
TextEdit - save plain text
TextEdit - change writing direction
And last but not least, an example of the screen you get when you try the past-user switching:
Switch users login screen After entering this, it uses the rotating cube transition like Keynote. It's very slick!
If you've got any other specific questions or requests for screenshots and information, feel free to post them.
It looks like TextEdit can continue to be my word processor of choice!
Q: Is Preview scriptable? (On a related note... anyone know how to batch convert .tif files to .pdf *without* Preview?
Originally posted by Kickaha
(On a related note... anyone know how to batch convert .tif files to .pdf *without* Preview? )
You haven't tried GraphicConverter? It'll do the job super-easy.
She has several GB of archival quality scans of historical documents that are just too detailed (and therefore huge files) to work with. Open them in Preview (or GC), print them to PDF, concatenate with texexec, and suddenly they're 1/20 the size. Manageable for everyday work. But a pain to do manually.
Ah, if only you could access the guts of Preview from scripting. :P
Originally posted by Brad
TextEdit - save as... Word fomat?
TextEdit - Yes it does!
can you open word files as well??!?!?!?! FREE WORD CONVERTER WITH PANTHER!!!... now if only there was a cheap version of FMP with excel support...
Does anyone understand why they don't just go back to OS 9 style for windowing or at least open/save dialogs? Open/save dialogs absolutely SUCK in OS X, and it looks like they are getting even more cluttered in Panther.
And I will keep crying until Apple decides to put the close and resize widgets away from each other! And maybe puts some decorations on the widgets that show what they do!
Originally posted by Gizzmonic
And I will keep crying until Apple decides to put the close and resize widgets away from each other! And maybe puts some decorations on the widgets that show what they do!
Think traffic light...
Originally posted by Gizzmonic
Open/save dialogs absolutely SUCK in OS X, and it looks like they are getting even more cluttered in Panther.
Actually, I find the new open/save pane in Panther to be far better than both Jaguar's (obviously) and the wide array of inconsistent dialogs from OS9. It's the best one for Mac I've seen yet. Remember, you can't really judge these things until you try them firsthand.