10.5 First impressions - post yours

[fryke]

Use the 2D dock, then. Open Terminal.app and enter the two following commands (you can copy and paste) and hit enter (by hand) after each line.

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

[Thank The Cheese]

Cool little feature:
When you select a file, then hit Return to highlight the filename, the Finder automatically selects *only* the filename and not the extension. that's very handy.

[Lt Major Burns]

Thank the Cheese:

I'm not happy cos it's broken my AirPort connection! turns out, my delicate connection to my airport network was held together by the Interference Robustness in OSX. for no apparent reason, it's not absent in Leopard.

other than that, it works fine, is snappy and pretty much bug free. having said that, this is what i posted in a design forum:

"on the whole, i think it's pretty ugly to look at. the see through menubar is only good if you've got nothing open. which is... never... all other times, it's a dull medly of other colours, and it lacks prominence. the Tiger menu bar was, to be honest, Flawless. 'm not going to say that lightly, but i think it's true.

The unified look: far too dark. i'd like it to be the tone of inactive windows, which are a much more pleasant tone. at the moment, they all look a bit forboding. and the dock is a bit of a mess now. the reflections and shadows and that are impressive enough, but the end result is something that looks a bit cluttered and ugly." like i said, i was looking forward to the new dock...

[gregster]

Use the 2D dock, then. Open Terminal.app and enter the two following commands (you can copy and paste) and hit enter (by hand) after each line.

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

Thanks Fryke, excuse ignorance, but I assume that the 2D dock will revert to the old Tiger type and lose stacks?

[Lt Major Burns]

nah, it's the leopard dock, with a different 'skin' as it were. if you put your dock on the side of the screen, this is what it'd look like. all leopard functionality remains.

[icemanjc]

So, has anybody tried out photo booth? With all the new background and stuff you can do, I heard it was supposed to be good.

[fryke]

and i think it's easily revertable from what the command looks like. a "NO" should do the trick. so no harm in trying...

[jbartlet]

Never thought I'd be posting anything like this. As a developer, I've been running various iterations of the beta on several machines at work, but I wanted an actual retail package just to have (because it's cool and all). So I got it yesterday and went to upgrade my MacBook Pro. I did all the things one does prior to an upgrade, ran Disk Utility, ran a full backup, etc. The install itself was odd. It seemed to hang for long periods (15-20 minutes) several times and then appeared to procede normally. When it finally finished the machine was unable to get all the way to the Desktop. I get the grey Apple logo screen, then just a nice blue screen that never ever gets to the login window. Very odd indeed. I suspect something on the machine is somehow at odds with the startup process. I'll be doing a full erase and install now, but I'm pulling the logs off first so I can see if anything shows up. I'll post again once (if) I know so no one else runs into it. I have some suspicions, but I'll confirm before I jump to conclusions.

Having said all that, the last beta was amazing and I expect the retail release will be even better. And yes, the NDA was officially dropped Thursday.