You don't like the new bar? Go spend an hour at a shrink if it bothers you so much. Does it function more effectively than the current one? Time will tell.
Just watched the keynote, the bar adapts to the background image, or thats what i think he says. Im not sure what exactly is adapting but it is doing something.
RI is there, they only had 90 minutes for the keynote and you can't cover every feature. I'm sure Apple's Q/A testers have tested the features with the dock pinned to other locations.
Don't expect to see RI in 10.5.0. Apple already said last year that developers had until late 2008 to make their apps 'RI ready'.
Just watched the keynote, the bar adapts to the background image, or thats what i think he says. Im not sure what exactly is adapting but it is doing something.
It adapts, as in no matter what color desktop picture you have on there, the bar is never the same color as it, hence it is always visible.
Has anyone here acctualy used Vista day-in-day-out? I did for 3 months at work, and it isnt that bad, slow and bulky, which is why I went back to XP, but I found the transparency to be easier on the eyes, I cant explain why, but I didn't need to look away from my screen nearly as often to avoid a headache.
I will not pass judgment on Leopard until I have some serious seat time with it, but it doesn't look bad at all -- My Macbook purchase has been pushed back to October.
Calm down, the menubar translucency can be turned off in Preferences, but I love it myself.
If, as the linked file suggests, Leopard is faster, the Finder is Cocoa based, multithreaded, and more responsive, then this alone will make it a worthy update. The Finder and its sidekick, the spinning beachball of death, are the bane of my otherwise blissful OS X experience. Hope Leopard changes this.
Idiots, if you don't like it, turn it off. Turning off transparency isn't the hardest, and maybe even an actually system preferences option
It's a consumer OS, thus as always it has to follow consumer level rules. This is why the 1st iMac pwned the beige. It must have function and style.
"There's nothing wrong with beige and dos! it's efficient!".
Same with the 3d dock and whatever other eye candy changes. I welcome it, If I don't like it, then it would be turned off.
My sister sets her background to change every 2 seconds. Sucks massive amounts of CPU/disk power, and hurts the eyes to me. But she likes it and that's all that matters.
The core ideals are improved in 10.5 That's all you can really ask for. A better dock, a better finder, etc etc etc.
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This seems like a change for the sake of changing.
RI is there, they only had 90 minutes for the keynote and you can't cover every feature. I'm sure Apple's Q/A testers have tested the features with the dock pinned to other locations.
Don't expect to see RI in 10.5.0. Apple already said last year that developers had until late 2008 to make their apps 'RI ready'.
Calm down, the menubar translucency can be turned off in Preferences, but I love it myself.
Just watched the keynote, the bar adapts to the background image, or thats what i think he says. Im not sure what exactly is adapting but it is doing something.
It adapts, as in no matter what color desktop picture you have on there, the bar is never the same color as it, hence it is always visible.
I will not pass judgment on Leopard until I have some serious seat time with it, but it doesn't look bad at all -- My Macbook purchase has been pushed back to October.
Anyone have pictures of this translusent bar?
Just have a look at the leopard site on www.apple.com
From the Apple demo video: "Drag any item on the desktop close to the Dock and it actually reflects on the new floor."
I defy anyone to read that and not despair.
This just seems like a useless resource draw on the GPU.
Guys, guys, guys..
Calm down, the menubar translucency can be turned off in Preferences, but I love it myself.
If, as the linked file suggests, Leopard is faster, the Finder is Cocoa based, multithreaded, and more responsive, then this alone will make it a worthy update. The Finder and its sidekick, the spinning beachball of death, are the bane of my otherwise blissful OS X experience. Hope Leopard changes this.
It's a consumer OS, thus as always it has to follow consumer level rules. This is why the 1st iMac pwned the beige. It must have function and style.
"There's nothing wrong with beige and dos! it's efficient!".
Same with the 3d dock and whatever other eye candy changes. I welcome it, If I don't like it, then it would be turned off.
My sister sets her background to change every 2 seconds. Sucks massive amounts of CPU/disk power, and hurts the eyes to me. But she likes it and that's all that matters.
The core ideals are improved in 10.5 That's all you can really ask for. A better dock, a better finder, etc etc etc.