I found the menubar translucent toggle in Desktop / Screen Saver prefs. I disabled translucent and the menubar AA text is fixed... however the AA text in the menus is still messed up. Gonna try the graphics update and see if that helps. When you disable the translucent menubar, the dropshadow stands out more. Makes it very UGLY and distracting imo. I tried the graphics update, didn't fix it. How did apple miss something like this? I've had multiple problems in 20 minutes with this update. /shakes head.
I can't believe apple missed this many things. I smell an incremental update coming very quickly.
You can never know if the problems people cite are due to the Apple update or to some system modification by the end user. But in any case, this is the biggest in complexity Mac OS X point update so far, so there may be indeed many missed things. I will wait anyway before updating.
There is now an option in System Preferences => Desktop for turning Menu bar translucency on and off, but that won't affect the drop-down and contextual menus. They do seem less "translucency" than before. No way to change that until a hack comes around.
My Menu Bar text looks the same. It does seem less snappier than 10.5.1 and programs are taking much longer to open. I've open up everything in my Applications folder and I'm now going to restart. Perhaps it will feel the same after that.
why do u guys have a probelm with it being translucent? looks fine to me.
After installing the Graphics update and doing a soft reboot from the desktop it no longer seems to be sluggish. I can't say it's faster than, but the UI feels 'as' fast as 10.5.1.
I don't know if this is new or not... but I just discovered that command-clicking on a "stack" opens the Finder window. Thank god!!! So annoying always having to open the stack and then click the "show in finder" button.
ok. cool. still... very glad I discovered that. oh... and I LOVE the new "view as folder" option. I find it a lot easier to recognize at a glance which stack is my apps and which is downloads and which is docs... etc. I could never keep them straight before. Usually had to roll-over first to see which stack was which.
My MacBook AIR didn't want to Log out after the download.. it as just hanging.. had to do a forced restart.. ran Software Update again.. installed fine. After restart it hang again and it restarted twice.. No everything seems OK.
i just updated macbook and 24 inch white imac. i don't see any issues at all. speed is at least as good. i like solid menu and stacks as list. no problem for me ??? i just did software update and then restarted 1 extra time to see how it boots.
My MacBook AIR didn't want to Log out after the download.. it as just hanging.. had to do a forced restart.. ran Software Update again.. installed fine. After restart it hang again and it restarted twice.. No everything seems OK.
My AIR installed fine with no problems.
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I found the menubar translucent toggle in Desktop / Screen Saver prefs. I disabled translucent and the menubar AA text is fixed... however the AA text in the menus is still messed up. Gonna try the graphics update and see if that helps. When you disable the translucent menubar, the dropshadow stands out more. Makes it very UGLY and distracting imo. I tried the graphics update, didn't fix it. How did apple miss something like this? I've had multiple problems in 20 minutes with this update. /shakes head.
Heh you beat me
i have no idea why anyone was complaining about the translucent bar??? i have the desktop set to change every minute and i think it looks cool that it shows through the bar. no visibility problems what-so-ever... some of you guys need to lay off the meds!
also, stacks worked fine for me! was never crippled. i like the fan view.
i just don't get some people, they whine about anything and everything, lol...
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ok. cool. still... very glad I discovered that. oh... and I LOVE the new "view as folder" option. I find it a lot easier to recognize at a glance which stack is my apps and which is downloads and which is docs... etc. I could never keep them straight before. Usually had to roll-over first to see which stack was which.
I never had that problem. Did you know if you right click a stack it gives options for sorting, etc... I was able to always keep mine organized and use stacks all the time, its become an indespensible part of my daily life just like expose. I never saw a problem there, in fact I am still going to use it as a fan, and its gonna be organized regardless...
The server version only has 3 server specific improvements
Software Update Server
Addresses an issue which could prevent Software Update Server from working properly on a system that had been upgraded from Mac OS X Server 10.4.x.
Mail Server
Addresses an issue in which Virtual Mail users were required to have short names configured in order to become active.
Password Server
Addresses an issue that could block object changes from being propagated to Open Directory replica servers.
