appleinsider.com — Apple Inc. has developed an enhancement to its Mac OS X Finder user interface that will allow for different-sized icons within the same window as a means of representing their importance, a recent patent application has revealed. The filing states that, "When the icon sizing is performed according to a user preference, a relative sizing scheme...
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trylleklovnApr 6, 2007
Uhm. No. These effects are for usability only. Mac OS X could be way flashier, but all effects are there so that the user may visualize commands.For instance: Open a folder. The folder will expand from the icon, indicating that it is infact that folder we are opening.Example number 2: Minimize a window, The window will "swoop" into the dock, so that the user actually knows where it is going.There are way more effects like this, that are enhancing the usability of OS X, and they are in no way intended as flashy bling bling stuff.
thickapeApr 6, 2007
what is with the os 9 frame elements in the diagram?
coldfusion1970Apr 6, 2007
I agree with you.I always read people say "fix the Finder", but they never have any clear idea about whats wrong with it.I think the Finder is excellent and so much better than my (limited) experience with Windows Explorer in Boot Camp.All Apple needs to do is add some small refinements like making list view a defaul option for Finder windows.
ghostfreemanApr 6, 2007
wait wait whatI swear i've never seen Nautilus hike up the icon size based on my usage of it in the past...is there some sort of setting I left off?
hermes369Apr 6, 2007
Whatever happened to Piles? I was looking forward to the OS imitating life.
foxymcfoxApr 6, 2007
I remember being able to do this in Panther, and I believe there is a way to do it in Tiger...I know there was some sort of tutorial about how to get Tiger to do this, but I can't seem to find the link now.
hylasApr 6, 2007
This is (very) likely from Copland (the real MacOS 8) Apple cancelled.This was a goldmine for them (while they searched for another OS replacement) they started using pieces of it from System 7.5.5 - MacOS 7.6 on, I believe, it was *cool*, but too ambitious. They rightly threw in the towel to eventually go with NeXT.A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems<a class="user" href="http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter1/pdf/macosxinternals-singh-1.pdf">http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter1/pdf/macosxinternals-singh-1.pdf</a>Apple's Copland Project:<a class="user" href="http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/1108.html">http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/1108.html</a><a class="user" href="http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_22/copland.html">http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_22/copland.html</a><a class="user" href="http://www.byte.com/art/9506/sec8/art2.htm">http://www.byte.com/art/9506/sec8/art2.htm</a>Mac OS 8 Revealed (Copland)<a class="user" href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201479559?v=glance&n=283155">http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201479559?v=glance&n=283155</a>What is Mac OS X 10.0?<a class="user" href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q2/macos-x-final/macos-x-1.html">http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q2/macos-x-final/macos-x-1.html</a>hylas
rygonwanApr 6, 2007
Who the heck would digg this down. People could definitely benefit from following those links.
mennisApr 11, 2007
No.
dragon76May 28, 2007
Apple actually had this in their Finder back as far as Mac OS 8. Third party utilities could activate it.