[yoyoman]

can we list as many as possible of the new features in panther?

[mitchell_pgh]

I'm sure many of these can be broken down even further, but these are the big ones...

1) Finder
The Finder puts you at the center of your Mac with iTunes-like navigation.

2) Exposé
Slick new Exposé quickly tiles open windows and reveals files on your desktop.

3) iChat AV
iChat AV offers video chat and audio calls with no extra long distance charges.

4) Fast User Switching
Quickly log another user into your Mac without quitting applications.

5) Mail
Speedy Mail adds time-saving features to make contacting folks easier.

6) FileVault
Secure your home folder with encryption a spy would love, AES-128.

7) Preview
Scroll through and search huge PDFs faster than ever before.

8) Font Book
Find, organize and manage all the fonts on your Mac in the new Font Book.

9) Built-in Faxing
Fax anyone in your Address Book from any application that prints.

10) iDisk
Work on remote files from a copy of your iDisk that’s always on your desktop.

11) Xcode
All-new developer tools speed development of Mac OS X applications.

12) Pixlet: High-end Video Codec
Pixlet is the first studio-grade codec for filmmakers. Pixlet provides 20-25:1 compression, allowing a 75MB/sec series of frames to be delivered in a 3MB/sec movie, similar to DV data rates. Or a series of frames that are over 6GB in size can be contained within a 250MB movie. Pixlet lets high-end digital film frames play in real time with any Panther Mac, without investing in costly, proprietary playback hardware.

13) System-wide Enhancements
Panther also improves many of the technologies underlying Mac OS X including graphics, Windows network compatibility and the Unix-based core.

14) Pro Formatting
For instance, when you save a document as PDF, you can choose to compress images, for smaller files when emailing.

15) Works Well with Windows
Panther connects to more corporate networks in Internet Connect, including those using RSA’s SecureID, so you may not need a separate VPN client.

16) Unix-lover Heaven
Panther will include a final X11 client for Unix-based applications, improved NFS/UFS, FreeBSD 5 innovations as well as support for popular Linux APIs, IPv6 and other important acronyms.

[yoyoman]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I'm sure many of these can be broken down even further, but these are the big ones...

1) Finder
The Finder puts you at the center of your Mac with iTunes-like navigation.

2) Exposé
Slick new Exposé quickly tiles open windows and reveals files on your desktop.

3) iChat AV
iChat AV offers video chat and audio calls with no extra long distance charges.

4) Fast User Switching
Quickly log another user into your Mac without quitting applications.

5) Mail
Speedy Mail adds time-saving features to make contacting folks easier.

6) FileVault
Secure your home folder with encryption a spy would love, AES-128.

7) Preview
Scroll through and search huge PDFs faster than ever before.

8) Font Book
Find, organize and manage all the fonts on your Mac in the new Font Book.

9) Built-in Faxing
Fax anyone in your Address Book from any application that prints.

10) iDisk
Work on remote files from a copy of your iDisk that’s always on your desktop.

11) Xcode
All-new developer tools speed development of Mac OS X applications.

12) Pixlet: High-end Video Codec
Pixlet is the first studio-grade codec for filmmakers. Pixlet provides 20-25:1 compression, allowing a 75MB/sec series of frames to be delivered in a 3MB/sec movie, similar to DV data rates. Or a series of frames that are over 6GB in size can be contained within a 250MB movie. Pixlet lets high-end digital film frames play in real time with any Panther Mac, without investing in costly, proprietary playback hardware.

13) System-wide Enhancements
Panther also improves many of the technologies underlying Mac OS X including graphics, Windows network compatibility and the Unix-based core.

14) Pro Formatting
For instance, when you save a document as PDF, you can choose to compress images, for smaller files when emailing.

15) Works Well with Windows
Panther connects to more corporate networks in Internet Connect, including those using RSA’s SecureID, so you may not need a separate VPN client.

16) Unix-lover Heaven
Panther will include a final X11 client for Unix-based applications, improved NFS/UFS, FreeBSD 5 innovations as well as support for popular Linux APIs, IPv6 and other important acronyms.

nice 84 more features to go. probely the metal look is sorta a feature.

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Originally posted by yoyoman:
probely the metal look is sorta a feature.

Dude, thats number 1.

[yoyoman]

Originally posted by Thain Esh Kelch:
Dude, thats number 1.

so add more. we still have over 50 more things lol. I can't think of them but some people probely know it.

