Coolest feature in Leopard?

[Camel]

Cover-flow of networked computers.

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~perekdr/leopard_windows_easter_egg.jpg

With icons for Windows being a bluescreened monitor.

[Newby]

Notice how all the computers are Windows computers? It's because the world uses Windows.

Suck it, Apple. Should have gotten something that's more pleasing to the eye, since we'll be seeing a lot of those icons. :P

Cover-flow seems to be Apple's new thing. It looks good.

[Warrior]

Coverflow has no practical use outside of the iPhone/iPod Touch.

It's a gimmick anywhere else.

I still think that Leopard is a lack luster release, especially since one of the features they're touting is screen savers.
Then again, they'll still sell them to the hoards of Apple sheep.

[Camel]

I am downloading it now :P

I want it for spaces. I used the developer preview, and I loved that I could put my windows VM in a fullscreen space. apple+left/right to switch between operating systems.

[Newby]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

You can get virtual desktops for XP too. :P

[Warrior]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

You can get virtual desktops for XP too. :P

and it's been availible in Linux since god knows when..

but hey lets call it spaces, give it a whooshy transition and sell it to the sheep.

[Blaze]

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Coverflow has no practical use outside of the iPhone/iPod Touch.

It's a gimmick anywhere else.

I still think that Leopard is a lack luster release, especially since one of the features they're touting is screen savers.
Then again, they'll still sell them to the hoards of Apple sheep.

Coverflow reminds me of that Vista Alt-Tab 3d preview thing...

[CrAz3D]

x86] link=topic=10538.msg134154#msg134154 date=1193360262]
Coverflow has no practical use outside of the iPhone/iPod Touch.

It's a gimmick anywhere else.

I still think that Leopard is a lack luster release, especially since one of the features they're touting is screen savers.
Then again, they'll still sell them to the hoards of Apple sheep.

Coverflow reminds me of that Vista Alt-Tab 3d preview thing...

Windows Tab?

But yeah...

[Warrior]

x86] link=topic=10538.msg134154#msg134154 date=1193360262]
Coverflow has no practical use outside of the iPhone/iPod Touch.

It's a gimmick anywhere else.

I still think that Leopard is a lack luster release, especially since one of the features they're touting is screen savers.
Then again, they'll still sell them to the hoards of Apple sheep.

Coverflow reminds me of that Vista Alt-Tab 3d preview thing...

It's completely different, unless you're relating their both equal uselessness. Both are gimmicks to make people go "ooh".

[zorm]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

You can get virtual desktops for XP too. :P

I use this at work, but sadly it has many annoying bugs especially when using other stupid programs like Excel :(

Also, spaces doesn't strike me as exactly new... My boss and such have had multiple desktops for awhile now but they rotate around a cube...

[Warrior]

#  Float Above Other Applications

Watch a DVD while working in another application. Leopard DVD Player lets you keep your movie at the front of your desktop no matter what else you need to do.


One of the 300 Leopard features.
Where would I be without the ability to have a DVD above other windows???????

Seriously.

[Camel]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

You can get virtual desktops for XP too. :P

Spaces are not virtual desktops. If you use it, you'll be forced to agree that it blows any virtual desktop implementation out of the water.

Also, spaces doesn't strike me as exactly new... My boss and such have had multiple desktops for awhile now but they rotate around a cube...

It isn't a new idea, but they've worked out all the kinks. Beryl is cool, but it's just a window manager. It depends on the idea of virtual desktops, which spaces are not.

[Sidoh]

Since I'm not Apple-savvy, do you mind explaining the difference, Camel?  My friend (who isn't partial to any platform) says it's virtual desktops and nothing more. :\

Edit --

So I watched a video of Steve Jobs demoing spaces.  While I see a few things there that I haven't seen in the Linux virtual desktop implementations I'm familiar with (and I don't make heavy use of virtual desktops, so I don't know much about them), I still think it is a marginally fancier virtual desktop implementation.

[Warrior]

Leopard is a Service Pack.
Don't expect it to have ground breaking features.

I think Vista SP1 may have more in terms of features.

[Sidoh]

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Leopard is a Service Pack.
Don't expect it to have ground breaking features.

I think Vista SP1 may have more in terms of features.

Yeah, I gathered that.  :)