It won't be available as a user preference, and depending on the time schedule for 10.6 it could very well be that it won't be available in any Leopard update either.
It is confirmed that several icons have been bumped up to 512x512, the Icon Composer app now supports that format and has been (finally) redesigned (the one in Tiger still looks mostly like a port from OS 9), and some UI widgets have had their size increased as well. There's a screenshot on imageshack somewhere showing several widgets in better size. As for changing the scale value, however, that's still done through Quartz Debug, so for the time being, it is pure speculation whether or not Leopard final will have this as a user setting.
hmmm, just thinking. i think i have worked out why we got some features of leopard and not the rest.
i think apple know that they can safely reveal some of the best features now, and not when they release leopard, as they know M$ just physically cant workout how to do it untill vista is released well, i say released, i realy mean stabalised. apple also know that it will be a good 5 years before the next version of windos, and still ms wont be able to do it. this then means that if apple sticks to the same time table for major releases, say every 2 years, they will get further and further ahead.
probably non-sence.... if someone can make sence of it please...
hmmm, just thinking. i think i have worked out why we got some features of leopard and not the rest.
i think apple know that they can safely reveal some of the best features now, and not when they release leopard.
Aren't both those sentences contradicting. Maybe Apple actually does have some great features that they haven't showed us. Like maybe (MAYBE) ZFS, iChat features that interact with iPhone for VOIP, etc.
Spaces, if they fix a couple bugs I found. First, you can tell it to have certain apps follow you between all spaces. But currently, this doesn't seem to work for all windows of some applications (like Adium, the buddylist would follow, but not the message view). Also, windows of applications that are set to follow you aren't effected by Exposé's "Show Desktop" feature, which is kind of a deal breaker for me.
"SPACES" I've a few issues with it too. 1. Why does Steve get a black spaces navagation viewer, when we get a woosy 'lilac' one? 2. if you have a window set to full-screen and you move it from one space to another and try to line the space up for full-screen - the window should snap to the space, to auto-line-up perfectly for full-screen again. Thus far - these are my two main issues.
Emm...not the first time they have hid the UI from a developer's release.
Aqua is infamus for that. One year it was classic, the next boom, aqua.
UI changes is easily kept under the hood, unlike api sets and others which developers "need to know".
Well this is why WWDC is really for developers. Sure there's a lot of press, but almost everything is intended to get developers on board to use their api and what not.
GUI refinement can be changed, pulled, and swapped, very fast in the greater scheme of things.
I personally am not a GUI nazi, and don't really have any grips with 10.4, nor any grips with the dock. If you need something estatic, go to a 3rd party developer.
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No. Last I heard, It is confirmed.
It won't be available as a user preference, and depending on the time schedule for 10.6 it could very well be that it won't be available in any Leopard update either.
No. Last I heard, It is confirmed.
It is confirmed that several icons have been bumped up to 512x512, the Icon Composer app now supports that format and has been (finally) redesigned (the one in Tiger still looks mostly like a port from OS 9), and some UI widgets have had their size increased as well. There's a screenshot on imageshack somewhere showing several widgets in better size. As for changing the scale value, however, that's still done through Quartz Debug, so for the time being, it is pure speculation whether or not Leopard final will have this as a user setting.
If you're going to refresh the UI... the time to do it is when you introduce resolution independence into the OS.
Same mindset.
whats a springloaded dock?
whats a springloaded dock?
Like when you drag something to a folder in the finder and you hover over it and it opens for you. Like that except in the dock.
i think apple know that they can safely reveal some of the best features now, and not when they release leopard, as they know M$ just physically cant workout how to do it untill vista is released well, i say released, i realy mean stabalised. apple also know that it will be a good 5 years before the next version of windos, and still ms wont be able to do it. this then means that if apple sticks to the same time table for major releases, say every 2 years, they will get further and further ahead.
probably non-sence.... if someone can make sence of it please...
hmmm, just thinking. i think i have worked out why we got some features of leopard and not the rest.
i think apple know that they can safely reveal some of the best features now, and not when they release leopard.
Aren't both those sentences contradicting. Maybe Apple actually does have some great features that they haven't showed us. Like maybe (MAYBE) ZFS, iChat features that interact with iPhone for VOIP, etc.
Aqua is infamus for that. One year it was classic, the next boom, aqua.
UI changes is easily kept under the hood, unlike api sets and others which developers "need to know".
Well this is why WWDC is really for developers. Sure there's a lot of press, but almost everything is intended to get developers on board to use their api and what not.
GUI refinement can be changed, pulled, and swapped, very fast in the greater scheme of things.
I personally am not a GUI nazi, and don't really have any grips with 10.4, nor any grips with the dock. If you need something estatic, go to a 3rd party developer.