Leopard Fake Screenshot Contest Winners Announced

Austin Sarner writes "Phill Ryu's Fake Leopard Screenshot contest which has been attracting a quite a bit of buzz has just ended and the winners have been announced! While there is a bunch of expected stuff in these screenshots, the entrants did not hold back when it came to trying out crazy stuff — and surprisingly, a good amount of them work great. Ranging from new window styles to a complete rethink of a window based work environment, these are sure to make any UI geek excited. The winners received over $1,000 each in prizes, and were obviously motivated to put out some great stuff. The judges included Wil Shipley, the creator of Delicious Library, David Watanabe, who makes NewsFire and Acquisition, as well as numerous other smaller devs."

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My two wishes for OSX.5

[stubear]

I don't care for fancy visual upgrades, I want two serious propblems fixed in OSX.5. First, I want Apple to have folders merge their contents when files or folders of the same name are encountered. Currently there is no easy way to syncoronize the contents of folders with the same name.

Second, Apple needs to fix their craptastic font handling lack of capabilities. In this day in age it is completely unreasonable to allow fonts to run wild and take entire systems down. Fontbook is a joke and I now see why Extensis wasn't afraid of Apple getting into the font management software business.

These two fixes would go a long way to making OSX a lot more usable for me.

Re:My two wishes for OSX.5

[eclectic4]

"Fontbook is a joke and I now see why Extensis wasn't afraid of Apple getting into the font management software business."

You don't understand. FontBook is not supposed to be some sort of professional font management application. Never was. Suitcase (Extensis) and FontBook are two different applications used for different things. Suitcase is meant to manage a designer/production person's 10,000 fonts, usually through auto-activation... something FontBook does not do nor pretend to. FontBook is for that pseudo designer that has a few hundred fonts on their machine and would like some easy way to turn fonts on and off as they need instead of having all 400 fonts open at once in some user font folder. It's consumer level (thank you Apple for at least something), Suitcase is Pro level and a commercial application (currently $99). You want a free pro font application, I want a Corvette.

"First, I want Apple to have folders merge their contents when files or folders of the same name are encountered. Currently there is no easy way to syncoronize the contents of folders with the same name."

I'm confused (and so would 95% of the computer using market, trust me). Do you want folder synchronization, or do you want folders to automatically merge contents when you attempt to put two folders with the same name in the same place? You need to explain how this would be done,easily, in a completely non-confusing way for all users, etc... because it just doesn't make sense.

Re:Am I the only one...

[DwarfGoanna]

It's a slashdot cliche. Which is sort of funny. Er... to me anyway.

Sort of like "I know this is going to get modded down, but..."

It's just that.... guh. Forget it.

Couldn't resist...

[KlaymenDK]

This is not my normal style, but this *is* /. after all....

hey, Asian girls are cute, I had some images onhand, so that's what I used.

Oh no, you didn't. I bet you had images on screen or in mind, and something else entirely in hand....! ;-)

The first change would be...

[clickety6]

... to get rid of the non-intuitive red/yellow/green buttons and replace them with some meaningful icons !

Re:The first change would be...

[Anonymous Coward]

Durr, so traffic lights should display the words "STOP" and "GO" as well as the lights? Seriously, even color blind people can use traffic lights because -- get this -- they're distinguished by position! The close button is always first, then minimize, then zoom. It's very consistent and most people pick it up very quickly. The colors and flyovers are just reminder cues.

My favourite feature

[tehcyder]

"Cut" added to the Finder Edit Menu on the runner up entry.

I'm sold.