Yep. They should remove it. Then, it's also consistent with iOS. As a very last option they could re-add the spinning wheel, but the loading bar ist horrendous.
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OS X 10.10 Yosemite: All The Little Things
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Yep. They should remove it. Then, it's also consistent with iOS. As a very last option they could re-add the spinning wheel, but the loading bar ist horrendous.
I wouldn't say almost everything. Many of the small changes in Yosemite do truly represent an upgrade from Mavericks.
;-)
It wasn't entirely removed; it was instead bundled into Accessibility's reduce transparency option.
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I wouldn't say almost everything. Many of the small changes in Yosemite do truly represent an upgrade from Mavericks.
;-)
I didn't say that. I mean usually the stuff looks better the first go rather when they go back and refine it.
Other than stuff like the volume indicator though... it was obvious it wasn't finished from the getgo.
I must say though.. if there's one thing i absolutely prefer about mavericks, it's how much more transparent the menu bar was. it just looked much better how it would react with contrasting colors.
I understand … the wink was intended to show that it was a light-hearted interpretation.
Years ago, I enjoyed an early feature that disappeared long before release. A feature that might have appealed to power users. That was a one-off, I couldn't guess the reason for its disappearance.
From my relatively limited point of view (spending far less time testing than in the past), the little things in Yosemite have become progressively better. YMMV.
So, what you are saying is that I can’t do this? Obviously, it works for me.
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Right, but I don't want the options to be bundled. I much prefer an opaque menubar, but I like translucency elsewhere in the OS. In DP5 and beneath, I was able to enjoy an opaque menubar, while seeing translucency in the rest of the OS. Removal of this option reminds me of a more locked-down iOS feel.
To add insult to injury, when updating to DP6 from DP5, the opaque menubar went away in favor of the translucent menubar. I hope this is a temporary oversight/experiment on Apple's end, and that it'll be fixed. I definitely will be submitting feedback about this.
Pinch to zoom
Anybody else having problems with Pinch to Zoom not working? It was working fine before and I'm on the public beta which hasn't updated.
Anybody else having problems with Pinch to Zoom not working? It was working fine before and I'm on the public beta which hasn't updated.
There is a new transparent selection strip in sidebar but it is just in Mail, Contacts and Reminders.
It needs to be system-wide, looks very nice
Whoa, that does look good! That HAS TO BE system wide at some point, otherwise there will be even MORE inconsistency.
There is a new Finder icon in the "About Finder" menu! This is the same Finder icon shown on Apple's US website. In addition, the Terminal icon now has a MacBook Pro screen like bezel and backlight and the Voiceover Utility icon has a blue-grey tint. Some alert noises have also been adjusted, including 'Funk' and 'Submarine'. There is probably more in this beta I haven't noticed, but I haven't seen anyone else noticing any of these changes yet
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Two questions
1) Does Speakable Items look and work the same? In Mavericks it still seems identical in appearance to the first version of OS X and isn't as accurate as OS X's Dictation feature. Doesn't seem to have added any features since OS 9 either.
2) Is networking between local Macs better? I have always a lot of trouble with file sharing on Macs--just very unreliable. Does it seem better?
1) Does Speakable Items look and work the same? In Mavericks it still seems identical in appearance to the first version of OS X and isn't as accurate as OS X's Dictation feature. Doesn't seem to have added any features since OS 9 either.
2) Is networking between local Macs better? I have always a lot of trouble with file sharing on Macs--just very unreliable. Does it seem better?
There is a new transparent selection strip in sidebar but it is just in Mail, Contacts and Reminders.
It needs to be system-wide, looks very nice
That is stunning, could you post mail?
There is a new transparent selection strip in sidebar but it is just in Mail, Contacts and Reminders.
It needs to be system-wide, looks very nice
When you select it, it's blue. When you click somewhere else it would be inactive and normally be gray but now it's translucent. So it's basically the inactive state for the selection.
In the column view of Finder windows, in the preview panel on the right.
However in Yosemite Finder there is a command in the View menu to show the preview panel whatever is the current view of the icons not just for the column view.
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Yes, I see.. then it is actually the inactive state for the selection that has to be a system-wide behavior.
In the sidebar of Finder and every other application there is not a inactive state for selection when you select some item in the main panel (/view).
It looks inconsistent.
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I noted that Mail has always the transparent selection in sidebar, even if there's not selection in the other panels. So it is definitely inconsistent.
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