Unannounced (in Keynote) Leopard Features Compilation
I thought this would be a great topic itself so we wouldn't have to dig through all the "discussion" about said features.
I just went to check out Leopard Server and in the "Simple Setup" video, you'll notice that when they talk about the Dashboard widget, the screen is not darkened and no wheel thingy is visible.
So the first on the list
-Dashboard widgets on the desktop
Feel free expand this to include the ones hidden throughout Apple's site but not obvious in the Keynote.
Let's do a running tally so we can count for Steve.
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I just went to check out Leopard Server and in the "Simple Setup" video, you'll notice that when they talk about the Dashboard widget, the screen is not darkened and no wheel thingy is visible.
So the first on the list
-Dashboard widgets on the desktop
Feel free expand this to include the ones hidden throughout Apple's site but not obvious in the Keynote.
Let's do a running tally so we can count for Steve.
1
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From MacFixit:
- Safari 3.0 Type-as-You-Find internal search bar (and highlighting effect), batch bookmark adds, merge all windows option, ability to undo closing a tab
From Techpedia:
- Spring-loaded Dock (finally)
- Grid spacing preference for icons in Finder (finally)
- "Shared" and "guest" accounts
- New Help menu w/ search field in the menu itself
- Preview with Tiger Mail-style buttons and sidebar instead of drawer
- updated battery menu that shows "battery health"
...and more.
Enjoy 'em while they last.
Although you can currently detach widgets in Tiger, so it's not a sure thing... but it does makes sense that they'll introduce a better and easier way to do so.
What is a spring-loaded dock?
It means that if you drag a document onto a folder icon in the Dock, it will open up to let you drop the document in the folder. Same as springload on OS 8 and in the FInder in OS X.
In the Keynote it was said that you can search the Web with Spotlight - don't know if that was a slip or not?
You sure they said 'web' or did they say 'network' and you misremember? Network-wide Spotlight searching was announced.
Oh.. My...God..
So, hell really has frozen over...
Lets hope its actually implemented well!!!
I think they mentioned you could search internet search engine from Spotlight.
Steve said it was easier to search your computer than to search the web. He was referring to the current version of Spotlight.
I slipped up on that one too when he first said it
Steve said it was easier to search your computer than to search the web. He was referring to the current version of Spotlight.
I slipped up on that one too when he first said it
When Bertrand Serlet was comparing Spotlight to Vista's search, he said, "With Spotlight, finally, it?s easy to find information on your local disks and information on the web."
It's at about 25:25 in the keynote webcast video.
When Bertrand Serlet was comparing Spotlight to Vista's search, he said, "With Spotlight, finally, it?s easy to find information on your local disks and information on the web."
It's at about 25:25 in the keynote webcast video.
Indeed. I think there was also a mention of Google, but I could be mistaken.
[EXCLUSIVE] Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" Developer Improvements
Apple Computer's recently previewed Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" has made quite a stir, not because of what was shown at the World Wide Developer Conference but of what was excluded from show, cited "Top Secret". However, the build released to attendees at the conference includes a huge number of ground-breaking changes to the underlying technology in Mac OS X and the APIs exposed to developers.
As a world wide exclusive, AeroXP has received information detailing several of the API improvements to Leopard, detailed below:
* Complete 64-Bit support for Intel and PowerPC through all frameworks excluding QuickTime C, QuickDraw, Sound Manager, Code Fragment Manager, Language Analysis Manager and QuickTime Musical Instruments. These modules are deprecated and one should use the modern equivalents instead.
* Leopard will feature resolution-independent user interface and there are several functions to get the current scaling factor and apply it to pixel measurements. It is a good idea to use vector controls and buttons (PDF will work fine) or to have multiple sized resources, similar to Mac OS X icon design, so you can scale to the nearest size for the required resolution.
* Address Book adds support for sharing accounts, allowing an application to restrict content according to user.
* Automator includes a new user interface and allows things such as action recording, workflow variables and embedding workflows in other applications.
* Time Machine has an API that allows developers to exclude unimportant files from a backup set which improves backup performance and reduces space needed for a backup.
* A new Calendar Store framework allows developers access to calendar, event and task information from iCal to use in their applications or to add new events or tasks.
* Carbon, the set of APIs built upon Classic MacOS and used by most 3rd party high-profile Mac OS X applications, now allows Cocoa views to be embedded into the application. This could provide applications like Photoshop and Microsoft Office access to advanced functions previously only available to Cocoa applications.
* A new control for creating matrices of views is available, NSGridView. This allows a grid to be created from any view in the system, including OpenGL or Web Views.
* Core Animation allows layers to be used as backing stores for a view, windows to use explicit animations when resizing (can be three dimensional, akin to the Time Machine view). Any view can now be put into fullscreen mode and a CoreImage transition effect can be used. Using Core Animation you can create anything including GPU-accelerated Front Row-style user interfaces without having to write OpenGL code. A Core Animation layer can include OpenGL content, Core Image and Core Video filter effects and Quartz/Cocoa drawing content, like views and windows.
