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I WAS the One · Aug 14, 2003, 10:59 PM

somebody told me, (Mac tecnhician of Orlando Florida) that he already saw panther in action, and one of the things he liked was that there is no more bouncing icons on the dock, when he cliked on an app icon it spins like the cd burn icon....hello??? it is true??? I think is weird. but who knows!

geekwagon · Aug 15, 2003, 01:55 AM

Not according to any of the websites that have done extensive Panther previews. The zoomrects from double clicking a file/application in the finder have been replaced by a zooming icon now, though.

DBvader · Aug 15, 2003, 02:29 AM

you can turn off bouncing icons in the dock in jag.

sniffer · Aug 15, 2003, 03:43 AM

Not when an app asks for attention unfortunately.

JLL · Aug 15, 2003, 04:01 AM

Originally posted by I WAS the One:
somebody told me, (Mac tecnhician of Orlando Florida) that he already saw panther in action, and one of the things he liked was that there is no more bouncing icons on the dock, when he cliked on an app icon it spins like the cd burn icon....hello??? it is true??? I think is weird. but who knows!

Bouncing was probably turned off, and when he clicked on an app he witnessed the wait cursor while the app opened.

gorickey · Aug 15, 2003, 07:11 AM

He was using 10.4 Build 8I65 (or higher)...

Spheric Harlot · Aug 15, 2003, 07:23 AM

Originally posted by gorickey:
He was using 10.4 Build 8I65 (or higher)...

Wazzat?

gorickey · Aug 15, 2003, 07:33 AM

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Wazzat?

Samanoske · Aug 15, 2003, 09:14 AM

Originally posted by geekwagon:
Not according to any of the websites that have done extensive Panther previews. The zoomrects from double clicking a file/application in the finder have been replaced by a zooming icon now, though.

^^^ --- whaatZ dAt ?

--- ^^^

damn, why did I stop to read those panther threads ...

lenox · Aug 15, 2003, 10:38 AM

There's no spinning icon in the dock, sorry.

But seriously, if the dock icons spun around, wouldn't your full trash icon empty itself accidentally?

iFix Rene · Aug 15, 2003, 12:03 PM

that guy probably ment the zoomeffect that
icons now do in panther

Socially Awkward Solo · Aug 15, 2003, 12:29 PM

Well this is sorta true.

Just before the public Beta of OSX came out I was at Macworld (the one where the cube and pro Mouse came out). They had some internal builds running on the showfloor with Apple tech demoing OSX. The icons in the dock DID spin when an App was being launched. The Apple guys demoing said that it would not do this in the final they were just playing around to see and show off what they could do with the dock.

Luckily they came up with the bounce instead.

natan · Aug 15, 2003, 01:28 PM

Originally posted by DBvader:
you can turn off bouncing icons in the dock in jag.

You can do it in 10.0.x and 10.1.x as well.

OwlBoy · Aug 15, 2003, 03:37 PM

Oh, I wonder if they spin the other way in Australia

-Owl

KidRed · Aug 15, 2003, 03:52 PM

Originally posted by I WAS the One:
somebody told me, (Mac tecnhician of Orlando Florida) that he already saw panther in action, and one of the things he liked was that there is no more bouncing icons on the dock, when he cliked on an app icon it spins like the cd burn icon....hello??? it is true??? I think is weird. but who knows!

Which leg did he pull?

Dale Sorel · Aug 15, 2003, 11:35 PM

Originally posted by sniffer:
Not when an app asks for attention unfortunately.

Huh???:

http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/dockdetox/

Cipher13 · Aug 16, 2003, 12:37 AM

Originally posted by Dale Sorel:
Huh???:

http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/dockdetox/

yourself.

If it isn't an OS option, it doesn't count.

Spheric Harlot · 04:06 AM

Originally posted by Cipher13:
yourself.

If it isn't an OS option, it doesn't count.

Of course it does.

Remember all those hallowed OS 9 options that everybody was bitching about not being in OS X, conveniently forgetting that they'd only been part of OS 9 for a little over a year, having been third-party until then.

-s*

Appleman · Aug 16, 2003, 05:37 AM

Originally posted by lenox:
...wouldn't your full trash icon empty itself accidentally?

That would actually be a nice feature; more or less visualising the real world.

dark3lf · Aug 16, 2003, 05:46 AM

Assuming this isn't a joke, this spinning Dock icon was briefly tested in a dev build earlier than the Public Beta and was demonstrated at MWNY 99 or 00.

mikerally · Aug 16, 2003, 12:35 PM

It would have been MWSF 2000, where Mac OS X DP2 and Aqua was first unvealed and demonstrated (or Perhaps MWNY 2000 with DP3).

Before then, the developer builds for Mac OS X (DP1 and such) actually sported a UI that closely resembled the Mac OS 9 platinum interface.

In the Developer Preview and Public Beta days of Mac OS X, a lot of interface features came and went.

JLL · Aug 16, 2003, 12:42 PM

Originally posted by mikerally:
It would have been MWSF 2000, where Mac OS X DP2 and Aqua was first unvealed and demonstrated (or Perhaps MWNY 2000 with DP3).

Aqua was unveiled in DP3 released at MWSF00.

DP1 and DP2 had Platinum interfaces.

ryju · Aug 16, 2003, 02:18 PM

Originally posted by OwlBoy:
Oh, I wonder if they spin the other way in Australia

-Owl

And in Rand Mcnally people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.

kupan787 · Aug 16, 2003, 02:35 PM

Originally posted by ryju:
And in Rand Mcnally people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.

Just got to love the simpsons

I WAS the One · Aug 17, 2003, 02:36 PM

Originally posted by dark3lf:
Assuming this isn't a joke, this spinning Dock icon was briefly tested in a dev build earlier than the Public Beta and was demonstrated at MWNY 99 or 00.

Thanxs for the information. I really don't know much about software development. I will print this out and show it to him, because somebody's lying about knowing a lot of Panther's functions. So, let's see his face when I show this to him.

(Jezzs! people buy a g4 iMac, and suddenly they are Mac Experts! funny huh?)