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Thursday, February 24, 2011, 03:00 pm
Sources reveal Apple's new-look interface for Mac OS X Lion's Finder, Mail, and other apps
Scroll bar settings, iOS-style switches for menus
As revealed by AppleInsider earlier Thursday, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion features overlay scrollbars similar to those in iOS. If a user's pointing device (such as a TrackPad or Magic Mouse) supports both horizontal and vertical touch scrolling, the scrollbars are hidden during normal use.
Scrollbars will appear as an overlay on top of the window's content while the user is scrolling. The bars will also remain visible briefly after scrolling, to allow users the option to drag the scrollbar.
If a user does not have a device attached that is capable of scrolling, the scrollbars will remain on the screen. In addition, users can turn on the "legacy scrollbar" option in System Preferences.
Other iOS-style elements have also been added to the Mac OS in Lion, with switches that resemble those that might be found in an application on the iPad.
New privacy settings, parental controls
A new privacy section has been added to the Security option in System Preferences. It allows users to choose whether diagnostic data will be sent to Apple, and also whether location services are enabled on their Mac. These options are similar to the location services settings on iOS devices.
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While it does reuse some of the iPad UI It doesn't look like a full on iOS coup of the desktop. It doesn't look bad but until I use it in person I will reserve final judgement.
Not a fan of the iOS style autocorrect, hopefully there is a way to revert it to the style of SL as it is annoying enough clicking the x to close when on my iPhone much less on a computer.
LOVE the auto correct features for Lion!
Address Book actually looks like a book in Lion. Cool! Odd to have the window controls on the left-hand page though.
And speaking of window controls, isn't it interesting that they are all horizontal instead of vertical like in the most recent iTunes version? I wonder if this means iTunes will be going back to the horizontal layout or if it will be the only app from Apple with a vertical configuration. I hope Apple makes the controls horizontal throughout the OS.
Not a fan of the iOS style autocorrect, hopefully there is a way to revert it to the style of SL as it is annoying enough clicking the x to close when on my iPhone much less on a computer.
I like the autocorrect/autocomplete feature on iOS, but I'm not sure I'd have the same appreciation of it working on OS X (i.e., with a full-sized physical keyboard). I'll have to experience it in action.
Not a fan of the iOS style autocorrect, hopefully there is a way to revert it to the style of SL as it is annoying enough clicking the x to close when on my iPhone much less on a computer.
I imagine the 'esc' button will close it.
I'm confused by the new tab control... is the currently selected tab raised and the tab options dimmed and set into the background? That seems exactly opposite of the way that they should behave. If I was first presented with that control I would assume that the one raised tab was the only one clickable. Or am I just misreading these screen shots?
I thought the same. My first reaction was "how can three tabs be selected at once?", until I released they've done the reverse of what's logical and made the selected tab raised.
apple and i appear to have diverging ideas as to where to use colour - when i get a new mac install i always switch the three coloured top left widgets to graphite
was frightened the sidebar will lose its colours after the last itunes update featured the change and am surprised that no other ui elements made their way from itunes - i thought the matte scrollbars would've made an appearance
which leaves me wondering if there are any scrollbars left in the os or is it just a coincidence these screenshots had none (i read elsewhere that scrollbars would appear as needed but i thought that was in full screen mode only)
In general, I LOVE the new UI updates. Definitely looks slicker and more modern. I can only assume they will improve further towards release.
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I'm confused by the new tab control... is the currently selected tab raised and the tab options dimmed and set into the background? That seems exactly opposite of the way that they should behave. If I was first presented with that control I would assume that the one raised tab was the only one clickable. Or am I just misreading these screen shots?