What's more interesting (if no hoax) are the tabbed Finder windows. We also see darker window colors and an icon that suggests a merger of Address Book and iCal.
I'm hoping this isn't a hoax because the metal has finally stopped looking ugly in that screenshot.
But I really sort of worry, what will make developers want to develop for Mac when it's this easy to run Windows programs?
Now for the details: I spy with my little eye a Boot Camp-related menubar item, what seems to be a menubar item performing the same task as the number-switcher 1-2 on the screen, and a new drop-down menu next to the Actions button on the Finder window, probably just a path hierarchy that drops down but regrouped.
Nice folder-bookmarks, I bet they drop down to be a browsable folder hierarchy.
And, of course, tabbed finder. I wonder when they'll just group Finder and Safari together, yeesh. (yeah, sounds familiar)
Its a fake simply because as others have pointed out that it's a desktop background.
I really think the idea of basically making the finder into a "surf your hard drive like you surf the web" kinda deal. Tabs for quick folder access, bookmark certain key points on your drive.
Maybe it could go a step further and really integrate with iWeb!
Example: Create finder pages for you hard drive that will render like any other webpage but are just a new way to interact and see your documents. Thus allowing you to truly theme you finder. Just write a webpage in iWeb!
I will believe this is real. What I would have liked to have seen is a Windows app that had focus so I could see what Apple's menu bar looks like. Does the apple turn into a window? Will menu items show on the menu bar or will just the name of the application show along with the OS in brackets like:
Microsoft Access 2003 [Windows XP Home SP2]
If just the name shows will we at least get a "Quit [App Name]" and maybe the Hide [App Name]/Hide Others/Show All group?
Well, obviously! You could write the shittiest piece of word processing, refuse to adhere to any standards, come up with a buggy parser for a terribly-designed proprietary, binary and closed format, and piss off all your customersÂ?
Â?but if only you added notification support with helpful notices Ã* la "You just finished writing another sentence", your software would sell like hotcakes.
The icon of the alleged iCal/Address Book unified app keeps the big "@" symbol of address book, which relegates the "todays date" display of the iCal icon to a tiny tiny unreadable font at the bottom-- which completely eliminates any advantage of having the current date on the dock icon in the first place.
It's a trivial thing, but there is simply no way Apple would do this-- indeed, there is no reason for anyone to do this, unless that someone was mocking up a screenshot and they wanted to make it clear that a rumored merged app was one of the "new things".
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I'm hoping this is not a hoax, cause I love it!!
But I really sort of worry, what will make developers want to develop for Mac when it's this easy to run Windows programs?
Now for the details: I spy with my little eye a Boot Camp-related menubar item, what seems to be a menubar item performing the same task as the number-switcher 1-2 on the screen, and a new drop-down menu next to the Actions button on the Finder window, probably just a path hierarchy that drops down but regrouped.
Nice folder-bookmarks, I bet they drop down to be a browsable folder hierarchy.
And, of course, tabbed finder. I wonder when they'll just group Finder and Safari together, yeesh. (yeah, sounds familiar)
I really think the idea of basically making the finder into a "surf your hard drive like you surf the web" kinda deal. Tabs for quick folder access, bookmark certain key points on your drive.
Maybe it could go a step further and really integrate with iWeb!
Example: Create finder pages for you hard drive that will render like any other webpage but are just a new way to interact and see your documents. Thus allowing you to truly theme you finder. Just write a webpage in iWeb!
http://oregonstate.edu/~dowdyg/Other/iWebFinder.jpg
I'm dubious.
Originally posted by Placebo
But I really sort of worry, what will make developers want to develop for Mac when it's this easy to run Windows programs?
The availability of sophisticated frameworks such as Growl and Sparkle, for one.
I'm inclined to agree, though, that the risk is too high. Cf. OS/2.
Microsoft Access 2003 [Windows XP Home SP2]
If just the name shows will we at least get a "Quit [App Name]" and maybe the Hide [App Name]/Hide Others/Show All group?
Originally posted by Chucker
The availability of sophisticated frameworks such as Growl and Sparkle, for one.
I'm inclined to agree, though, that the risk is too high. Cf. OS/2.
Actually, OS/2 died out because of it's price. By the time OS/2 finally got around to supporting Windows apps, it was already pretty much dead.
Originally posted by Chucker
The availability of sophisticated frameworks such as Growl and Sparkle, for one.
I'm inclined to agree, though, that the risk is too high. Cf. OS/2.
Yeah, Growl just turns it all around.
Originally posted by Placebo
We don't know exactly what that morph-through-the-center function is, so we can't really judge whether the menubar and dock should be affected by it.
It seems to suggest a transition between multiple desktops. At least that was my impression.
If that is the case, I would think the dock and menubar don't necessarily need to be affected by the animation.
That's not to say, however, that I'm throwing my hat in with the "it's real" crowd.
Originally posted by Placebo
Yeah, Growl just turns it all around.
Well, obviously! You could write the shittiest piece of word processing, refuse to adhere to any standards, come up with a buggy parser for a terribly-designed proprietary, binary and closed format, and piss off all your customersÂ?
Â?but if only you added notification support with helpful notices Ã* la "You just finished writing another sentence", your software would sell like hotcakes.
Obviously.
Originally posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R
I'd pay $129 just to have no f%$#ing brushed metal!
Unsanity's Shapeshifter won't do that? (I don't have it but assume it must.) Could save you $109....
I'm calling foul on the screenshots.
--B
It's fake 'cuz there's no way to resize the sidebar in the Finder (or at least not grab handles...this would be very un-Apple like).
It's fake because Core Duos only take DDR2.
It's fake because Apple never puts the version number on dev builds until RC.
Tabs in the Finder? Gimme a break.
Instead, they are showing 3 of the most common "I WISH APPLE WOULD . . ." requests people whine about all the time.
If Apple is really going to 'fix' the Finder - we'll see it.
Adding tabs and favorites does nothing for the issues or really improving how we interact with it.
It's a trivial thing, but there is simply no way Apple would do this-- indeed, there is no reason for anyone to do this, unless that someone was mocking up a screenshot and they wanted to make it clear that a rumored merged app was one of the "new things".