* Text engine improvements include a systemwide grammar checking facility, smart quote support, automatic link detection and support for copying and pasting multiple selections.
* Core Image has been upgraded to allow access to RAW images directly.
* Apache 2.0, Ruby on Rails and Subversion are included, and support for script-to-framework programming is available, allowing Python and Ruby scripting to access Mac OS X specific APIs.
* The iChat framework allows a developer to add shared content to an active iChat session, for example a video, an image slideshow or even an online multiplayer game.
* "Sharing accounts" are possible, with users being restricted via an access control list (ACL) to certain applications or files. Developers can integrate with this by restricting access to a specific piece of content by connecting it to a sharing account. Sharing accounts have no home folder.
* An Image Kit is included, to allow a developer to easily create an application that can browse, view, crop, rotate and pick images, then apply Core Image filter effects through an interface. A slideshow interface is also open to developers, allowing any application to display a fullscreen slideshow of images.
* Leopard also gives developers access to a "Latent Semantic Mapping" framework, which is the basis for spam protection in Mail. It allows you to analyze text and train the engine to restrict items with specific content (like spam e-mail for example).
* Mail stationery is open to developers, allowing any web designer to create fantastic-looking Mail templates, with defined areas for custom user content.
* A new framework is included for publishing and subscribing to RSS and Atom feeds, including complete RSS parsing and generation. Local feeds can be shared over Bonjour zero-configuration sharing and discovery.
* Quicktime 7.1 is included, and the underlying QTKit framework is greatly improved. There is improved correction for nonsquare pixels, use of the clean aperture which is the "user-displayable region of video that does not contain transition artifacts caused by the encoding process", support for aperture mode dimensions, improved pitch and rate control for audio and a number of developer improvements, like QuickTime capture from sources like cameras and microphones, full screen recording or QuickTime stream recording. Live content from a capture can be broadcast as a stream over the network.
Source: In-House Exclusive
Screenshots: Xray, Interface Builder, Dashcode
http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.ph...topic=5142&hl=
Hope this is all true , sounds great... now I'll leave before the geeks start getting weird
When Bertrand Serlet was comparing Spotlight to Vista's search, he said, "With Spotlight, finally, it?s easy to find information on your local disks and information on the web."
It's at about 25:25 in the keynote webcast video.
"With Spotlight, finally, it?s easier to find information on your local disks than information on the web."
He has a bit of an accent.
Nothing out of the ordinary..just plain ole goodness. Leopards got my money.
- Safari 3.0 Type-as-You-Find internal search bar (and highlighting effect), batch bookmark adds, merge all windows option, ability to undo closing a tab
- Spring-loaded Dock (finally)
- Grid spacing preference for icons in Finder (finally)
- Preview with Tiger Mail-style buttons and sidebar instead of drawer
See now why wouldn't they include those things in the keynote. They would've taken 5 minutes to mention. Steve could've put them in a "oh and one more thing" segment.
I hate that we have to wait until next year for this though. I was expecting it around November
It looks like someone let the cat out of the bag.. a bit!
Hope this is all true , sounds great... now I'll leave before the geeks start getting weird
Too late...
? Leopard will feature resolution-independent user interface and there are several functions to get the current scaling factor and apply it to pixel measurements. It is a good idea to use vector controls and buttons (PDF will work fine) or to have multiple sized resources, similar to Mac OS X icon design, so you can scale to the nearest size for the required resolution.
? Carbon, the set of APIs built upon Classic MacOS and used by most 3rd party high-profile Mac OS X applications, now allows Cocoa views to be embedded into the application. This could provide applications like Photoshop and Microsoft Office access to advanced functions previously only available to Cocoa applications.
? Time Machine has an API that allows developers to exclude unimportant files from a backup set which improves backup performance and reduces space needed for a backup.
? Core Image has been upgraded to allow access to RAW images directly
? Leopard also gives developers access to a "Latent Semantic Mapping" framework, which is the basis for spam protection in Mail. It allows you to analyze text and train the engine to restrict items with specific content(like spam e-mail for example).
? Quicktime 7.1 is included, and the underlying QTKit framework is greatly improved. There is improved correction for nonsquare pixels, use of the clean aperture which is the "user-displayable region of video that does not contain transition artifacts caused by the encoding process", support for aperture mode dimensions, improved pitch and rate control for audio and a number of developer improvements, like QuickTime capture from sources like cameras and microphones, full screen recording or QuickTime stream recording. Live content from a capture can be broadcast as a stream over the network.
* Address Book adds support for sharing accounts, allowing an application to restrict content according to user.
Eh? I think he had a major brain fart here.
Leopard Feature Set Leaked
It's from the 4th, so reliability can be questioned some, but it all looks pretty legit.