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10.7 All the Little Things!
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Yes. They're rare, though. They usually happen in .1 or .2 releases to address major oversights. The Dashboard Manager in Tiger was added in a patch, and 10.5.2 added an option to disable the translucent menu bar, as well as reintroduced hierarchical folders in the dock, and sorting options for stacks. There may be more, but those are the ones that I remember.
Scrolling with inertia was added as an update to Snow Leopard. They do add some minor things from time to time, but not significant things (except the App Store, but that's not really part of the OS but a standalone app, even if it's integrated quite a lot).
10.2.4 added PDF workflows, before we had Automator; 10.2.6 changed to sunken widgets on brushed metal windows. A couple more
.Edit: Ooh and 10.3.5 added support for WPA wireless!
Yes, but don’t set your expectations high. Consider Lion is done for the next two years with nothing new coming.
Instead, shift your expectation to new apps that’ll be more innovative because of the new APIs in Lion.
I bet majority of people won’t recognize more than a few new features in Lion but will recognize a lot of new apps that are optimized for Lion only.
10.2.4 added PDF workflows, before we had Automator; 10.2.6 changed to sunken widgets on brushed metal windows. A couple more
Edit: Ooh and 10.3.5 added support for WPA wireless!
10.6.4 (?) added support for third-party applications to use the H.264 hardware acceleration API.
Can somebody check if this feature is still in the current state of Lion : In DP1 if you hover over an app icon in the Dock and with wheel moose scroll up you get that app's expose view regardless wether it is the front app or not.
If so I see it as the new modified approach to windows management.
I am ambivalent about Spaces being dropped for Mission Control but the option above is an acceptable alternative.
If so I see it as the new modified approach to windows management.
I am ambivalent about Spaces being dropped for Mission Control but the option above is an acceptable alternative.
It's still working in GM using a Magic Mouse: two fingers double tap on the icon.
I registered as a dev and paid $99 only to get the GM quickly so that I could have that nice Mt. Fuji picture on my desktop
But seriously, what I immediately love the most about the GUI of the Lion is the fullscreen mode. Really. It beats all the other graphic features combined.
But seriously, what I immediately love the most about the GUI of the Lion is the fullscreen mode. Really. It beats all the other graphic features combined.
I actually meant using the wheel on an old fashioned mouse but no mater....
Just looking at the expose setup in DP 1 again, with that action on the Dock icon for each app and, it is overall much neater than the set up in Older versions of OS X. Barring being attached to the old way of using spaces, it is better in that Expose is exclusive to each app. This means that there is less of a cluttered visual experience where before every window that was open from every app had to be seen. In Lion it is better because you generally know which app the window you are looking for hides in so you can Expose it through the Dock app icon. Another aspect which is better is that the Expose shows all the windows for the app no matter which Space they are in. Another nice touch is for apps like text edit where recent files also appear under the devising line for hidden windows.
Moving on to Mission Control, which I originally hated and if one is not hung up on having 16 spaces (4x4) for their workflow, it is in many ways more intuitive, keeping the more mundane task of moving stuff between space separate from Expose. In Lion you can grab just one window to move or all the windows for an app by dragging its icon. In the Leopards to move all windows you had to press some key or other, proving the point that it was a lot less intuitive because for the life of me i can't remember the operator key, I used it so rarely.
One other tidbit. In Finder when using the new arrangement feature where files are segregated into rows and appear in coverflow form, if you don't have one of the new fangled HIDs and just use an old fashioned mouse, you can scroll forward by clicking at the right hand side of the finder view row or back by doing so on the left. Nice touch.
Lastly, I an noticing as I type this some nice blue hatched underlining on some word as I type. Not red or green, just blue. What does this signify and what outrageous sin am I committing against the English language?
If you are in one space with an app and you double tap and icon of the app that has window on a different space the animation is funny. Spaces slide from one to the other in an unnatural way.
This pet peeve of mine has been fixed in Lion!
In Lion (GM) you can finally enable any columns you want in list view for search results (except version and comments) which also mean that you can sort the list by any of these criteria!
You could do the same in Tiger, but in Leopard the list view for search results was extremely crippled, you were limited to name, type and last opened (not even creation of modification date!). Snow leopard brought some columns back, like the creation and modification dates, but size and others were still disabled.
I had found a way to enable the other columns in SL by modifying a plist, but they were buggy. Sorting by size would yield inconsistent and weird results. Thank god they are back and work well in Lion!
Note: to have sortable columns in Lion's Finder you need to set the "Arrange by" menu to "none".
In Lion (GM) you can finally enable any columns you want in list view for search results (except version and comments) which also mean that you can sort the list by any of these criteria!
You could do the same in Tiger, but in Leopard the list view for search results was extremely crippled, you were limited to name, type and last opened (not even creation of modification date!). Snow leopard brought some columns back, like the creation and modification dates, but size and others were still disabled.
I had found a way to enable the other columns in SL by modifying a plist, but they were buggy. Sorting by size would yield inconsistent and weird results. Thank god they are back and work well in Lion!
Note: to have sortable columns in Lion's Finder you need to set the "Arrange by" menu to "none".
So much for going fully-naked in Safari.
It would be nice if it could be hidden/unhidden by a keystroke in fullscreen mode.
Command-D no longer works for "Don't Save" in TextEdit
For eons, I've been able to be in a TextEdit document and then extremely rapidly hit:
1. Command-W (to close the window)
2. Command-D (for "Don't Save")
In Lion, Command-D no longer works. I've tried a few other guesses, like Opt-Com-D, etc. but haven't found anything yet.
Works in Pages, Word, and other word-processing apps. Just not TextEdit.
That's it. Just reporting in. Carry on.
For eons, I've been able to be in a TextEdit document and then extremely rapidly hit:
1. Command-W (to close the window)
2. Command-D (for "Don't Save")
In Lion, Command-D no longer works. I've tried a few other guesses, like Opt-Com-D, etc. but haven't found anything yet.
Works in Pages, Word, and other word-processing apps. Just not TextEdit.
That's it. Just reporting in. Carry on.
i wish the finder in grid view still allows you to zoom in (using the pinch zoom gesture) at the icons. i liked looking at the HD applications icons. just one of the small but meaningful things in SL that is unfortunately not in lion
quick question about Lion, not sure if it was asked before but..can every app become full screen'd? or does the app need to be updated with that feature?
i.e do i need to wait for Microsoft to launch an update for Office for Mac, for Lion's features?
i.e do i need to wait for Microsoft to launch an update for Office for Mac, for Lion's features?