Comments on: Who else is excited about the new Leopard interface?

By: Hanna

Hanna — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:33:02 +0000

I think what is most important about Leopard is CoreAnimation. Apple has added a few applications and features that show the abilities of CoreAnimation, but once developers of Apps and Utilities get their hands on it, we’re going to be seeing a whole new Mac OS X experience. It won’t be terribly unified, unless someone comes up with some Human Animation Guidelines (can we call it HAG?) or maybe there is something already sketched out, but I think developers really have some great opportunities to make applications so much easier to use, not just “flashy”.

Yes, CoreAnimation will be used to add shiny in many inappropriate places, but good interface designers (and I’d like to think we have more of those in the Mac development community, or hope we do) are going to use this in actually revolutionary ways.

Things like Spaces and Stacks and Time Machine are just examples of how CoreAnimation is going to change the Mac OS X experience in Leopard. The behind-the-scenes features are what truly excite me.

Plus, the Finder is (finally) Cocoa now.

I’ve always admired the times where Apple has left places for third-party developers to fill in features. There are more useful tools for developers to create those features that will make Mac OS X a vital and even more useful experience.

People who are unimpressed by what seemed to be a lackluster Keynote are missing, what I believe, to be some of the more important aspects of Leopard. It showed off features that developers will be using to make the Mac more useful and more fun.

I cannot wait.

Love,

Hanna

By: Tensenki

Tensenki — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:01:00 +0000

I don’t get it.

By: Easyldur

Easyldur — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:08:53 +0000

I’m excited! Stack is what I like the most, then QuickLook. The new graphic is clean and coherent and shiny…

I’ve read a lot bad opinions, but I say we should try before saying anything. I still trust Apple’s designers!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:43:06 +0000

I’m so excited for Quick Look, now i’ll never get my p0rn mixed up!

By: ICHOCOBO

ICHOCOBO — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:02:54 +0000

nice update (stack promises a lot), but could it be something more revolutionary and easier to do than integrate quicksilver on the system? wake up apple.

By: FernyB

FernyB — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:18:30 +0000

awesome.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:47:44 +0000

You most likely would be able to change the Dock and the top Finder bar back to the “classic” look.

Leopard will be worth the wait.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:30:36 +0000

Sweet! I can look at my porn even EASIER!

By: cynic821

cynic821 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:16:19 +0000

jeff is an idiot, saying its not groundbreaking ISNT an opinion, thats just a moronic statement, go have fun with vista’s WOW

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:48:15 +0000

To be honest I am not really excited about Leopard I don’t see any major leaps in changes sure all the new stuff looks cool but it’s not ground breaking.

dont bash me it’s my 2c