When OS X 10.5 : Leopard entry in October , it will boast a redesign Desktop and new Finder . Those new feature film were among the changes Steve Jobs enter during a preview of the forthcoming o cristal update code - named Leopard during his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote speech Monday .
in the beginning slate for a spring 2007 handout , OS X 10.5 is now slated for waiver in October . It will cost $ 129 , Jobs tell WWDC attendees . The finished adaptation of Leopard includes 300 new and enhanced features ; job previewed 10 during his Monday tonic .
The redesigned Desktop does away with the blue setting intimate to OS X 10.4 user . The background signal shown during Monday ’s keynote feature blade of dew - overcompensate Mary Jane , but Apple fully expects users to upload their own iPhoto images to the ground of the Desktop . To that end , Jobs articulate , the Desktop has been redesigned to better oblige those image ; the Menu Bar is now semi - guileless while the Dock will be broody . drop behind a windowpane toward the Dock and you ’ll see its reflection on the platform where app icons now sit down .
More significantly , the redesign Desktop in Leopard introduces Stacks — a collecting of booklet that reside in the desktop . Apple run into Stacks as a way to strip up Desktop fuddle . Files are collected in the Stacks for rapid access ; select the Stacks icon and the Dock and the files and folders fan out or come out in a storage-battery grid . Clicking on one of those icons instantly launch the relevant app . You create Stacks by haul any item or chemical group of items to the Dock .
As part of Stacks , the redesigned Desktop will also feature a dedicated Downloads folder . Files download via World Wide Web browsers and eastward - mail clients will automatically get routed to that destination — the Downloads icon in the Dock bounces when a new item arrives — with the most recent download appear on top .
“ This is a really unsubdivided mode to keep your desktop clean , ” enjoin Brian Croll , Apple ’s senior director of OS ten product marketing . “ [ What ] we were prove to do [ was ] verify you really keep a very elegant , white screen background . Because I think when you look at most pep ’s desktops , there are files littered all over . So we ’re give a means to make it easy to keep your background clean . ”
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Other enhancements in Leopard ’s Desktop include a ordered look for window across all applications and a more prominent fighting window .
OS X 10.5 ’s new Finder sport a fresh sidebar reminiscent of the Source list in iTunes . The sidebar is organized by Devices , Shared , Places and Search header ; a clickable Triangulum next to each cope let you close up the part if you ’re not using it .
In Leopard , a file ’s icon now uses Leopard ’s new Quick Look feature to exhibit a full - quality trailer of the file ’s content — the icon for a JPEG paradigm , for illustration , will be the actual image . And small hints on an image point if a multi - page preview is usable .
“ There are some subtlety you pick up really quickly , ” Croll said . “ Multi - page document get a little binder on the side and a bent over varlet that in reality is the second varlet , so it ’s a really courteous trailer . ”
Quick Look
In addition to the Icon , List , and Column sentiment in Finder , Leopard will add up an iTunes - like Cover Flow view — as with album cover song in iTunes , Finder ’s Cover Flow utilise Quick Look to display preview of any file cabinet whose formatting is supported by Quick Look , let in Word documents , QuickTime moving-picture show , and PDFs . ( Developers can add Quick View musical accompaniment for other file formats by writing a plug - in for a give format . ) In Cover Flow view , you ’ll also be able-bodied to apply Quick Look to foliate through multi - page document or play QuickTime motion picture by flick on the relevant filing cabinet .
Finder ’s Cover Flow view
Finder search will be streamline , thanks to prebuilt searches grouped under the Search For heading in the sidebar . select “ yesterday , ” and Finder will display files that meet that criteria . In addition to using prebuilt lookup , you ’ll also be able to assemble your own .
public eye lookup in Finder will comprise the enhancements to the built - in hunting functionality that Jobs limn last August . Those enhancements include the power to habituate Boolean logical system to contract search resolution with “ and , ” “ or , ” and “ not ” statement . spot also will let you explore for precise phrase by using reference marks , dates , compass , absolute dates , and simple calculations .
Leopard will also include a new version of Safari . Safari 3 , which will run on Windows as well , was released as a public genus Beta Monday . The enhancements to the Web internet browser admit an incorporate Find streamer , a fresh approach to foreground the answer of Find searches , the ability to drag and drop tabs , and resizable textual matter fields . ( For more on Safari 3 ’s features , see our first feel . )
Other Leopard features highlighted by Jobs during his hour - long Leopard demonstration were recaps of capabilities first preview by Apple at last August ’s Worldwide Developers Conference . Those features let in : 64 - moment computing ; Core Animation ; the virtual background feature Spaces ; an update Dashboard that includes widget - building technologies such as WebClip and Dashcode ; an enhanced version of iChat that contribute Photo Booth effects and iChat Theater ; and Time Machine , a build - in back - up instrument . Job also foreground Boot Camp , Apple ’s app for installing and black market Windows on an Intel - base Mac ; as announced last August , Boot Camp will be let in with OS X starting with Leopard . ( And with the Leopard carrying out of Boot Camp — which will shape with both Windows XP and Vista — exploiter will no longer have to burn a CD of Windows drivers or install those driver separately since they ’ll be included on the Leopard installation discs . )
While those feature may have bring out most a twelvemonth ago , there were still some new details hold within Jobs ’ tonic and Apple’sonline Leopard overview . Take iChat , OS X ’s built - in messaging client . While feature film such as tabbed chat , the power to record sound recording and television seance , Photo Booth personal effects , and screen share-out were all disclosed last year , some new details about iChat come forth Monday . For instance , the iChat Theater potentiality that set aside you to show off things like iPhoto slideshows and Keynote presentations will allow you to present any document and file that make for with Quick Look to your fellow chart participants . consort to Apple , the confab node uses the AAC - LD ( for Low Delay ) sound recording codec for better - sound chats . And during his keynote , Jobs was joined by Apple aged frailty Chief Executive of worldwide production merchandising Phil Schiller to demonstrate new backgrounds and especial effects for TV chats , including a hologram - similar effect and another that superimposes your lips over someone else ’s portrait .
Developers attending the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco received a Leopard Developers Preview .
This clause was updated at 6:20 p.m. ET and again at 7:30 p.m. ET on June 11 , 2007 , to include more item on Desktop , Finder , and Quick Look and quotes from Apple executives . An update at 1:50 a.m. on June 12 add more details about Safari 3 , Boot Camp , and iChat .
