While early looks at Leopard have provided focus on the major features announced by Apple, the following minor features may prove to be interesting to day-to-day Mac users. Reports of the Leopard Developer's preview is that it is remarkably solid, and the user interface is more responsive ("snappier") than Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4).
Reports indicate that the Finder and Front Row are exactly the same as the Tiger versions, suggesting that unannounced improvements could be in store for them by Leopard's final release.
The following screenshots highlight new and interesting features:
iChat:
iChat prefs - with auto transcript saving
List of Buddies
iChat File Transfers
Emoticons
User Profile
Safari:
Bookmarks window
Confirm - Safari warning for closing tabs
Confirm #2 - Safari warning for losing Form data
Safari Find - Find hilights words on the webpage
Loading - optional small icon showing load progress. Usual blue progress bar by default.
Window menu
Bookmark Tabs
Spotlight:
Spotlight Window
Spotlight Menu
Spotlight Quick Look.
Misc:
Battery Meter.
Dock Preferences - with addition of "Springing" option.
Invoke expose in Spaces
Finder Prefs - Grid spacing
Preview - improved buttons
Group Move in Spaces - hold command and drag a group of windows.
Leopard Trash Window - now with Empty button
Other Preference Panes: Time Machine Prefs, Spaces Prefs
