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Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like

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In article <c4ah1sFbtiU1@mid.individual.net>, Lloyd Parsons
<lloydp21@live.com> wrote:
> > TaliesinSoft:
> >
> >> First: I like the new form of Spotlight which makes it so much easier
> >> to see exactly what it is going to do.
> >>
> >> Second: I also like the new appearance of the dock which is just
> >> cleaner in appeaarance. I'm one who is somewhat of a minimalist in that
> >> my dock only shows the currently open applications along with Finder
> >> and Trash. I have the dock centered at the bottom of the screen and
> >> configured to not be seen unless selected.
> >>
> >> Third: I like the dark menu with the white lettering along with the
> >> blue accent which highlights the current selectable item. This menu
> >> color scheme haarmonizes nicely with my screen background which is a
> >> picture of a cloud formation.
> >
> > Bzzzzt! That was three, not two!
> >
> > Fact is, everyone but the whiners will like Yosemite. The whiners will
> > be asking if their new iMac can go back to System 6, back to the days
> > when Macs were Macs.
> 
> Whiner checking in...
> 
> I like lots of things about Yosemite and how all the things will come
> together with iOS's new version.  BUT, I'm not enamored at all with the look
> and feel of it, no more than I am with iOS7.  Whoever thought the default
> system fonts should be that thin needs a remedial class in readability.  Not
> to mention the overuse of pale colors and then use shadings of tho
> se pale colors to delineate between sections.  Pure idiocy imo.
> 
> The overall flatness isn't anything good either, but it isn't bad enough that
> I actually care.
> 
> I'll be switching back from the open Beta soon and will continue to run ML
> until the actual release of Yosemite.  IF some much needed look and feel
> changes are made in the actual release I will upgrade.  If not, I'll be
> deciding which OS I'll switch to.  Fortunately for me all of this is just
> toys to play with so it really isn't a big thing to change for the mos
> t part.

Johnny Ive is slowly moving the Apple OSes towards a shadow-style, like
the iPod adverts were.  ;-)


There is nothing wrong with System 6 ... fast, effcient, takes up very
little storage space, and is still much better than anything Microsloth
has managed to "create".  :-p

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Two Yosemite Features I Like TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2014-08-03 22:18 -0500
  Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-04 18:23 -0400
    Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Lloyd Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-08-04 17:50 -0500
      Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-04 19:59 -0400
      Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-08-05 14:14 +1200
    Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-08-05 09:56 +1000
      Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-08-04 21:58 -0500
        Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-08-05 17:15 +1200
    Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 20:10 -0400
      Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-05 06:35 -0400
        Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 07:09 -0400
          Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-08-05 10:15 -0700
            Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-05 17:37 -0400
            Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 18:18 -0400
          Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-05 17:11 -0400
            Re: Two Yosemite Features I Like FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 18:22 -0400

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