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Tiger release will be \'biggest in Mac history\'

The next version of the Mac operating system will be the biggest release for developers in the platform's history, Apple says.

Apple Computer's Chris Bourdon recently demonstrated some of the new features in Mac OS X Tiger to a group of developers at the O'Reilly Media Mac OS X Conference, Macworld UK reports.

"Of the next iteration of the operating system he said: 'The good news: It has by far the most features and capabilities than any other release. The bad news: There's a lot to learn, so it's going to take some time to get familiar with it.'"

The O'Reilly conference provided only the second up-close look at Tiger since it was previewed at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June.

Over the past 4 months, the company has worked feverishly to build upon the initial preview release of Tiger, which was also made available at this year's WWDC. As of two weeks ago, new features continued to turn up in fresh builds of the operating system.

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29 Comments

matthewwithanm

said about 19 years ago

Just make highlighted icons look less godawful and move the color labels options to the get info menu and I'll be happy.

jabohn

said about 19 years ago

Quote:

Originally posted by matthewwithanm
Just make highlighted icons look less godawful and move the color labels options to the get info menu and I'll be happy.

While they're at it, perhaps they could fix the Finder so that icons don't move around on their own and that clicking the Zoom button on Finder windows would work correctly.

sjk

said about 19 years ago

Good suggestions.

Speaking of Zoom, anyone else think it's unusual that there's no default shortcut for it?

For 10.2, TinkerTool has an option to "enable dark labels for the display of Desktop icons". I'd like that capability available again for 10.4; darker icon text looks better than dirty white with my Desktop background.

buonrotto

said about 19 years ago

Quote:

Originally posted by jabohn
While they're at it, perhaps they could fix the Finder so that icons don't move around on their own and that clicking the Zoom button on Finder windows would work correctly.

Correctly being zoom to fit or maximize? Well, it needs to be consistent in any case.

Tiger seems to be the next plateau for Apple's long-term OS plans. In some ways even Tiger is going to seem like an OS in transition because the user experience is still changing. But from what I gather about the developer documentation and APIs being exposed to them, it sounds like this is arguably the biggest stepping stone since 10.0/1 in terms of developed code and functionality under the hood.

And I do think we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Finder as we know it. Not that it will totally go away, but that other tools will take similar prominence, and possibly take some of its functionality as well as offer new tools. That seems like the real significance of spotlight IMO.

macrules101

said about 19 years ago

I really really hope they release piles. I think thats an incredibly great idea, that will add plenty of eye-candy and usability, and help identify some easy metaphors for non-computer people. I also think that the dock piles idea is really clever and is an obvious addtion to this. It doesnt seem like this should be too hard. Its basically just a special kind of folder.

-MacRules101

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