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The Roadmap to Leopard?

Posted by Zonk on from the includes-stops-for-dennys dept.

Alexandros Roussos writes with a link to the site MacScoop, which claims to have obtained a roadmap for the months leading up to Leopard's release. It's a straightforward article, stating how much access individuals outside the company will have access to the product prior to October. "Major build on early August - In a little more than a month, Apple's development team targets a feature-full build. The build that was provided to developers during the World Wide Developers Conference earlier this month is actually not totally feature frozen. Some minor features are currently being finished for the system. These features will arrive in the August build along with user-interface improvements, sources told MacScoop. If you expect major 'wow' features or interface changes, you will be disappointed. What we may expect is additional settings and [some] user interface polish[ing]. Among the most criticized parts of the new user interface [are] the new menu bar and Dock."

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  1. Re:Please oh please oh please, DITCH STACKS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bullshit. In grid mode, the icons display with file names, and a right-click gets a menu, and one of the items is to open the folder in the Finder. Yeah, there are some rough spots that need fixing up, but because of the NDA I won't go into that. But I figured I'd stretch the NDA a little when I saw blatant misinformation about dock behavior, from someone whom I'm guessing doesn't actually have the beta but is just passing on misunderstood info.

  2. You know... by SvnLyrBrto · · Score: 5, Informative

    > I'm also curious about how they are handling mounted volumes. I noticed
    > that they were not on the desktop anymore (yea! I hate using the desktop
    > for anything but wallpaper).

    You can take HDs, CDs, iPods, servers, and mounted disc images off the desktop right now, if you're so inclined.

    Go to Finder>Preferences, or use command-comma while Finder is the selected app. From there, just uncheck the top three ("Show these items on the Desktop") boxes in the "General" pane. Bamf... nothing on your desktop but what you purposely put there.

    cya,
    john

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    Imagine all the people...