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Apple to Release first Tiger Update

Posted by Zonk on from the patch-early-patch-often dept.

Ninj4Bytes writes "AppleInsider is reporting on the first update to Mac OS X Tiger. The update is reported to address 'over three dozen componets, with an emphasis on improving general stability and reliability'. The patch is listed for a mid to late May release."

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  1. Good by Winterblink · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tiger overall is a great upgrade from Panther. It's got some really neat new features and there's bound to be several of them that anyone will use. That being said, important new core features like Spotlight are not working as advertised for many users. Other things, like Quartz 2D Extreme which is desigend to offload almost all the UI work to the GPU, was buggy enough to be disabled in the Tiger release. There's a lot of work there that's relatively unfinished, and I think it's great that Apple's making motions to get things in order mere weeks after its release.

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    1. Re:Good by Winterblink · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Here's another example.

      In the "Welcome to Tiger" booklet that comes with OSX, there's a shot of Tiger's spotlight search bringing back results showing documents, images, settings, etc. Under the photos, they focus on a section where you can blow out the details of individual photos and see the metadata used by the search to find it. Clearly shown in the sample (and indeed demoed by Steve Jobs himself at various keynotes) are the keywords assigned to the photos in the iPhoto software. This has never been searchable on my system, even after a rebuild and repair of permissions by the install disc. Some people are reporting this is fine, while others are having the exact same problem.

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    2. Re:Good by dr.badass · · Score: 4, Informative

      Clearly shown in the sample (and indeed demoed by Steve Jobs himself at various keynotes) are the keywords assigned to the photos in the iPhoto software. This has never been searchable on my system, even after a rebuild and repair of permissions by the install disc.

      I haven't experienced this problem myself, but here are some things you might try, in Terminal:

      mdimport -L will list all of your Spotlight importers -- there should be one for iPhoto, but if there's not, then that's your problem. I don't know why you wouldn't have it, though.

      mdimport -r /System/Library/Spotlight/iPhoto.mdimporter will force Spotlight to reindex everything that that importer can index.

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  2. Re:First patch by Otter · · Score: 4, Funny
    What, they've already released Tiger?

    Yup! Also, Google has announced Google This, Google That and Google Something Else. Now you're caught up for the last six months -- pay attention from here on!

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  3. Re:First patch by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, don't leave him out of the loop like that. For example, SCO is suing IBM! Yep! And apparently Star Wars Episode 3 is coming out NEXT WEEK!

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  4. Let's hope they fix Dashboard by wembley+fraggle · · Score: 4, Interesting
    When I got Tiger, I went and downloaded a bunch of Dashboard widgets to try them out. Later, when my Dasboard launchbar grew to 5 screens of widgets I wanted to remove some from the launchbar. Couldn't figure out how to do it, so I went to apple help.



    This is what Help said: "You cannot remove widgets from the Widget Bar or change their order"



    And that's just plain stupid. I hope they fix that soon.

    1. Re:Let's hope they fix Dashboard by crawdad62 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Just go to ~(username)->Library->Widgets and drag them out.

  5. Hey, maybe they fixed my bug... by Monthenor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I submitted this bug report to Apple the day after Tiger came out. (Bug ID 4104116)

    Summary:
    In Tiger, the iCal Info Drawer becomes an invisible window in Expose's windowing modes when the main window is minimized.

    Steps to Reproduce:
    1) Open iCal.
    2) Open the main iCal window.
    3) Click the "i" button in the lower right (or press command-i) to open the Info Drawer.
    4) Minimize the window.
    5) With iCal as the active application, trigger the Expose "Application Windows" mode.
    6) Mouse over where the Info Drawer would appear if the main iCal window were not minimized.

    A) Now trigger the Expose "All Windows" mode.
    B) Mouse around the empty spots of the screen.

    Expected Results:
    After both step 6 and step B, there should be no window found.

