Screenshots of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Leaked

gorman writes "Screenshots of Apple's next major update to OS X, Panther (10.3), have finally been leaked to the web. For months very little has been known about Panther, with only several minor rumors here and there. These screenshots show off many new features, including the return of labels, a brand new Safari-like finder, and an interesting window management system called Exposé. In addition, the screenshots show off refined visuals and improvements to all of the included Apple applications, such as video support in iChat and enhanced spam filtering in Mail. While these screenshots show off a pre-release version of Panther, it's definitely interesting to see what Apple is working on! Steve Jobs will demonstrate Panther during his keynote this Monday at WWDC and will make it available to developers."

Comments

Re:OMG OMG OMG OMG

[AKnightCowboy]

Especially not these screenshots. I can't even tell any difference between OS 10.3 and 10.2. Woop, more brushed metal themes, it's like 1997 all over again. Hopefully they did something between these releases to justify the inevitable $130 upgrade fee.

Apple upgrades more often than windows?

[E1v!$]

Seems win 98 was out before 95 left beta... then ME 2 years later.. everyone was bitching about how quickly the operating systems were changing.

Apples doing the same thing and all we get is "OMG OMG OMG".....

C'mon. This is sheit. Upgrades this often shouldn't be charged for unless they come with something cool (like a better, bouncier girlfriend.)

Finally the one mouse button problem is solved.

[Krapangor]

Everbody who has used a Mac once knows how it annoying it is to have only one mouse button.
Sometimes I wonder why Jobs had such a bad idea, where they assuming that Apple users can't distinguish right from left ?
However, they has fixed it in the new OS version.
And it's a good fix, too.
Instead of forcing users to buy new expensive two-button mice, they just created the second button on the desktop interface. Everytime you want to click the second mouse button you just have to move the mouse pointer over a little button icon and click on it. That's a pretty clever solution. Even better: with this technique you can install an arbitrary number of mouse button on your mouse. That's something MS Windows won't have for the next 10 years. In fact, propably for the next 20 year 'cos Apple is trying to pantent this stuff.

New Interface Can Suck My...

[falcon203e]

I can't believe it. The title bars make me want to puke, and the metalled Finder just looks stupid. Metal should only be used for single-window applications, otherwise they just interfere with each other too much. "Disable Metal" better be a System Prefs option somewhere. Exposé looks interesting, but I wish we'd get a real explanation of what it was. Finally, the pictures where you can see items selected in the Finder are severely dissappointing. You'll notice that the names of the items are circled in blue (this might be okay) but the icons themselves are shadowed by a box! Thats terrible! If you want to show off Quartz Extreme, shade the icons like they used to! The new progress bar looks sweet, though (if that is what it is). Blue pulsing ones get hard to judge.

And yes, I am rating these as a theme, so don't go moaning about how an OS is what's under the hood, not just a pretty interface.

Re:Gnome Themes

[Znonymous Coward]

The world is a pretty fucked up place when someone has to have a fucking trademark on every god dam thing.

Sorry but...

[balaam's ass]

Is there some reason I'm supposed to get excited about screenshots that look essentially IDENTICAL to what v 10.2 already has? I mean... it looks the SAME. I'm a Mac user too, but... BFD.

Re:somebody repair the drain pipe

[mcdade]

And what sort of "leak" has 'censored' material, it's more like a marketing ploy to me. Sad part is that Mac users get all excited about it.

if it's truely a leak, they wouldn't have those pretty censor boxes on the screen.. what pirate is going to photoshop the images cause they don't want people to see 'all of it' when they leak a new product. You don't see cracked warez with portion of the game disabled or MP3 rips with only 3/4 of a song unless it's intentionally leaked or distributed by the company.

get a clue mac people.. it's just a computer, not a way of life..

-b

Re:Metal Sucks. Aqua slightly better.

[//violentmac]

Apple needs to figure out that different doesn't meant better.

A new ceo would help too.

It doesn't seem like there's a lot of new stuff...

[antdude]

I think I will stick with v10.2.6 and upgrade to a major OS like v11.0 when it comes out. v10.3 isn't a major upgrade that I want to get.

PC users of the world

[MasTRE]

Let's all unite and say "wow!"

NOT!

Screenshots? How about system specs?

[axxackall]

How can you judge about OS design and OS changes using just screenshots? IMHO screenshots can illustrate only themes and usability, both are related to UI, not to OS.

I would expect to see something like what are changes in the kernel, drivers, system daemons and libraries - that what makes OS as OS.

But Mac users are so insane about look-n-feel they have in OSX that they think that that look-n-feel is their OS.

What are naive people. Perhaps they never saw OSX look-n-feel in GNOME/sawfish.

I may try to explain it by the fact that historically most of Mac users were graphic designers, who don't understand anything besides look-n-feel anyway. But then I don't understant how comes that designers love the system with UI, which design is delivered for them by Apple and it's delivered in a way they cannot really re-design it (theme changing is not re-designing), while they ignore OS (let's say Linux) with UI (let's say GNOME), which design they can re-design completely?!

All that OSX marketing looks like a brain-washing to me :(

Re:Longhorn 2003

[jbx]

Really? I always thought BSD was the R&D Division that no one at Appl has to pay for. I mean, others may use ideas from Apple, but Apple uses the ideas AND SOURCE CODE from BSD...