Apple's Illuminous (Aqua v2) to Compete with Aero

tovarish writes "According to Apple Gazette Apple will replace Aqua with a new name (and hopefully looks) called Illuminous. Is Jobs scared of Aero?, does it make sense to go for a new UI now?, has Aqua run out of steam? The answers will probably come later next month(year)."

Comments

Re:Want Finder improvements

[megabulk3000]

Here's an AppleScript which acts like a "refresh" button:

try
    tell application "Finder" to update items of front window
end try

compile it, save it in one of your Scripts folders, and make the AppleScript menulet visible. You could probably also use Butler or QuickKeys or Quicksilver to assign a keyboard shortcut to it.

HTH

Re:Aqua (2001-???)

[KonoWatakushi]

Not to pick on you specifically, but just what is it people expect the Finder to do? Is it a performance issue, or just a dislike regarding the way the interface works?

I expect the Finder to allow me to quickly and efficiently manage my files, with a minimum of surprise, that is all. If you work with a lot of files, you will notice the severe deficiencies in the Finder, especially on network volumes. It can't even keep the contents of a folder straight, with items disappearing, reappearing, and resorting themselves for no apparent reason. You can't move two items from the same folder to different destinations at the same time. Folders don't remember their configuration properly or consistently. Constant hangs with the Spinning Wheel of Death. Double-clicking an item to open it causes a resort on the first click, and then you may open the wrong item. There is even a data loss bug, where you might unknowingly send something to the trash, even when nothing is selected. Really, the list goes on and on, and it is full of serious problems and inconveniences alike. Every time I report these bugs, they are closed as duplicates, and simply ignored.

I'd also question the need for Apple to embrace a more OSS-friendly dev model. They seem to be doing just fine the way they're going now, even better than they were when they released 10.1.

If they could maintain maintain a competitive *nix, this wouldn't be as much of an issue. Look how much development goes into just the Linux kernel; Apple can't even hope to compete on a technical basis, and will only fall further and further behind. This means things like scalable SMP, efficient threading, network file systems, disk drivers (NCQ anyone?), networking, and many other technical things which while not sexy have a great impact on performance. This work simply isn't getting done. Their low-level OS effort would have a much greater benefit if expended on the GUI and interface instead; these are the areas which distinguish MacOS. Microsoft can't even competing with Linux in these areas, and Apple has but a small fraction of their resources.

As it is now, there are an immense amount of bugs, not to mention very poor performance, and it is basically impossible to even contribute fixes to Apple, which is very frustrating. Apple's uncooperative attitude is simply not productive.