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Re: OS X Yosemite

#11

Post by dfc » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:12 PM UTC

  > With this new design, OS X...now looks a bit more like iOS 7, but
  > there is still quite a bit of depth. Indeed, more than flat, the
  > design almost seems to focus more on translucency than anything else.

The above is an incomprehensible collection of words to me. I am not sure if this is because of my lack of an intimate connection to Apple products, terrible writing or some combination of the two.

Re: OS X Yosemite

#12

Post by thisisdallas » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:12 PM UTC

I honestly don't understand this design direction. I know it's nice to have a change but from the few screens I have seen on the Verge it looks like something that came from one of those "I redesigned OS X" blog posts.

Re: OS X Yosemite

#13

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:14 PM UTC

gnmj wrote: post #4

So basically it is catching up with Windows 8.

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Re: OS X Yosemite

#14

Post by buckbova » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:19 PM UTC

> Apple has done away with the faux-3D shelf look here and has put the icons on a simple translucent background instead.

I like the faux 3d dock . . . it'd be nice if this was configurable.

Re: OS X Yosemite

#15

Post by derekerdmann » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:20 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #8

rayiner wrote: post #6

HandOff is the kind of thing I'm surprised took so long. Honestly, I was expecting MS to get something like it first. After all, your Windows Phone already runs Windows, right?

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What? Then what are the new Universal apps? http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/buildingapps/archive/2014...

Re: OS X Yosemite

#16

Post by moe » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:21 PM UTC

I wish Apple would spend their resources on finally fixing some of the most broken fundamentals (photo sync, notifications, finder...), rather than letting Ive further trash the GUI and celebrating that as some sort of accomplishment...

Re: OS X Yosemite

#17

Post by Gracana » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:21 PM UTC

dfc wrote: post #11

> With this new design, OS X...now looks a bit more like iOS 7, but > there is still quite a bit of depth. Indeed, more than flat, the > design almost seems to focus more on translucency than anything else. The above is an incomprehensible collection of words to me. I am not sure if this is because of my lack of an intimate connection to Apple products, terrible writing or some combination of the two.

That does seem to be a bit of a jumble. I think what they're trying to convey is that although it uses flat design like iOS 7, on the desktop it has a feeling of depth due to the layering of translucent UI elements.

Maybe.

Re: OS X Yosemite

#18

Post by Gracana » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:22 PM UTC

buckbova wrote: post #14

> Apple has done away with the faux-3D shelf look here and has put the icons on a simple translucent background instead. I like the faux 3d dock . . . it'd be nice if this was configurable.

It might be. There are two different style options for it right now, aren't there?

[edit] That's not a rhetorical question; I'm not at home with my mac so I don't know for sure.

Re: OS X Yosemite

#19

Post by jgillich » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:22 PM UTC

cosmc wrote: post #10

I'm not a fan of the flat design personally, but the redesign is pretty sharp. I like the minimal safari UI; its nice when the browser lets the webpage be main focus and I think it is something Safari does best.

Safari looks similar to GNOME Web[1]. Not that this would be bad, I think it's a great UI.

[1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web

Re: OS X Yosemite

#20

Post by nazca » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

I don't care about flat or transparent. I just hope they effing fix windowing and multi-monitor support. ⌘+` is ridiculously buggy.