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Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by JohnBooty »

dirkgently wrote: post #24
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.

When design of an _Operation System_ boils down to just how "truculent" and "flat" (but with "a bit of depth") it is, you know we are talking less about the Operating System and more about the GUI/Window Manager.

I, for one, would not like to use a truculent operating system!

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by frik »

jordigh wrote: post #45

So... Oh Ess Ten Ten Point Ten? Is that how it's pronounced? I suppose it's better than OS X X.X.

OS X (previously Mac OS X) is the successor of Mac OS 9. X stands for 10 in roman numerals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals

For marketing reasons (as some don't know about roman numerals), Apple writes it like this OS X 10.9 or now OS X 10.10 or OS X Yosemite (instead of Mac OS X.10 or Mac OS 10.10).

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by virtualwhys »

nazca wrote: post #20

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

I left OSX for Linux 5 years ago primarily due to the unbelievably lacking window management. Having come from Windoze land with the then, and perhaps still, excellent UltraMon, I could never adapt to manually reizing app windows side by side into grids, or context switching between layers expose-style.

The tiling window manager options on Linux are so good that I've dropped the desktop environment entirely (Gnome, KDE, etc.) and am just rolling with a TM, lightweight theme and icon package for a quite nice gtk3 look.

OSX wins in out of the box "just works" and bling departments, no argument there, but otherwise it holds no appeal, this bird has flown...

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by dev1n »

If possible, could someone from the Apple community please tell me if Yosemite will be faster / lighter than snow leopard? I don't want an OS that requires 8 gigs of ram to run "fast" like Mavericks requires.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by arrrg »

jordigh wrote: post #45

So... Oh Ess Ten Ten Point Ten? Is that how it's pronounced? I suppose it's better than OS X X.X.

Ten ten. Alternatively Yosemite. Or OS ten Yosemite.

No one will use ten ten ten.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by dethstar »

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?

There's something kinda similar for KDE, KDE Connect, it sends notifications to your PC from your phone, but you can not reply.

http://community.kde.org/KDEConnect

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by Watabou »

bliggity wrote: post #55
e40 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They already dropped the first ten. It's OS 10.10.

Apple is definitely printing "OS X 10.10": http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2014/05/osxyosemitefall...

That is not an official Apple image.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by jonhohle »

archagon wrote: post #43
devindotcom wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First thing I thought of. "Look at how the background beautifully interacts with the translucent menu bar." Didn't we all turn that feature off back in 2007?! Though in fairness that was partly because it was such a hog on Vista. I've left translucency on in Win 7, though it sure isn't a productivity boost and it ain't 'beautiful' either.

Apple people like to mock Aero's translucency, but I... always liked it. Anyone else? Anyone?

The first release of OS X had translucent title bars for inactive windows[0] as well as a lot of transparency in sheets, menus and other UI elements. A lot off this was to show off the compositing available in the window manager.

I was disappointed when more and more became opaque over time and am glad to see the return of translucency.

0 - http://media.soundonsound.com/sos/dec00/images/appleosx.l.gi...

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

lvillani wrote: post #52
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like Pushbullet built into both OSes with the polish that entails. Absolutely genius. I hope Google builds Pushbullet or something very similar into Chrome and Android, that integration is awesome.

AFAIK, PushBullet doesn't allow you to answer phone calls. The closest analogue it comes to my mind is an early demo of Ubuntu for Android in which they showed the ability to reply to SMS messages from within the Unity desktop (although I'm certain I saw a phone call demo too, just can't find a link to the video). However, in that case, both the Ubuntu desktop and Android were running on the same device, so it was ea…

Nope it doesn't - that's an example of where this is much smoother. FWIW MightyText already does SMS (via an app, not proximity) on Android/Chrome - although it's not Apple smooth in terms of replying either.

I think the right way to go would be syncing the actions as well as data of Android's rich notifications - things like reply to email/archive from chrome notifications, reply to SMS, hangouts.. It'd be Google's universal apps between Android and Chrome - syncing actions. It'd need a lot of developer support but it'd be fantastic if they pulled it off as well as Apple and supported third parties in a serious way.

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