OS X Yosemite • Hacker News Board

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....

If I haven't experienced the translucent effect on iOS 7 I would be as skeptical as you are. But despite all the amateurish things Apple did with iOS (Oh the icons),the translucency is actually very tasteful and providing a satisfactory sense of depth.

The translucency on Vista is just over the top besides a heavy system resource toll.

I'll have to wait to see how the see-through side panel works in reality to give thumbs up to Yosemite though.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by sanderjd » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 8:15 PM UTC

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.

I always say Oh Ess Ex, but maybe I'm weird.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by klrr » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 8:16 PM UTC

Those bars looks surprisingly close to GNOMEs' ones.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by kylec » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 8:20 PM UTC

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.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by mwarkentin » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 8:22 PM UTC

bane wrote: post #58

I'm really looking forward to this. Unlike iOS7, the flatter design here doesn't make me feel like a bunch of amateur artists got a hold of a free copy of Adobe Illustrator. I actually like the new look quite a bit. Now, to pray that they've made some under the hood progress on multi-monitor support. Moving work back and forth from desktop to mobile also sounds really amazing. I get a hint of it when working with gma…

There were multi-monitor updates in Mavericks - fixed most of my issues. What's still an issue for you?

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by CatMtKing » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 8:22 PM UTC

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.

OSXXX

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by vemy » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 8:27 PM UTC

moeedm wrote: post #60

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....

The only difference is that Apple has done it in a tasteful and understood way. Aero looks gaudy af.

A lot of people would probably have a different view on this.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by eurleif » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 8:29 PM UTC

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...