 | | | Subject: Re: Apple 's Change of Heart? | Subject: Re: Apple 's Change of Heart? 2007-11-01 - By Adam Salter
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This is so off topic it's not funny, but...
The new stacks icons look great, but usability wise are they really
that great?
Drop the Applications folder onto the dock and you get _basically_ the
Address Book icon. It's crazy you can't even see your own custom icon...
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/13
The fanning/grid could be ok (I don't like fan personally because it's
not straight, but each to their own)...
Many changes seem to be gratuitous animation, e.g. the new help menu
item search which hovers, but with a pause and it annoys the hell out
of me...
Anyway the new under-the-hood changes all seem to be very focused on
making things better, so hey... :)
RubyCocoaBridge, Obj-C garbage collection, Rails default install,
DTrace, Core Animation... Awesome technologies and very well
integrated...
Now to work out how I'm going to use these technologies to make my
killer app ;)
On 31/10/2007, at 11:20 AM, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> What about Quicksilver? Once I started using that, I just about
> cleared my dock of everything I didn't need to launch with one-click.
>
> I never bother traversing folders anymore (well, except the first
> time to train Quicksilver). Now it's just control-space "Shar"
> enter and away I go....
>
> -Brent
>
> -- -- Original Message ----
> From: John Stiles <jstiles@(protected)>
> To: Ian Ollmann <iano@(protected)>
> Cc: Mac Games Development List <mac-games-dev@(protected)>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:12:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Apple's Change of Heart?
>
>
> I think the biggest loss in this department is nested folders. e.g.
> you
>
> can no longer put the Developer folder in your dock and access
> Developer
>> Applications > Performance Tools > Shark with a right-click in the
> dock. This is a major issue for my usage patterns. The old dock was
> amenable to emulating the Start menu because it supported a
> hierarchical
> structure, but the new dock no longer supports going into nested
> folders.
>
>
> Ian Ollmann wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Henry Maddocks wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 31/10/2007, at 5:13 AM, zmorris@(protected) wrote:
>>>
>>>> They need to release 10.5.1 that ... lets the user choose whether
> to
>>>> have stacks in the dock
>>>
>>> My god, something we agree on :)
>>
>> So, I don't know if you noticed, but you can select whether it fans
> or
>> grids by control clicking the dock icon.
>> Sadly, it only works if the dock is on the bottom of the screen.
> (Sigh.)
>>
>> ...or is the complaint here is that you want a vanilla finder window
>> in response to clicking on a folder in the dock, rather than the
>> fan/grid? I tried defeating it using an alias, but no dice. I guess
>> the metaphor for this is to use the Places bar at left in Finder
>> windows for that...
>>
>> Ian
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