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OS X 10.10 Yosemite: All The Little Things

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ncrypt said:
I don't think Finder or messages has it. I'm sure there are others too.
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To clearify all this: When you select a sidebar item it turns blue. If you click somewhere else in the app the sidebar item goes to inactive state and is translucent. If the window is inactive all blur effects are disabled an it gets gray.

Screenshot 1-3 show this with the Reminders app. The Mail app has a bug since Lion that it always displays its sidebar items in inactive mode. The selected sidebar item is always translucent there.
 

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ps3zocker said:
To clearify all this: When you select a sidebar item it turns blue. If you click somewhere else in the app the sidebar item goes to inactive state and is translucent. If the window is inactive all blur effects are disabled an it gets gray.

Screenshot 1-3 show this with the Reminders app. The Mail app has a bug since Lion that it always displays its sidebar items in inactive mode. The selected sidebar item is always translucent there.
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You are right, I want point out that the transparent inactive selection state is present just in few apps: Mail, Contacts and Reminders.

Every other application in the OS with sidebar keeps the blue active selection all the time, here is the inconsistency.

I think every eye-featured man in the world now wants the transparent inactive selection state to be system-wide.
 
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Just wanted to post to say the new HTML5 support in Safari is NOTHING SHORT OF BRILLIANT!!!

Being able to get rid of Silverlight that was randomly, but consistently causing my Mac to reboot, every time I watch Netflix, was driving me insane, but 10.10 DP5 was an improvement, and DP6 is just perfection.

Anyone running Silverlight in DP6 should be ashamed of themselves!!
 
Takuro said:
They're fugly. I wanted to see new drive icons for a while, especially since magnetic disks are largely being phased out in Apple's product line in favor of SSDs. Instead of taking the opportunity to recreate them from the ground up, these are weird, washed-out, blue-tinged versions of the old set. Pretty disappointing.

I don't mind the shift to simpler icons, but it looks like they're dropping the ball when it comes to trying to incorporate a slightly flatter design while trying to retain some of the original design. They should be a little more ambitious, IMO.
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I agree with this. The darker grey color is really ugly to me. Should have kept the silver from before.
 
nextstop said:
You are right, I want point out that the transparent inactive selection state is present just in few apps: Mail, Contacts and Reminders.

Every other application in the OS with sidebar keeps the blue active selection all the time, here is the inconsistency.

I think every eye-featured man in the world now wants the transparent inactive selection state to be system-wide.
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I don't think making it all consistent would be appropriate. Some apps have two sidebars. With them, the left-most sidebar is for folders or categories (Inbox, Junk, etc.). These general category sidebars are not as important, and they can also be hidden. The sidebar with color selections identify the actual content (message threads, notes, etc.). These need to be more distinct because they are more important, and they can't be hidden.

Complete visual consistency can't be achieved unless it was to disrupt functional consistency.

The system applies the translucency to the left-most sidebar, whichever that may be. In some apps, it's the only sidebar, so it's always visible, in other apps, that sidebar can be hidden. An app like Messages has only one sidebar, so it's translucent, and that sidebar identifies content (message threads), so it uses color.
 
Mail.app sending sound?

Has anyone noticed the mail sending sound has changed in Yosemite? Not sure whether it is since DP5 or before, but it is deeper, and sounds more like a sneeze, and not in a good way.
 
yeldarbnamdlog said:
Anyone running Silverlight in DP6 should be ashamed of themselves!!
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I still use silverlight ONLY because I like the ability to move forward past titles in shows with the keyboard, especially the long ones in animes. Last time I used HTML5 in netflix, it wouldn't work and OSX was just beeping at me. Maybe it has changed by now, but silverlight is just fine for me, so I really don't care.
 
Screenshots of the new iTunes in PB2? This is all I could conjure up from a search...

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The new iTunes 12 also has a dedicated row on top of all your music (at least in albums view) for what you've Recently Added.

The Tones bell now has cel shading too.

Everything still looks quite crowded at the top, especially when not run in Fullscreen mode. :/

Also, if you stay in Playlists view, you can use the view drop down menu button on the upper right to set your view style––and the sidebar is effectively back! Yay!
 

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They need badges on the top toolbar where you select music, videos, books, etc so you know when there's new content available. It looks like they're making it easier to navigate through though, which is good.
 
timshundo said:
Here's a before/after gif of the changes I made
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They freed up a lot of screen real-estate. I'm happy to see that the UI is still being tweaked. Whatever the final result is, it needs to be ready for September when iPhone 6 launches... getting close to the wire.


timshundo said:
Also: Folders look so much better.
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I don't see a difference. Aren't these exactly the same folders that shipped with the first preview?
 
Takuro said:
They freed up a lot of screen real-estate. I'm happy to see that the UI is still being tweaked. Whatever the final result is, it needs to be ready for September when iPhone 6 launches... getting close to the wire.




I don't see a difference. Aren't these exactly the same folders that shipped with the first preview?
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A small difference but yes, the folders do look better.

PB1 vs. PB 2
 

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iMessages Screen Sharing On DP6

Hi,
Did anyone get iMessage Screen sharing on Yosemite DP6 to work? Both me and my friend have DP6 installed and nothing is connecting, it is just stuck at waiting. I would like someone to help me on this matter!
 
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