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Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by virtualwhys »

mercnet wrote: post #88
virtualwhys wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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, K…

What tiling manage, theme and icon package do you use to get a GTK3 look? I currently use Awesome WM and Gnome 2.X.

I started out with Awesome as well but switched to i3, get a huge amount of functionality out of a very straightforward config (read: low PITA/high reward factor).

Anyway, for a very nice gtk3 look you can try StudioFlat off of the Gnome Look site, and gnome-icons-brave via whatever your package manager happens to be.

The tiny xcalib package (100kb) is also worth grabbing, hook up to xbindkeys and you get screen color inversion _per monitor_, very bad ass, your eyes will love it.

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Post by leejoramo »

sdfjkl wrote: post #101
davis_m wrote: post #70

Spotlight seems an awful lot like Alfred now. http://www.alfredapp.com/

Alfred does a lot more than that. But yes, the inspiration is obvious (and Alfred itself was inspired by Quicksilver).

Which was inspired by LaunchBar. The cmd-space keyboard shortcut originated with LaunchBar back in the NeXT days. Spotlight has had added features repeatedly over the years, and people have said that LaunchBar/QuickSliver/Alfred are about to be "Sherlocked".

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by bluthru »

morbius wrote: post #25

Widgets, translucency, and animations... So... OS X 10.10 is... Windows Vista with Aero Glass? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Windows_Vista....

I think this is a great example of control and execution. Aero's excessive borders and ornamentation drove me nuts. Yosemite is very subtle in its approach.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by jitl »

rsync wrote: post #105
dev1n wrote: post #64

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.

You need to come to grips with the fact that SL was the high-water mark for OS coherency/consistency/quality from Apple. You can't pour all of this time and energy into iOS and phones and still make something as clean as SL. Which is too bad. FWIW, I continue to run SL on an early 2009 Mac Pro with no problems or annoyances ... hope that can continue.

I left the Apple ecosystem when I couldn't move up from my 2006 Macbook Pro and stay with Snow Leopard. Mission Control was such a huge step back for window management in my opinion. I much preferred Expose'ing all my windows across all my spaces, or being able to quickly read content from a covered window while writing an email.

The improvements shown today (especially the phone integration and Swift) are making me think about returning.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by Angostura »

JohnBooty wrote: post #61
dirkgently wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

A grumpy, stubborn version of Clippy, perhaps.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by eurleif »

aroman wrote: post #113
eurleif wrote: post #80

Which parts of the front window in this screenshot[0] are draggable? Maybe this is just me, but I don't like how the titlebar and window contents are visually merged. [0] https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/images/overview_design_her...

All of them — everywhere that isn't another control. Apple stole this design wholesale from GTK[1], but I think it's a superior paradigm anyway, so I don't really mind. [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.10/GtkHeaderBar.html

>everywhere that isn't another control

Is the list of messages on the left another control? It's clickable, but the whole thing is visually merged with the titlebar.

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