Apple yesterday began seeding yet another newer build of the next generation cat of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to Developers. This is the second update to the Developers’ Preview build distributed after WWDC. In addition to an entire host of bug fixes and stability increases, one of the more prominent UI changes is to the Dock and stacks. The “List view” Stacks option is now no longer white, but a HUD-like transparent black. This new UI element has taken over all Dock menus, and is rumored to be the “Marble” interface that has been rumored and which is featured in the fade-away menus of QuickTime X.
- Source: MacRumors: http://bit.ly/35JUz0
Bugs in Mail.app 4.0 related to Exchange support, Exposé compatibility with multiple monitors, and the appearance of the finder’s slider bar have been tweaked as well. Snow Leopard is due to be released to all consumers for $29 for existing Leopard users, and $49 for the Family Pack, and has been dubbed a “Refinement OS”. Further discussions regarding this new build can be found in this MacRumors forums thread.
July 10th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Thank you for informing about this update! Added it to the post and referred to TQB
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http://ijustapple.com/2009/07/snow-leopard-build-10a402-seeded-to-developers/
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July 10th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Thanks for the cool article! I’m wondering – is there any way to scroll in fan view in this build of Snow Leopard?
July 10th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Good question. I just checked: nope, no way for that to be done. In my opinion, Fan view is kind of useless unless you only have 5 or 6 objects in the fan.
July 10th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Yes, it’s a pity, fan view is my favourite so I hope they build in scrolling before Snow Leopard is released…
July 13th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Correction, it’s gonna be $29 for existing Leopard users, not Tiger users. They’re gonna have to pay full.
July 13th, 2009 at 8:27 am
@Kári thanks for the correction. I don’t know why I wrote ‘Tiger’ instead. I have made the change.