Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Dock 1.6
Appleinsider provides another look at the most recent developer's build of Leopard with a focus on the history and improvements in the Finder's Dock.
It's therefore notable that Leopard sports an entirely new Dock appearance, which now presents its icons as three dimensional objects sitting on a translucent glass shelf, rather than flat objects stuck in a translucent ribbon of icon flypaper. Dock icons now cast a reflection on the Dock (as do other windows on the screen, and even the background image), as well as casting a shadow behind them. The combination of the reflection and the shadow contribute to their dimensional appearance.
Leopard's new dock functionality is perhaps most efficiently explained in Apple's demo video (Quicktime) of the Dock and Finder. Further description and photos available at at Apple.
Mac OS X Leopard is reportedly approaching Gold Master status. According to the most recent checks, Apple had 11 high priority bugs left. Apple has previously announced that they intend to ship Leopard in October.
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I'm pretty excited about leopard's release. I guess everyone here is though :P
i hope they jailbreak it quickly.
har har
Dock's application icons in prominent view in the center of the screen when using Alt+Tab to jump between applications.
CMD+Tab...we're not in Windows!
And what happened to only having 2 known issues with the last release? Did they discover another 9 or something?
I do not like all these reflections in cover flow, finder, and now the dock? I hope I can turn the reflection off.
I am sure we might have that option. But I love how it looks! I have never been more excited about an operating system. I think this OS will be free of bugs when it arrives.
11 high priority bugs left on october 10th? :-/ I'm beginning to not feel so good about an October release...
This is why I feel the typical user should wait for 10.5.1. Of course the developers will look forward to 10.5.0 as a means to see which features finally made it and which were culled at the last minute. Also their key areas will probably have either bugs or feature changes that are needed. For example Apple may have forsaked modems now, but under 9.2 you could turn one off. Under 10.4 if you manually log off a modem the OS insists on redialing and has no option not to, short of pulling the plug. A modem is still the only way to get internet in plenty of places.
So as with any major new OS update, some of the "old" features it lost in the translation need to be re-added so users who have old habits or needs can live life without downgrading to do so.
Rocketman
I'm liking AppleInsider's style of Leopard reviews...but I wish that there was an option to use the old style dock...
CMD+Tab...we're not in Windows!
Or "Apple" + TAB
We're on a Mac!
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