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OS X 10.10 Yosemite: All The Little Things
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The GM is out!
Xcode 6.1 is still in Beta so looks like I will still need to hold off on submitting Swift apps to the Mac App Store.
EDIT: Xcode 6.1 GM is out, that was quick. Does this mean we're free to submit apps? They still haven't confirmed if Swift has gone GM for the Mac yet.
Xcode 6.1 is still in Beta so looks like I will still need to hold off on submitting Swift apps to the Mac App Store.
EDIT: Xcode 6.1 GM is out, that was quick. Does this mean we're free to submit apps? They still haven't confirmed if Swift has gone GM for the Mac yet.
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And they're hideous, and completely out of trend with the rest of the OS
Hideous? Holy overreaction, batman. They're just basic flat icons.
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What does it look like?
GM Candidate? Sweet gotta get updating
(Thanks Watabou for updating while I've been unavailable)
(Thanks Watabou for updating while I've been unavailable)
SMS Relay now requires a second verification. After the popup in Messages.app on OS X for relay, another pops up with a code that you have to enter on your phone.
That volume bar HUD looks ugly as sin. Apple needs to stop with the blurs, they're good for some stuff but clearly not this.
Using a blur-effect on an overlay - a notification - that displays for approx. 2.5 seconds and give you information about volume, brightness and connectivity doesn't seem like a good idea? Giving the overlay an opaque color instead goes against the design language of Yosemite and the whole focus on "being flat, but still giving you a sense of context with layering". Opaque is for a window obscuring another window, not for a temporary notification. Personally, I don't know how they could make it better, but you might have a better idea. I'd love to hear it. Now, as far as ugliness goes, I kinda agree. I think it could be smaller in size, perhaps even a spin-off of the notifications in the upper-right corner with the information shown as text ("Volume 95%"), but it would still have to be blurry/transparent.
Apparently there are some people who keep pressing the volume control buttons for the entire duration of a movie while trying to watch it at the same time. I totally understand how the overlays not being fully transparent can be an issue for them. Apple should be ashamed not taking that particular group into consideration.
In Mavericks it's not blurry or opaque, it's semi-transparent without any kind of annoying blurs. Have you ever tried watching a video on iOS 7/8 and changing volume with the buttons vs doing the same on iOS 6? On iOS 6 you can still see the video behind it. Same with Mavericks.
This is true, but I personally don't see blurred transparency as any more obtrusive than regular transparency. They both obscure the view momentarily. Yes, with regular transparency you can still make out things like text, but I would argue you still lose so much detail that it wouldn't really matter if it also happened to be blurry. The detail has already been lost. Espcially if you're like me and watch your movies from further away than when you're working. (terrible sentence.) Maybe it would be a good idea to re-think the size and/or placement of the notification, but I find it hard to imagine a redesigned overlay that wouldn't otherwise stand out too much from the overall Yosemite-look.
I don't think you're correctly remembering how it actually looked.
Lose so much detail?!
Personally, I wouldn't be comfortable having to decode a detail, something of importance or text obscured by that overlay, no. I should perhaps state it better that I'm not just talking about the visibility of the background of the HUD, I'm thinking about the icon, the label, the size of it, where it's positioned...
anybody figure out how to dl the GM from the dev site? I only get DP7 when I try :/
edit: got it through the iOS dev center
edit: got it through the iOS dev center