Although on my server I now have a Time Machine icon in the menubar, This is an Advanced configuration server so Time Machine wasn't previously available/recommended, does anyone know if that has changed?
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I found the menubar translucent toggle in Desktop / Screen Saver prefs. I disabled translucent and the menubar AA text is fixed... however the AA text in the menus is still messed up. Gonna try the graphics update and see if that helps. When you disable the translucent menubar, the dropshadow stands out more. Makes it very UGLY and distracting imo. I tried the graphics update, didn't fix it. How did apple miss something like this? I've had multiple problems in 20 minutes with this update. /shakes head.
Heh you beat me
I can't believe apple missed this many things. I smell an incremental update coming very quickly.
iSync seems to launch for me.
I can't believe apple missed this many things. I smell an incremental update coming very quickly.
You can never know if the problems people cite are due to the Apple update or to some system modification by the end user. But in any case, this is the biggest in complexity Mac OS X point update so far, so there may be indeed many missed things. I will wait anyway before updating.
There is now an option in System Preferences => Desktop for turning Menu bar translucency on and off, but that won't affect the drop-down and contextual menus. They do seem less "translucency" than before. No way to change that until a hack comes around.
My Menu Bar text looks the same. It does seem less snappier than 10.5.1 and programs are taking much longer to open. I've open up everything in my Applications folder and I'm now going to restart. Perhaps it will feel the same after that.
why do u guys have a probelm with it being translucent? looks fine to me.
Will do another GeekBench and Xbench test.
Wooooooooooohoooooooooooooo! I'm so happy, I'm pooping in my pants!
Congratulations on the newest addition to your family.
My MacBook AIR didn't want to Log out after the download.. it as just hanging.. had to do a forced restart.. ran Software Update again.. installed fine. After restart it hang again and it restarted twice.. No everything seems OK.
My AIR installed fine with no problems.
I found the menubar translucent toggle in Desktop / Screen Saver prefs. I disabled translucent and the menubar AA text is fixed... however the AA text in the menus is still messed up. Gonna try the graphics update and see if that helps. When you disable the translucent menubar, the dropshadow stands out more. Makes it very UGLY and distracting imo. I tried the graphics update, didn't fix it. How did apple miss something like this? I've had multiple problems in 20 minutes with this update. /shakes head.
Heh you beat me
i have no idea why anyone was complaining about the translucent bar??? i have the desktop set to change every minute and i think it looks cool that it shows through the bar. no visibility problems what-so-ever... some of you guys need to lay off the meds!
also, stacks worked fine for me! was never crippled. i like the fan view.
i just don't get some people, they whine about anything and everything, lol...
ok. cool. still... very glad I discovered that. oh... and I LOVE the new "view as folder" option. I find it a lot easier to recognize at a glance which stack is my apps and which is downloads and which is docs... etc. I could never keep them straight before. Usually had to roll-over first to see which stack was which.
I never had that problem. Did you know if you right click a stack it gives options for sorting, etc... I was able to always keep mine organized and use stacks all the time, its become an indespensible part of my daily life just like expose. I never saw a problem there, in fact I am still going to use it as a fan, and its gonna be organized regardless...
Wireless issues appear fixed!
No iSync problems (I don't use iDisk so can't comment.. but sync is fine)
Can someone tell me where you toggle the menubar being transluscent vs solid?
Not me. But I bet it's fairly easy to do through the command line if you Google it,
Edit: I misread the question. Thought you wanted to change the degree of transparency, not just have it "on" or "off".
Software Update Server
Addresses an issue which could prevent Software Update Server from working properly on a system that had been upgraded from Mac OS X Server 10.4.x.
Mail Server
Addresses an issue in which Virtual Mail users were required to have short names configured in order to become active.
Password Server
Addresses an issue that could block object changes from being propagated to Open Directory replica servers.
Although on my server I now have a Time Machine icon in the menubar, This is an Advanced configuration server so Time Machine wasn't previously available/recommended, does anyone know if that has changed?