Okay... I would like everyone who has gripes about the UI in OS X, as it stands, to promptly shut up about it. Used the prototype interface? Great! Have a suggestion about new …

it's rediculous to think of the desktop in either win or macos as a hack. it is simply a finder/winexplorer window that displays the content of a folder. -cotton

Okay, maybe "hack" isn't the right word exactly, but it certainly isn't normal behavior per the rest of the Finder's methods. Instead of dispaying the folder and its contents norm…

Actually, I think "hack" is a great way of describing it. A hack isn't necessarily something bad, it's more of a MacGuyver-esque show of resourcefulness and an unorthodox way of s…

Quote: Originally posted by Orbit: Actually, I think "hack" is a great way of describing it. A hack isn't necessarily something bad, it's more of a MacGuyver-esque show…

thanks for the correction . . . i thought it looked kinda funky when i typed it ;-)

OK. I haven't used OS X and I'm a little wary of major changes in UI (I HATED Platinum when OS 8 came out, but now System 7 looks antiquated). However, I think OS X is very promisi…

Amen, brutha.

You make a good point about the limits of the desktop, TonyMac. The NeXTstep/OpenStep UI didn't have a desktop, rather it had "shelves" in the workspace/file browser windows (aka …

Well, can't say it wasn't expected but still- the upside is that there WILL be a public beta (or at least that's what it says on the MacNN front page!) Furthermore, even if they w…

Quote: Originally posted by Orbit: Well, can't say it wasn't expected but still- the upside is that there WILL be a public beta (or at least that's what it says on the M…

Well it's nice that they'd rather take the time to develop and test a fully-featured and stable OS than just rush it out the door as quickly as possible. I mean, Microsoft pushed …

This should come as no surprise to anyone. Two months to MacWorld NY and OSX is not even in beta. But I do take expection to the comment of rushing it out the door. We have been wa…

If current Mac users don't want to embrace this OS they can cope- shame on them for the neophobes they've all become. 4 years ago, Mac OS X wasn't even in development, at least no…

I think the thing we will see in the summer is the thing apple was thinking of releasing as 1.0, but they probably realized that it would be better to release it as a beta, showing…