Leopard 9A466

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Major features

  • Spaces
    • For multiple monitors, one space is the area of all of your monitors, and they congregate on your main monitor only when you press the spaces key
  • Time Machine
  • Quick Look
    • Hides when finder goes into the background
  • Stacks
    • "Springing" option
    • You can't change the icon of Stacks yet, so folders are indistinguishable
    • If you have the dock on the side of the screen instead of the bottom, the spring folders don't look the same; you get the bezel effect instead
  • Updated Finder
    • Your computer (root of finder file system) now has an icon corresponding to your Mac model
      • doesn't seem to work for everyone. Works with G4 Quicksilver though, I guess intel macs just suck
    • Column view is sortable!
    • New icons for directories and stuff
    • Coverflow
    • "Item info" on disks on desktop still never updates
    • Alternating row colors in list view
    • Generates thumbnails for images, videos (quicktime components supported), text files, fonts, etc. Uses these for icon view and coverflow
    • "Archive" changed to "Compress", still zip
    • "more" in contextual menu, with "send to bluetooth device", automator, and folder actions
    • Shift + File>Find becomes "find by name"
    • The "all movies" smart folder shows avi and wmv files as well as movs, and surprisingly enough even eyetv recording packages
    • "all documents" will show essentially every file on your disk
  • Updated iChat
    • Background effects broken on non-OEM graphics cards (beachball)
  • Safari 3

Minor features and changes

  • Grammar check in text fields
  • Help menu with spotlight search
  • Bluetooth
    • New, awesome preference pane
    • A2DP support
    • AVRCP support (buggy)
    • Better structured bluetooth menu, adds submenus for the devices, so "Use headphones" shows up under a A2DP device, "Connect to network" under a cell phone, etc
    • Nicer Select Bluetooth Device window
    • Nicer Browse device window
    • Bluetooth phone setup is a lot better now. Comes with support for at least Sony Ericsson GSM/GPRS/3G settings out of the box. And a much cleaner input for username, password, APN, and CID. PAN setup is a lot easier; you had to do everything just right in Tiger to get it to show up in the menu.
  • New, awesome network preference pane
  • New Sharing preference pane
    • Per-user options
    • Per-directory options
    • Integrated with Bluetooth sharing
  • The Airport wifi network browser from the menubar is 100% better. When you click on it it opens instantly and scans for networks and groups them into Open and Secured Networks
  • New desktop image
  • New screensavers: Arabesque, Retro, Security, Shell, Word of the day
  • Screensaver option: "show with clock"
  • New Speech voice: Alex
  • Automator 2.0
  • New Dictionary, adds:
    • Apple Dictionary
    • Wikipedia
    • Shogakukan Daijisen
    • Shogakukan Ruigo Reikai Jiten
    • Shogakukan Progressive English-Japanese Japanese-English Dictionary
  • New DVD Player
  • Updated Mail.app
  • Updated Photo Booth with iChat effects
  • Updated Preview
    • Inspector
    • more Image Correction option
    • color profile options
    • Still no animated gif play option
    • More mark-up/annotation options for PDFs. Insert blank page
    • Menu item and dialog to resize images
    • The selection tool shows selection dimensions
  • Updated Console.app with every-other log line colored
  • Directory Access replaced with Directory Utility and Directory
  • Grab updated, now no longer has option for Cheetah spinning beachball
  • Grapher 2.0
  • Podcast Capture (Requires QuickTime server)
  • .mac syncs your Preferences, Dock Items, and Dashboard Widgets
  • .mac is finally gone from iSync.
  • Terminal.app 2.0
    • Tabs
    • Styles
    • cmd+doubleclick doesn't work anymore for opening URLs, but ctrl+click brings up a context menu that has Open URL
  • hdiutil will now prompt you for the volume password at the shell rather than with a GUI keychain window. Good news for remote mounting DMGs
  • df -h will now default to SI units. use df -H to use real units
  • Cmd+Shift+4 screen capture gives you screen coordinates on the cursor before you start the selection, and gives you dimensions of the selection after you start to select.
  • New spotlight options: "search file name only" and "also search system files"
  • open/save file windows updated with new sidebar, and some more view option. still no support for smart folders
  • Disconnecting the network with a share mounted no longer beachballs the entire computer
  • Comes with Ruby on Rails v1.2.3
  • Comes with Ruby v1.8.6
  • When you plug in a card reader and a memory card with pictures on it you get the Image Capture dialog
  • You can have keyboard-specific modifier key overrides

Appearance changes

  • Dark Unified throughout OS X
    • Brushed metal is dead
  • Drawers replaced by sidebars in Apple apps (Preview)
  • New dock
  • the menu bar is not rounded
  • Battery and Airport icons look dumb
  • The transparent menubar is fucking DUMB
  • User interface resolution (in Quartz Debug) looks better now, UI components are no longer 72dpi bitmaps (are they vector or just larger?)
  • Icons are now 512x512, possibly preparing for user interface resolution or finder cover flow?
  • Best icon ever

Development Tools

  • XCode 3
    • Objective-C 2.0
      • ObjC is now garbage collected! Fuck you, retain/release counts!
    • Cocoa-Python
    • Cocoa-Ruby
  • Interface Builder 3
    • Toolbars!
  • XRay

Bug fixes

  • QuickTime player now shows Core Video image controls for videos on Core Image monitors even if not all monitors are Quartz Extreme
  • Non-integer scaling sizes now work for all video cards

Other changes

  • Classic Environment is gone :(
  • Firewall moved to "Security" preference pane
  • Re-arranged Print & Fax preference pane
  • Ctrl+wheel to zoom has changed to cmd-wheel by default, can be changed in universal access
  • New "Downloads" folder in home folder (and sidebar)

Speed improvements

  • Faster boot, no more "Starting Mac OS X..." with progress bar
  • Faster app launch
  • Spotlight is really really fast, no beachballing
  • Major PDF rendering speed improvements
  • Faster overall

Bugs

  • Major graphical bugs on non-OEM graphics cards
  • Appears to no longer support non-SSL authentication over AFP, breaks debian netatalk (possible also breaks OS 9 appletalk?)
  • I'm still having all kinds of routing problems with Airport.

Notes

  • Looks like Quartz 2D Extreme is still off be default
  • The new Photo Booth/iChat effects are stored as Quartz Composer files in /Library/Compositions/
  • Kernel Version: Darwin 9.0.0b1

Unsorted

Compatibility

Hardware

Works

Buggy

  • ATI Radeon 9600 Pro AGP
    • Graphic artifacts under the mouse cursor
    • Sometimes the cursor disappears, requiring reboot
    • crash on the new Photo Booth/iChat effects
    • ColorSync broken
  • ATI Radeon 7500 Pro PCI
    • Sometimes windows are white

Software

Works

Works, but buggy

  • Wacom tablet driver. Setting the tablet tacking area menu never comes up. Also when I plug in a USB device the tablet will usually stop working
  • Quicksilver. Can't get rid of the dock icon, but everything else works fine.
  • NetNewsWire Lite. Works great, except leaves a 1 unread badge on the dock icon even when everything has been read.

Crash and Burn

  • Money (by Jumsoft)
    • 2007-06-20 I sent them a bug report with the trace and their response is that Money doesn't work in Leopard. Thanks for that.
  • MacFUSE
  • CoRD
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