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What's left to change in Yosemite's UI
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What's left to change in Yosemite's UI
Definitely the Icons.
The idea with the 'flat look' isn't bad, but the Icons should be more elegant, filigree - currently it looks a little bit like painted by a child. Compare e.g. the analogue clock in the System Preferences or the Dashboard Icon between 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.10 Yosemite PB4 ....
Apart from that it would be nice if exiting the Dashboard would work again like Launchpad or like in Snow Leopard.
Definitely the Icons.
The idea with the 'flat look' isn't bad, but the Icons should be more elegant, filigree - currently it looks a little bit like painted by a child. Compare e.g. the analogue clock in the System Preferences or the Dashboard Icon between 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.10 Yosemite PB4 ....
Apart from that it would be nice if exiting the Dashboard would work again like Launchpad or like in Snow Leopard.
i only ask because i am completely new and an alien to mac and also i will be installing bootcamp to install windows 8.1 in order to use solidworks cad and microsft word
also is bootcamp better than parallels for installing soildworks cad and microsoft word?
also this is for when i transfer documents from windows to mac which may carry virus or anything as such
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sorry i hijacked your post but i dont know where to make a new thread cant seem to find it. please forgive me for the intrusion
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You might as well use Pages that you get free with your Mac instead of Word. You can still export as .docx and .doc. As for Anti Virus, you don't need it when running OS X, but you will need it when using Windows (unless you only use Auto Cad and do all internet activity in OS X).
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Even if it did, it won't affect OS X.
Dashboard widgets still looks like the old design, totally out of place, i use the dashboard a lot... Dont think the notification widgets replace it, still needs graphical updates
I think Apple thinks widgets do replace it. I won't be surprised if they're gone in 10.11.
Re: the two images at http://www.extensions.in.th/amitiae/2014/prefs/date.html I think the icon that's seen before the pane is open appears less 'off' than the clock within the pane.
Also, the clock within the pane in Yosemite is not as clear as it is in Mavericks.
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The video player in iTunes seems to have been completely overlooked.
I also encountered many apps where the frosted-glass effect is not consistently applied, like iTunes and the App Store (mainly in the toolbar and 'sub toolbars'). The Notes app also doesn't really fit in with it textured background and white sidebar.
I also miss the bounciness of the chat bubbles in the Messages app, like in iOS. It looks more static in Yosemite.
I also encountered many apps where the frosted-glass effect is not consistently applied, like iTunes and the App Store (mainly in the toolbar and 'sub toolbars'). The Notes app also doesn't really fit in with it textured background and white sidebar.
I also miss the bounciness of the chat bubbles in the Messages app, like in iOS. It looks more static in Yosemite.
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You will have to explain that. The numbers seem much more easy to read in the new version. The contrast between the background and the foreground is also much higher in the new version. The hour, minute and second hands are thicker and easier to read.
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It's important to keep an anti-virus app to protect documents you share with non-Mac users. I caught three spyware infections in Word documents.
I also caught something in the cache files of Safari when I visited one of those tinypic-like websites linked from a forum post. Nothing serious of course, but it's good to know that I can keep my Mac free of malicious software, even if it's harmless on the Mac. There's more rubbish code out there than people realise, even though it won't affect their Macs.
Maybe. Though these won't have any affect on OS X. Typical Windows users spreading their crap!
Sorry, a poor choice of word, I was tired at the time. I meant, the clock in Yosemite looks somewhat clumsy compared to the one in Mavericks.
and things appear to be off-centre (I haven't paid as much attention to detail as Omega Mac did).