[zachs]

- Finder includes side panel for commonly-accessed folders
- Drives can be ejected using an eject icon next to the disk
- Finder windows include an action button for contextual menu functions
- Searching files is now almost instantaneous
- Labels
- Network directory displays all local directories
- iDisk content is stored locally, and syncs with .Mac servers
- Windows can be shrunk and arranged on the screen by hitting a key/mouse button
- iChat AV includes video and voice chat
- Fast user switching lets you switch users with or without a password
- Mail uses WebKit SDK to display HTML in emails
- Mail displays threaded messages
- More options of junk mail blocking
- Mail has a popup to select which address to use for a person
- New open and save dialogs can use list or column view
- Places sidebar displays in open and save dialogs
- Files can be printed via the contextual menu in the Finder
- Option to securely delete files by overwriting them with 7 passes of random data
- Files can be dragged onto windows shrunk by Exposè
- iChat AV includes ability to keep a palette of icons from which you can choose
- Drag a link from Safari directly into an iChat message window
- Print directly onto dozens of supported label stocks from Address Book
- FileVault encrypts your entire home folder with AES 128-bit keys on the fly
- Automatic sign-in using Kerberos authentication
- Option to require a password when awaking from sleep
- Fax button in all print panels
- Preview includes indexed text search - listing results in a table
- Select and copy text from PDF files
- URL support in preview
- Convert any PostScript or EPS file to PDF
- Preview fonts by double-clicking them in the Finder
- Dynamically activate and deactivate fonts to customize which fonts are shown
- Applications don't need to be restarted to see new fonts
- Search for fonts by family and typeface name
- Group effects with fonts to create styles usable in applications
- Seven new fonts
- Automatically save incoming faxes to a specified folder or forward to an email
- Icons and text in the Places sidebar scale dynamically
- Integrated X11 client
- Connects to corporate networks using SecureID
- Better PDF compression
- Pixlet codec for improved QuickTime compression
- FreeBSD 5.0-based UNIX support
- NFS file locking
- Improved SMB support
- ActiveDirectory support
- VPN support

[yoyoman]

Originally posted by zachs:
- Finder includes side panel for commonly-accessed folders
- Drives can be ejected using an eject icon next to the disk
- Finder windows include an action button for contextual menu functions
- Searching files is now almost instantaneous
- Labels
- Network directory displays all local directories
- iDisk content is stored locally, and syncs with .Mac servers
- Windows can be shrunk and arranged on the screen by hitting a key/mouse button
- iChat AV includes video and voice chat
- Fast user switching lets you switch users with or without a password
- Mail uses WebKit SDK to display HTML in emails
- Mail displays threaded messages
- More options of junk mail blocking
- Mail has a popup to select which address to use for a person
- New open and save dialogs can use list or column view
- Places sidebar displays in open and save dialogs
- Files can be printed via the contextual menu in the Finder
- Option to securely delete files by overwriting them with 7 passes of random data
- Files can be dragged onto windows shrunk by Exposè
- iChat AV includes ability to keep a palette of icons from which you can choose
- Drag a link from Safari directly into an iChat message window
- Print directly onto dozens of supported label stocks from Address Book
- FileVault encrypts your entire home folder with AES 128-bit keys on the fly
- Automatic sign-in using Kerberos authentication
- Option to require a password when awaking from sleep
- Fax button in all print panels
- Preview includes indexed text search - listing results in a table
- Select and copy text from PDF files
- URL support in preview
- Convert any PostScript or EPS file to PDF
- Preview fonts by double-clicking them in the Finder
- Dynamically activate and deactivate fonts to customize which fonts are shown
- Applications don't need to be restarted to see new fonts
- Search for fonts by family and typeface name
- Group effects with fonts to create styles usable in applications
- Seven new fonts
- Automatically save incoming faxes to a specified folder or forward to an email
- Icons and text in the Places sidebar scale dynamically

any more that he didnt mention hehe.

[jszrules]

groups in iChat A/V.

anyone know if there were Dock enhancements or AppleWorks improvements?

[subego]

Originally posted by zachs:
- Finder includes...

(Score: 5, Informative)

Thanks!

[natan]

- Option to require a password when awaking from sleep

Cool! I've been hoping for that.

[curmi]

Originally posted by zachs:


- Files can be dragged onto windows shrunk by Exposè

Is this really true? The Apple site doesn't mention it.

Does this mean I could, for example, drag an image from Safari, move to a corner and bring up the exposé little windows, and drop that image on to an open compose window in Mail?

Before dropping on that little window, can I somehow (hovering?) bring that little window to full size, to help me position where I want to drop that image in the compose window?

If 10.3 can do this, there will be no need for xshelf or anything similar to that. No more need to try and get two little windows on screen at once to drag and drop between them...

[Hozie]

Originally posted by curmi:
Is this really true? The Apple site doesn't mention it.

Does this mean I could, for example, drag an image from Safari, move to a corner and bring up the exposé little windows, and drop that image on to an open compose window in Mail?

Before dropping on that little window, can I somehow (hovering?) bring that little window to full size, to help me position where I want to drop that image in the compose window?

If 10.3 can do this, there will be no need for xshelf or anything similar to that. No more need to try and get two little windows on screen at once to drag and drop between them...

Well, it's partially true that we know of. You can definitely drag from the desktop to an Exposé-selected window. We know this because Jobs demoed it at WWDC with a pic he dropped in Mail that way. Whether it works between apps is unknown as of yet. Maybe someone with the dev build will want to chime in?