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Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by scrumper »

kylec wrote: post #76
scrumper wrote: post #46

Not a great article: new features trumpeted include Spotlight's ability to search for mail messages and contacts, and a Private Browsing mode for Spotlight - both of which are pretty long-standing features. These things tend to get rushed out, but maybe TC could have waited just a few more minutes to weed out the obvious stinkers.

Was this originally a TC link? Because it now points to the Apple.com page for OS X Yosemite, and some of the comments elsewhere in this thread no longer make sense. I didn't know it was possible for mods to change the link associated with a story, and now that I know I wish they wouldn't do it.

It was a pretty crappy TechCrunch story, yes. My comment is therefore invalid now, so it might be a good idea for a mod to kill it.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by hadrien01 »

quackerhacker wrote: post #102

The upgrades to Safari look amazing! [0] Less chrome, Javascript benchmarks (impressive), and the spotlight search in the url...nice! I hope Apple changes the zoom button to maximize the screen. [0] https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/apps/

Looks like Epiphany, the Gnome browser... [0]

Actually, a lot of OS X Yosemite borrows from Gnome's Gtk+, like headerbars [1]

[0] http://i.imgur.com/xBof95c.png [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.10/GtkHeaderBar.html

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by hadrien01 »

currysausage wrote: post #30

Am I the only one here who hates to see Lucida Grande be replaced with Neue Helvetica Aslightaspossible? Eager to see how it looks on non-retina displays.

It looks awful :( Just when Twitter has finally ditched that font.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by aeontech »

digitailor wrote: post #114
archagon wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes, I agree. I'm a professional visual designer, FWIW. After 22 years on Macintosh, I've completely transitioned to Crunchbang on a MacBook Pro and a Windows 7/Crunchbang dual-boot workstation. I really like the translucency and general look of Win7. I had started to feel like OS X was visually dated, but more importantly, harming my workflow. For development and design, I am working nearly twice as fast in the OS u…

I'm really curious what you use for your design process. Are GIMP and Inkscape solid enough now that you can spend all day in them without tearing your hair out?

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by niels_olson »

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!

http://www.openbsd.org/

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by bitL »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #133
bitL wrote: post #128

The race of the uglies - OS X Yosemite vs Windows 8.1 - is on! :-D

The flatter design looks more like older versions of OS X. http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/10.3.9-P...

Sorry, this was just a jab at the flat-design trend nowadays ;-)

I use OS X only since 10.7 so I didn't have any exposure to its previous versions.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by bronson »

meepmorp wrote: post #122
bronson wrote: post #91

Ye gods, is this the end of Chicago?

Chicago hasn't been the system font for roughly 14 years.

Ha, you're right. I guess something about how Lucida Grande is rendered, plus all the formative years spent on a Mac Plus, made it so I've been seeing Chicago this whole time.

I'm feeling rather shaken right now.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by eunoia »

Rudy78 wrote: post #106
syncsynchalt wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. On iOS you can't/don't overlap windows, so its design language never had to describe this relationship. One of the questions floating around for the past few months was whether the next OSX would go in a flatter direction, and if so how they would cue window overlaps. It looks like the answers are (a) yes and (b) using roughly the same shadowing as before, plus translucence.

windows/views do overlap on iOS. Apple specifically mentioned translucency when demoing Control Center in iOS6 at WWDC last year. They are using the same playbook for OSX

Overlapping UIViews with interactive transitions between view controllers have rapidly become the hallmark of a good iOS UI experience. I personally haven't ever seen overlapping UIWindows though...

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by unicornporn »

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 guess you can, until you run into a piece of software that wont run on SL. SL is my favorite OS X version by far too. But Lightroom 5 requires 10.7, so that's where I'm at now...
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