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OS X 10.10 Yosemite: All The Little Things
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You mean the same effect as manually clicking "sleep" and then waking up the device?
I'am not so sure if that fade wasn't there before.
I wish they enable an option to toggle the behaviour of the green button. Not sure if everyone else agrees but I use fullscreen apps rarely and when I use, I tend to leave the app in fullscreen for a long time...
Click = Fullscreen
Alt+click = Maximise
to
Click = Maximise
Alt+click = Fullscreen
Click = Fullscreen
Alt+click = Maximise
to
Click = Maximise
Alt+click = Fullscreen
It wasn't. It was instant.
There's some earlier mock ups that can illustrate how that would look; I've linked them at the bottom of my post.
Although I think it's pretty, you have to remember that having icons with no borders does not show any visualization of how much of the icon that is clickable. Like, if Apple used a simple "<" for going back on a page, it would be confusing to know where to put your mouse pointer. A finger which you use on a touch device already takes up the entire space which makes it better to not create boxes which the icons are in because it might feel weird if you fingers are bigger than the boxes. The control button for iTunes doesn't have boxes, but they are however very big which still makes a big hitboc for your mouse to click.
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Hey guys
I was just wondering, why not clarify in one single post what's working and what is not (at this time or at least for me)
Many people claimed neither handoff nor sms/calls were working in this build.
Not for me. I installed Yosemite and iOS 8 simultaneously and this is what's working:
What I didn't get to work out for now:
Since this is about small things and not primarily about iOS, I won't bother you with other working iOS features. I just gonna say that the most part of all announced features work pretty well (location based app suggestions on lock screen, siri shazam, hey siri, widgets, time lapse video, edit photos, iCloud, iMessage features...)
I guess from now on, OS X and iOS are more connected to each other than ever before.
I was just wondering, why not clarify in one single post what's working and what is not (at this time or at least for me)
Many people claimed neither handoff nor sms/calls were working in this build.
Not for me. I installed Yosemite and iOS 8 simultaneously and this is what's working:
- set up tethering from your Mac without touching your phone
- handoff: safari, mail, maps (both ways)
- iCloud drive: You can drop stuff there on Mac, but you won't see it anywhere in iOS unless you get updated iWork apps for iOS, which are out apparently but I could not find them on developer.apple.com
- accept and place calls/sms from your mac.
- AirDrop between iOS and 10.10
What I didn't get to work out for now:
- real time spotlight web suggestions such as wikipedia (outside US...)
- same for safari search. no wikipedia suggestion
- markup? where do I find it?
- handoff: iWork (guess you'll need updated versions)
Since this is about small things and not primarily about iOS, I won't bother you with other working iOS features. I just gonna say that the most part of all announced features work pretty well (location based app suggestions on lock screen, siri shazam, hey siri, widgets, time lapse video, edit photos, iCloud, iMessage features...)
I guess from now on, OS X and iOS are more connected to each other than ever before.
This thread is for small features and changes in OS X Yosemite, there's separate threads for bugs and stuff that doesn't work.
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I agree with your reasoning, I just think it looks much better without the boxes round it, would be nice to have an option like iOS.
How have you got it to even show up?
Not photoshopped, running Yosemite on an external HDD, opened the Mavericks version of PhotoBooth from the internal HDD while in Yosemite and it works. Other stock Apple apps don't work when opened from the Mavericks HD, but PhotoBooth does so it surely isn't going away.
Perhaps it could work if the icon would glow when you hover it with the mouse? :I
EDIT: Sky Blue, how do I change an icon in OS X? I've downloaded your iTunes icon replacement but it doesn't work when I try to replace the icon through CTRL + V. How did you do it?
How have you got it to even show up?
Navigate to the app in another partition (Containing an older version of OS X) and run it from there. It looks like the image posted: unchanged but with a new title bar.
I have never used System Preferences to turn off Wi-Fi.
Control Center on OS X would be a duplication/movement of existing functionality not appropriate on a Mac.
Look critically at existing iOS Control Center functionality and you'll see how inappropriate it is on OS X:
- Airplane Mode – no Macs have GPS or Cellular, only Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi – Already two clicks to disable/switch network. Control centre would take two clicks (or a gesture and click) yet offer reduced funtionailty unless the interface was remarkably cluttered
- Bluetooth – as above, it's already two clicks
- DnD – Potentially a candidate for a Mac Control Center but equally works in Notifcation Center
- Portrait Orientation Lock – Not appropriate
- Screen brightness – Adjusted in one action via the keyboard. Control Center would be an increase
- Volume – Same story, but a slider is in the menu bar item, as are output an input sources
- Media control – Also on the keyboard or through right-clicking a dock item if you don't want to leave where you are. If you do it's one click on the App's dock icon to get full access to an app then one to get back; Control Center would limit functionality
- Flashlight – Macs don't have one nor is it likely they'll gain them
- Timer – Okay, that might be useful
- Calculator – Already an app, dashboard widget – (i.e. it's already a click/gesture away on the other side of the display) and Spotlight feature
- Camera – People use all sorts of different Photo apps and tend to add them to their dock, so
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Who does use System Preferences to turn wifi on/off? That's just crazy.
I agree that CC wouldn't work on OS X. To me there is just no need for it, as it would duplicate a lot of the controls in the menu bar.
Are you talking about the menu that comes from the side?
if so, that was in 10.9...
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I think the new finder icon has grown on me... it doesn't look as jarring anymore.
No, I'am not talking about sidebar.
I'am talking about bookmark icons which appear when you click on address bar.
Oh, I see. Still I wouldn't put much stock into that being for a touch interface. The new tab screen seems to have bigger more 'touchable' website buttons.
I think that was just added so you don't need to be on the new tab screen to have an easy to see grid of favorite websites to access.
Connecting to a server: When you enter just an ip/hostname, it automatically choses smb instead of afp.
Finally. Thought they were supposed to change that in Mavericks. I think Yosemite uses SMB3.
I think Mavericks used it too.
I think it should also do this automatically. I would prefer AFP when connecting to my server that uses AFP, so it should check what kind its connecting to. Or at least have an option in finder to try AFP first then SMB if it fails.