Preview of Mac OS X 10.2

andrew writes "Some developers have written to the USA Register to share some of the changes and new features in the Mac OS X 10.2 beta released at WWDC (codenamed Jaguar). The story outlines some performance enhancements as well as changes to both Finder and Dock; there are a few screenshots as well." Update: 05/13 22:22 GMT by P : More screen shots! Zo0ok writes "Think Secret has a bunch of screenshots and a description of new features in Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)."

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os X has stagnated already!

[tps12]

Man, this is bleak. OS X 10.0 was the first revolutionary change in the Mac OS since the transition from a flat filesystem to a hierarchical one (system 2? I'm not sure). 10.1 was a bug fix. Now with 10.2 it's back to minor interface tweaks. It is sad that OS X appears to have stopped developping. At least it gives Lin*x desktops another GUI to emulate...since M$ stopped innovating in '95, and GTKDE have pretty much got the Windows clone down to a science, it will give the OSS guys something to do. I guess I was just hoping that we would finally get out of the rut we've been in for a decade or so.

:(

Code name, Jaguar (code name, asshole)

[Laplace]

Check out the story further down on the apple.slashdot.org main page, in particular this link . Are the Apple people assholes or what?

I wish I could mod this down

[kwerle]

As troll, ignorant, redundant.

Does It Allow For Remapping of CapsLock Key?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am in Apple's target market. I am a long-time Unix user. I appreciate quality! I lust after their laptops. But I just can't buy one, yet.

This is because I can't use their laptops' keyboards. I need the key to the left of the 'A' to be a Ctrl key. This is not just a want; it is a genuine need based upon ergonomic reasons.

Apple's cost to satisfy my keyboard desires is small: re-design their laptops to use USB keyboards just like the rest of their line. Unfortunately for all unix users, Apple hasn't done this yet. Their laptops still use the ADB keyboards, which are horribly broken-by-design. ADB keyboards are a vestage of the old insanely-bad input devices days, when Apple didn't have an industrial-strength unix core. Apple has been ignoring unix users' requests for a usable keyboard for a very long time, so I don't expect them to change their ways, even though they now have a unix OS.

Apple: Please fix your laptop keyboards! Please re-design your laptop motherboards to use a modern up-to-date USB keyboard, to go along with your robust and mature modern up-to-date unix OS!!

Note: is is now possible to use the keyboard with Debian GNU/Linux, but as of yet, Apple has not made it possible for unix old-timers to use with OSX.

My standard rant follows:

Apple Laptop Keyboards are Unacceptable to Unix Users

Apple designs horrible keyboards. ADB keyboards (which are still used on all of Apple's laptops) are unusable to unix users who need a Ctrl key to the left of the 'A'.

Proper Keyboard Design

• When a key is pressed, the keyboard sends a keyPress event.
• When a key is released, the keyboard sends a keyRelease event.
• Each key is assigned a different keycode.

Nothing more, nothing less.

ADB Keyboard Mis-design

• When the key to the left of the 'A' (CapsLock) is pressed, the ADB keyboard sends both a keyPress event and a keyRelease event.
• When the CapsLock key is then released, the ADB keyboard sends NO events.
• When the CapsLock key is next pressed, the ADB keyboard sends NO events.
• When the CapsLock key is then released, the ADB keyboard sends both a keyPress event and a keyRelease event.
• The above cycle repeats over and over.

This is WRONG ! Apple's ADB keyboards are broken by design.

Unix Users Cannot Use Apple's ADB Keyboards

What this means is that unix users who need the key to the left of the 'A' to be a Ctrl key cannot use Apple ADB keyboards. You can easily reprogram the CapsLock key to be a Ctrl key and get rid of the badness of the CapsLock key, but you can't get the required goodness of the Ctrl key to the left of the 'A'.

Apple Loses Sales to Unix Users

All Apple laptops have the horrible broken-by-design ADB keyboards which are unusable to unix users. I want to buy an Apple laptop, but I cannot and will not until Apple builds input devices usable by unix users.