I don't know if this has been posted yet, but when you have auto-hide enabled for the dock and you are in full-screen mode in an app (like safari), the dock will now stay hidden even if you move your mouse to the edge of the screen. This is new as of DP5 so far as I can tell. One thing worth nothing, if you Airplay Extend your desktop, the feature doesn't work anymore and moving your mouse to the edge of the screen will make the dock appear, even when in full-screen mode. So it looks like this feature has only been partially implemented. Nevertheless it's a nice little enhancement.
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10.9 All the Little Things!
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Either I'm not expressing myself clearly enough, or my systems are behaving abnormally. But here is the difference I am seeing, check to see if you can replicate it. In 10.8 and 10.9 turn on the option to auto-hide the dock. Now open an app in full-screen mode. In 10.8, you can still make the dock show up if you move your mouse to the edge of the screen or slightly beyond it. In other words, you can have the dock overlay itself upon the full-screened app. In 10.9 you cannot make the dock show over the full screen app at all. There is no mouse movement that will bring the dock out of its hiding. Your only option is to go to another desktop that isn't in full-screen mode or launch mission-control. So in 10.9 dp5 it seems like the dock remains even more hidden than in previous builds (which IMO is a neat new feature).
Nope. In 10.9 move your mouse to the edge where the dock is then slowly continue to move the mouse outward and the dock will appear.
Ok so I tested it more extensively and it seems like there must be a bug, either only on my system, or in DP5. If I turn auto-hide on and position the dock on either the left or bottom, then I cannot make the dock appear, but interestingly, if I position the dock on the right, I can make it appear. If I turn on Airplay extending, I can always make it appear, and in 10.8 I can always make it appear. So thanks for testing it on your end.
I tried to download OS X Mavericks but it's annoying that instead of updating directly from DP1 to DP6 I had to update to DP2, then to DP3. Plus the beta is very laggy. So I deleted the partition that I used to install 10.9 on and I am using Mountain Lion right now. It's weird. Both iOS 7 and 10.9 are very laggy. I guess it's because it's a beta, but beta 6 iOS 7 is still very laggy on my iPT 5. Hope there will be no issues in the final release of both.
Management of Safari web-plugins has changed in DP6. Now when you click on a Flash video that's been blocked the options are between trust and cancel, and in the menu to manage them (in preferences) you have the option between ask, block, allow, and always allow, and run in unsfade mode, for the respective sites.
Also, now no matter where I place my dock in DP6, left, right, or bottom, when in full-screen mode moving the mouse to the edge and beyond is not bringing it up, it's staying hidden.
Dunno if this new, didn't see it before, but Time Machine preferences now has an option, in options, to turn on backups when on battery power (so presumably if this is not checked no backups when on battery power, which is default option).
Also, now no matter where I place my dock in DP6, left, right, or bottom, when in full-screen mode moving the mouse to the edge and beyond is not bringing it up, it's staying hidden.
Dunno if this new, didn't see it before, but Time Machine preferences now has an option, in options, to turn on backups when on battery power (so presumably if this is not checked no backups when on battery power, which is default option).
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Can't speak specifically towards animations but the entire OS feels much smoother. DP5 was kinda shaky for me in many regards, apps were slower to launch, Finder was very slow, and mission control wasn't as smooth as it ought to be. Now everything seems more responsive. (Except for iBooks it's wretched)
Going in and out of full-screen on my RMBP is about 1 second (tried safari, mail, calendar and iTunes). Mission control is pretty much instantaneous now.
Good. Two more things. Can you time the login animation for me?
Also can you make a safari window or any app actually that uses the full screen button and make it as small as possible. Then hit the full screen button. And time it with a stopwatch.
After that will you make it a window as big a possible without going full screen (expand it manually till your desktop is 100 % covered) and time the animation as well when you hit the full screen button.
A lot to ask but I won't be at a computer running 10.9 for a long while.
Basically, when I did this in Dp5 i think or Ml cant remember the animations were a little different with the smaller windows having a slightly faster animation and the bigger windows being slower ironically. My hope is that it is one second regardless of size.
Hopefully this is the case across older computers like mine.
I'll have to check login another time as I'm running some processes in the background, but as far as the other question.
Going from smallest Safari window to full-screen: 1.2s.
Going from maximal Safari window to full-screen: 0.7s.
Where find it ?
Are you a developer? If so it's in the dev centre. If you have Mavericks installed already, select Software Update from the Apple menu.
