New in Developer Preview 2

[WeegieMac]

Do Folders in Launchpad open/close smoothly now?

The animation was very juddery in the first build, like it skipped animation frames.

 

[dago]

Scene Kit

Apple has never mentioned the new "Scene Kit" before:

Introduced in Mac OS X v10.7, the Scene Kit framework enables your application to import, manipulate, and render three-dimensional assets. It supports 3D assets imported via COLLADA, an XML-based schema that facilitates the transport of 3D assets between applications. Architecturally, a scene is composed of the 3D entities of cameras, lights, and meshes. Scene Kit lets you access attributes of scene objects—for example, geometry, bounding volume, and material—and is consistent with the APIs of other graphical frameworks, such as Core Animation and Image Kit.

Scene Kit is intended for developers who quickly need to integrate 3D rendering into their applications. It doesn’t require that you have advanced graphical programming skills.

 

[abhimat.gautam]

Apple has never mentioned before the new "Scene Kit":

Introduced in Mac OS X v10.7, the Scene Kit framework enables your application to import, manipulate, and render three-dimensional assets. It supports 3D assets imported via COLLADA, an XML-based schema that facilitates the transport of 3D assets between applications. Architecturally, a scene is composed of the 3D entities of cameras, lights, and meshes. Scene Kit lets you access attributes of scene objects—for example, geometry, bounding volume, and material—and is consistent with the APIs of other graphical frameworks, such as Core Animation and Image Kit.

Scene Kit is intended for developers who quickly need to integrate 3D rendering into their applications. It doesn’t require that you have advanced graphical programming skills.

Nice, didn’t know about that.

 

[Lukeit]

Talking about new "features": have you noticed the Fuji wallpaper is different?
The new one has clouds at the base...

 

[innominato5090]

Talking about new "features": have you noticed the Fuji wallpaper is different?
The new one has clouds at the base...

can you upload that, please

 

[baddj]

Urgh, new iCal really is horrible.

Can you post a screenshot?

 

[KirkL]

Can you post a screenshot?

 

[hellomoto4]

Does the realistic texture show up only in full screen mode, or is it that way all the time? In a window, I think it might be distracting, but in full screen, I don't think I would mind it.

It shows up in both full screen and non-full screen. Totally agree though, it definitely looks better and less distracting in full screen.

Can you post a screenshot?

Non-full screen: http://grab.by/9LUu
Full screen: http://grab.by/9LUv

 

[Chundles]

1. iCal is pug fugly.

2. After 10.4,5,6 and now 7 the Dashboard widgets still don't stay put.

3. Still buggy. For example - I just had to restart Safari to type in this field.

It does feel very slick though, app launch times, the smoothness of the animations and scrolling all make the machine feel MUCH faster than it does in Snow Leopard.

I'm yet to try any of this with a regular mouse but damn we're going to be selling a lot of Magic Trackpads.

 

[mrblack927]

I haven't noticed too many aesthetic differences (besides iCal of course) but it does feel overall smoother than DP1 to me. You can tell Apple is working hard to get this ready for prime time.

 

[baryon]

Non-full screen: http://grab.by/9LUu
Full screen: http://grab.by/9LUv

Oh my GOD why Apple why?? This is horrid!

 

[Tyler23]

I'm pretty sure I'm the only one that really likes the look of the new ical

 

[Raska]

3. Still buggy. For example - I just had to restart Safari to type in this field.

It does feel very slick though, app launch times, the smoothness of the animations and scrolling all make the machine feel MUCH faster than it does in Snow Leopard.

I've had that problem in both developer previews as well. At first I didn't mind it, but the more it happens the more annoying it gets.

I'm pretty sure I'm the only one that really likes the look of the new ical

I actually like it too.

 

[aeaglex07]

yeah that new iCal is hideous. i know its still just a dev preview but if that is any indicator of the rest of the UI i wont be upgrading. LOL

 

[roadbloc]

iCal looks awful. I hope this is temporary or an April fools joke.

 

[mrblack927]

About iCal....

I don't know... I kinda like it. I guess I don't really care either way. I mean really, what's the big difference? Just the leather-like pattern at the top? It's the same as address book (in Lion). They're designing them to match their iPad counterparts.

 

[Lukeit]

Set desktop picture doesn't work any longer... anyone with the same issue has a way to fix it?

BTW: iCal is horrible... what on earth is going on in Apple's mind?

 

[NATO]

I won't get a chance to get this installed for a few days but one of the things I noticed about the new version of Safari was that if you dragged a picture from Safari onto your desktop or a folder that it would create a link rather than downloading the picture to that folder. Can anyone with DP2 confirm this is still the case?

 

[jeznav]

Apple has never mentioned the new "Scene Kit" before:

Introduced in Mac OS X v10.7, the Scene Kit framework enables your application to import, manipulate, and render three-dimensional assets. It supports 3D assets imported via COLLADA, an XML-based schema that facilitates the transport of 3D assets between applications. Architecturally, a scene is composed of the 3D entities of cameras, lights, and meshes. Scene Kit lets you access attributes of scene objects—for example, geometry, bounding volume, and material—and is consistent with the APIs of other graphical frameworks, such as Core Animation and Image Kit.

Scene Kit is intended for developers who quickly need to integrate 3D rendering into their applications. It doesn’t require that you have advanced graphical programming skills.

Where are you seeing this? I can't find this on the reference documents.

 

[Seryph]

Talking about new "features": have you noticed the Fuji wallpaper is different?
The new one has clouds at the base...

I'd like to see this too! The old one was pretty bland at the bottom so if this is true I'm glad they changed it.

 

[Cougarcat]

I'm pretty sure I'm the only one that really likes the look of the new ical

I like it. Much better than Address Book's UI, which I don't care for.

 

[Zoddino]

I'd like to see this too! The old one was pretty bland at the bottom so if this is true I'm glad they changed it.

it's true, it's changed!

here it is to download it!

http://cl.ly/3I371o1z0w003t371d0l

 

[Xero910]

Regarding the launchpad... I can't remove applications anymore...
When I click "option" the icons get to "shake" but there is not X sign to click to delete the app... they just wiggle and can't be deleted.
Any of you the same?

Also very difficult to move them around...

In my experience launchpad was working better on preview 1!

Ideas?

Yea it's a little buggy right now. You can delete apps the same as as before with some added frustration.

1. Press and hold, CMD+OPT+CTRL (so they all wiggle)
2. Next press and hold one app until they stop wiggling.
3. Now click the apps you want once to delete them.
4. Make sure you hold those 3 keys throughout all steps.

The only thing I haven't figured out yet is adding apps manually. When I drag them to the LaunchPad icon, nothing happens.

 

[Salacion]

Can someone post screenshots of iCal. Thanks.

 

[Weaselboy]

Can someone post screenshots of iCal. Thanks.

There is one in post #33 of this thread.