More Mac OS X 10.4 Screenshots?

It seems as if they've released so many screenshots that it couldn't possibly be fake; unless they had way too much time on their hands? Just speculating. I love the idea of Pipeline as I come from the UNIX world where that is known as piping commands.

I hate the "new" Sys Prefs. 10.3 has it right for that, IMO.

Edit: I forgot to include my observation that the version numbers don't have "v" before them, as do all apps from Apple. It's just (58), not (v58). I guess we'll find out Monday.

Edit: Meh, grammar.

yeah... real vs. lot of time on their hands.

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Same stuff, new images. Looks like exactly what the peanut crowd wanted. I still don't like the idea of the gaussian hi-light in the system prefs, but hey, it's not done yet. The hour of truth draws ever nearer!

It seems as if they've released so many screenshots that it couldn't possibly be fake; unless they had way too much time on their hands? Just speculating. I love the idea of Pipeline as I come from the UNIX world where that is known as piping commands.

I hate the "new" Sys Prefs. 10.3 has it right for that, IMO.

Can you explain in laymen's terms what Pipeline would do? Is it just an extension of the Terminal, or would it be a more 'everyday normal user' application?

These don't seem very earth-shattering, whether they are real or not. For the most part, everything seems to be about the same.

The changes in System Prefs are interesting, but I'm not sure what to make of them. I suppose that's a little bit different and might cause some debate.

However, I'm leaning toward someone have too much time on his/her hands. It just seems that an inconsistency like the 'v' thing mentioned above would be the kind that isn't likely from Apple, but much more likely from someone PSing the thing together. But that's just me.

edit: I was just commenting on the GUI. Obviously, new apps like the fabled Pipeline are causing buzz, as they should.

Can you explain in laymen's terms what Pipeline would do? Is it just an extension of the Terminal, or would it be a more 'everyday normal user' application?

It basically seems to connect many applications together, gluing them to perform a more specific task, automatically.

In the UNIX world, we'd use scripts with piping, like this:

balboa:~ will$ app1 | app2 | app3

Which translates to, give the output of app1 to be processed by app2 which will give its output to be processed by app3. Problem with this is that it's obviously very linear, which is solved with "scripts," which allows for decision-making. For example, you noticed a few things in the pipeline screenshot. You can find Items from the Address Book. If I added a few photos to iPhoto and added them to a category, I want to automate the exportation to a HTML gallery, uploading to a web server, informing people by mail, etc. You can combine all that in one single program which is really a script.

Really, really powerful if you take it the correct way. Pipeline just seems to make it easy for the average joe to achieve what UNIX people have been enjoying for years with advanced knowledge of their systems. Of course you could do what I just described in Panther but you'd have to learn AppleScript.

I think the concept is very real and Apple knows it can be an untapped source of power for the average joe to do MUCH more with his computer by automating it.

Edit: Of course I could be totally wrong. We'll see Monday!

Geez, when is this stuff gonna end? At first, these rumors get me giddy but I just don't know if someone is putting out a load of fakes for their amusement. Thank God the WWDC is on Monday... after that all of the new rumors probably will be for the next OS (code name kitty-cat) and/or the the new quad-powered powerbook G7 :rolleyes:

It takes 2 seconds to make an about box from scratch.

It seems as if they've released so many screenshots that it couldn't possibly be fake; unless they had way too much time on their hands? Just speculating.
Edit: Meh, grammar.

Ya, I am starting to agree. I used to think these were fake, but now I think they are real. If they are real though, why no screen shots of the finder, for example?

Exposé:Panther::Pipeline:Tiger perhaps....

If there is a new version of Mail, my biggest request is that it still shows the new mail badge on the dock icon if one of my 'rules' has moved the message out of the main folder into a sub-folder. Here's to Monday! :D