Roger Fingas
Apple on Monday released a sixth developer beta of OS X El Capitan, further refining the operating system as it rapidly approaches a fall release date.
The new version is listed as build 15A244d, and should be available for registered developers through the Mac App Store's Updates tab, or else the Developer Center Web portal. No significant changes have been announced.
The code is likely similar in character to the fifth beta, released a week ago, which made only minor tweaks and bug fixes. A fourth beta was issued just days prior.
The quick iteration of recent betas may suggest that Apple is nearly done with El Capitan, and only working on polishing code before a public debut.
The software will not be a major upgrade over OS X Yosemite, but will include things like Split View, a better Mission Control, and various performance improvements such as Metal graphics processing.
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Not a major upgrade over OS X Mavericks?... Is that a typo??... Yep, rendering in message view or comment view it says Yosemite.... Not a problem, that is what edit is for! ...or is that editor? ;-))
I've only vaguely been following this. What exactly does a "better Mission Control" imply? I use it constantly and couldn't imagine living without it. I wonder if the changes are going to be significant enough that I'll have to re-learn a bit?
[quote name="AaronJ" url="/t/187467/apple-issues-sixth-beta-of-os-x-el-capitan-to-developers#post_2756283"]I've only vaguely been following this. What exactly does a "better Mission Control" imply? I use it constantly and couldn't imagine living without it. I wonder if the changes are going to be significant enough that I'll have to re-learn a bit? [/quote] If you go here: [URL=http://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/]http://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/[/URL] and scroll down a bit you'll get to a section regarding Mission Control. The key differences seem to be: [list] [*]For the view that shows all your windows in the current space (aka Exposé), the way this works appears to be being taken back to pretty much how it worked in OS X 10.3, which is when the feature was first introduced. I'm very happy about that because I've never liked any of the "improvements" that Apple made to it since then. [*]Spaces are now simply listed by name at the top of the screen, with no visual preview (saves space to make more room for Exposé) [*]It is now "easier" to move windows to new spaces [/list]
WARNING!
If you use Xcode 6.4, it will NOT work on this beta. I upgraded and Xcode crashes immediately on launch. This seems to be a common issue on the developer forums as well.
http://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/
and scroll down a bit you'll get to a section regarding Mission Control.
The key differences seem to be:
It would be great if it were like Spaces (in Snow Leopard). I use the app TotalSpaces2 to almost duplicate what Spaces was like.