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New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the unavoidable-future-of-the-desktop dept.

Badgerguy writes "The Supersite for Windows has some shiney-blue looking leaked screenshots of LongHorn. The new screenshots of the 'Aero' interface mainly seem to be concerned with Digital Media integration - which has become deeper still. A new 'SyncManager' screenshot is up there (copying of iSync?) as well as some pictures of LongHorn prototype hardware, which looks like a cross between a desktop PC / Notebook / Tablet PC. "

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  1. Leaked Screenshots???? by TheLostStooge · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nowhere in the article does it say these are actually leaked screenshots. It does say "Here, for the first time, is a gallery of UI prototypes that I believe accurately portrays the "Aero" user interface in Longhorn" I don't think we should qualify this as actual leaked screenshots.

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  2. Re:Yea, it's called Aqua from Mac OSX by proteinaceous · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe you need to play with a Mac a little more.

    "Example - how do you stop the dock from zooming in and out? "Right click" on it? No."

    YES!!! Right click (or ctrl-left click for the one-button mouse) on the dock (not an application or file in the dock) and a menu pops up. Click "Turn Magnification Off". Admittedly, it's a bit tricky to click the dock without clicking on an application/file...but it does work just as you described it should work.

    "Control panel? Don't think so."

    YES!!! That's another way to do it. The Mac equivalent of Control Panel is "System Preferences". Within System Preferences is "Dock". I'm not sure how much more intuitive it can get.

    "Try clicking on a broken X11 app link some time. Does it tell you it's broken? No - it just fades in a nice question mark. Of course if you don't know what that means"

    It means it's a broken link. I don't think that's very unintuitive...but I guess that's my opinion. Do other OS's give better info in a similar situation aside from that fact that it can't find the linked file?

    "There are lots of little things like that, that in my opinion make an OS that is pretty straightforward and predictable"

    You may have a different opinion after playing with it a little more. I "switched" about 6 months ago and have been amazed how much more intuitive it is (among other things). Admittedly, some things are different than Windows, but that doesn't make it less intuitive.