    Actual Results:
    After both step 6 and step B, there is an invisible "window" with no name that can be clicked to activate iCal. It is the approximate size and shape of the iCal Info Drawer.

    Regression:
    OS X 10.4.0 Build 8A428
    iCal 2.0 (1024)

    The bug only occurs IF one is using 10.4.0 AND iCal's main window is open AND the Info Drawer is open AND the main window is minimized. If iCal's main window is open and visible, Expose treats it correctly. If iCal's window is closed, no phantom Expose window appears. If the Info Drawer is closed, no phantom Expose window appears.

    Notes:
    This is obviously not a show-stopping bug, just something very very weird. It does throw off the window-arrangement calculations of Expose, so I suppose it has slight usability implications.

    And once again, as with my iTunes + null separator character bug, it was quickly marked "No Workaround" and I lost privileges to view it. I cannot fathom why they don't want me to see the report again.

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  6. Re:FUD alert! FUD alert! by Winterblink · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you take the developer tools and install them, there is a Quartz 2D Extreme debugger utility that indicates the component is indeed there, but disabled. You can enable it, but some people have said it causes some interesting problems.

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  7. No AntiVirus for Tiger by xactuary · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was at the Apple Store yesterday talking with several employees (wearing very cool spotlight T-shirts) about the lack of AntiVirus for Tiger. They were quite sheepish about the subject and mentioned the training they'd received about how to broach the subject when customers ask about it. The bottom line was that there is no AntiVirus software compatible with Tiger at the moment and that they were to upsell .mac where Apple's servers run AntiVirus on .mac emails. Is this a non-issue? Is it odd that you don't hear much about this? I've read a lot about Tiger over the last six months and that is the first I had heard of this issue.

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  8. Inaccuracy alert! by avalys · · Score: 4, Informative

    You should check your facts before you accuse other people of spreading FUD. If you read the very article you link (at ArsTechnica), you will see confirmation that Quartz 2D Extreme is disabled in Tiger.

    From the second to last pair of paragraphs in your link...

    "There's one final barrier to hardware-accelerated bliss. Quartz 2D Extreme is disabled by default in Mac OS X 10.4.0. That's right, the whiz-bang new technology you just read all about is not actually used in Tiger unless it's explicitly enabled using the Quartz Debug application. Even then, it only applies to applications that are launched after it was turned on. It also appears that Q2DE is re-disabled when you quit the Quartz Debug application.

    Why develop something as impressive as Quartz 2D Extreme and then leave it turned off by default? My inquiries to Apple have gone unanswered, so I can only speculate about the reasoning behind this decision. My best guess is that all of the bugs could not be excised from Q2DE in time for Tiger's launch date, and that it will be enabled by default in a subsequent update--perhaps as early as version 10.4.1."

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  9. Re:This isn't the type of post that belongs on /. by Winterblink · · Score: 4, Informative

    100% of the stories posted on Slashdot don't belong on Slashdot, depending on your perspective. For instance, I don't give a flying fuck about most of the *nix stories posted here, so I:

    a) don't read them
    b) sure as hell don't post in them about how they don't belong on Slashdot

    Now I do this because even though from my perspective I come here for other types of geek news and errata, other people do come here for those types of information. In case you didn't realize, there's a handy feature found in your user profile on Slashdot that allows you to remove items from being shown on your homepage (example: Apple-related news). Give it a try.

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  10. Missing an important step. by MisterSquid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just go to ~(username)->Library->Widgets and drag them out.

    . . . and shoot them. It's the only way to make sure they don't come back.

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  11. Re:This is pretty common... by Chief+Typist · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a simple reason for this -- after the release is declared final, and the GM disk image is created, there is still testing going on.

    During the time that the GM disk is being pressed and shipped, the people in the QA department are finding bugs and engineers are fixing them.

    Apple then distributes the fixes with Software Update after ADC members have time to test the seed (giving them a week or two to do it.)

    -ch