Newest known Tiger build: Mac OS X 10.4.3 8F8

[Decado]

i had a nice experience with panthers fast user switching on an old imac. Sure i didnt get the fancy cube-thing, but what i got was instant switching. if Steve Jobs had been in the room he would have said "Bom".

[andychrist]

Okay, so here's a stupid question: Since Tiger will use F keys and hot corners to activate its new features, does that mean that Tiger has abandoned Expose (which is now using the same keys and corners)?

[texanpenguin]

Andychrist:

No; Exposé uses F9, F10 and F11. For ages Dashboard used F12 (and seeing as I'm not a developer, I can't corroborate this for later releases), but at the MWSF keynote, Steve used an icon in the Dock for Dashboard, as is the case on the Apple website video tutorials. As for hot corners, well they've always been optionally set by the user. I have the left corner as Screensaver and the right as Exposé All Windows. Tiger would, I imagine, just add Dashboard to the list of features you can set with the hot corners.

I've noticed on the latest screenshots and videos around the web that the Spotlight button is far nicer and more minimal. Gone are the large blue caps on either side of the bar; gone is the insane shininess of the menu itself. I'm very impressed with the simple new Spotlight launch button. Is this change reflected in the newest developer builds?

Based on the way the Apple site is going into video tutorials on the usage of Tiger's features, I'm seeing it being released in March or April, with possible application updates in minor 10.4.x updates. I'd say that by June we'll be all using 10.4.2 at least.

Of course that's not based on actually USING Tiger.

[fryke]

The F-Keys for Dashboard and Exposé are user-settable. You still can do anything you like with them. Just like Exposé now. Dashboard is in the same preference panel as Exposé.

[andychrist]

Okay, but right now you have four different options (the three different Xpozay actions plus show/hide screen saver) any one of which may be applied to any of your screen's four corners; with the addition of a Dashboard, you won't have enough corners to exercise every possible option using hot corners. I WANT MORE CORNERS GOSHDARNIT!

[fryke]

Hmm... Maybe someone can find you a pentagonal or even octagonal screen... :P ... Do you really USE every Exposé feature?

[mslifkin]

On a PowerBook that has a backlit keyboard, as F9 and F10 are used to control the brightness of the backlight. I guess we'll have to use modifiers (Ctl, shift, Option).

Regards,
Marc

[andychrist]

Yeah, and the F12 is currently the eject on my full size keyboard. Now we need more F Keys to use all the new features of Tiger!

Originally Posted by fryke

Hmm... Maybe someone can find you a pentagonal or even octagonal screen... :P ... Do you really USE every Exposé feature?

You bet I do, especially with my speedy Macally Trackball! Oh well, if I turn one of the lenses of my bifocals 90 degrees it makes my screen appear to have eight corners.