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> Also folders can be browsed as a series of menus when placed in the dock. http://toastytech.com/guis/osxhddoc.jpg That is more useful than the icon view it has now.
You can still get it like that, just right click on any folder that is pinned to the right side of the Dock, you’ll get 4 different display options.
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You can still get it like that, just right click on any folder that is pinned to the right side of the Dock, you’ll get 4 different display options.
Thank you!!
Having never actually interacted with a mac from that era, are the grey and white stripes in the toolbar screenshots actually visible on the screen or are they an artifact of old screenshots on modern displays?
They really didn't look bad, though. I think if you zoom the image larger it will give you a better impression of what they actually felt like.
They glossed over the NeXT roots which is telling, the ideas were only half-heartedly baked into the OS. It should be strictly enforced that everything on-screen has a relationship to everything else. But that would have been hard work, and they realized eye candy was an easier route when you can just announce something else every few years. This is why desktop evironments really haven't changed since the first comme…
Wow, unbelievable that it was designed in 2001! It still looks fresh and modern, although maybe a bit too playful so that it appears a bit childish? But only barely. It appears to have all the basic functionality expected from a modern operating system, I instantly feel right at home although I've never used it. I find the review terrible though, one of the major changes was the user interface, revolutionary I would…
Wow, unbelievable that it was designed in 2001! It still looks fresh and modern, although maybe a bit too playful so that it appears a bit childish? But only barely. It appears to have all the basic functionality expected from a modern operating system, I instantly feel right at home although I've never used it. I find the review terrible though, one of the major changes was the user interface, revolutionary I would…
Although, OS X was painful for many years.
Having never actually interacted with a mac from that era, are the grey and white stripes in the toolbar screenshots actually visible on the screen or are they an artifact of old screenshots on modern displays?
They are visible. It was a design element throughout the UI at the time.
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Feels playful because everything else from that era was ugly in my opinion
I wouldn't call XP (Luna) theme ugly. It wasn't as clean as Windows2k but it was just fine.
Windows 2000 was the last system in the world with coherent and beautiful UI.
Those times are over. We can't have good things.
They glossed over the NeXT roots which is telling, the ideas were only half-heartedly baked into the OS. It should be strictly enforced that everything on-screen has a relationship to everything else. But that would have been hard work, and they realized eye candy was an easier route when you can just announce something else every few years. This is why desktop evironments really haven't changed since the first comme…
What does it mean for everything on screen to have a relationship to everything else? Could you elaborate?
Meanwhile, the Mac OS X Finder is not spatial. You can have the same folder open in multiple windows, each with different layouts. There's no longer that illusion that the window and the folder are one and the same – it's just a browser showing you the contents of the folder.
This article goes into a lot more detail. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/