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Leopard Fake Screenshot Contest Winners Announced

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thu Jul 27, 2006 09:54 PM
from the as-good-as-the-real-thing dept.
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Austin Sarner writes "Phill Ryu's Fake Leopard Screenshot contest which has been attracting a quite a bit of buzz has just ended and the winners have been announced! While there is a bunch of expected stuff in these screenshots, the entrants did not hold back when it came to trying out crazy stuff — and surprisingly, a good amount of them work great. Ranging from new window styles to a complete rethink of a window based work environment, these are sure to make any UI geek excited. The winners received over $1,000 each in prizes, and were obviously motivated to put out some great stuff. The judges included Wil Shipley, the creator of Delicious Library, David Watanabe, who makes NewsFire and Acquisition, as well as numerous other smaller devs."
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  • Hmmm (Score:4, Funny)

    by paulius_g (808556) on Thursday July 27 2006, @09:57PM (#15796290) Homepage
    Nothing to see here, move along?

    That's sure the way Apple wants it until WWDC!
    • I see some pretty good ideas there. After Leopard is released, Vista will announce new features for Aero Glass that are either from Leopard or from these ideas. (Did you really think they would ship before WWDC?)

    • I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:5, Funny)

      by megaditto (982598) on Friday July 28 2006, @02:27AM (#15797025)
      The problem with young people today is they utterly lack imagination.

      Having x11 support 2 mouse pointers at once, one per each hand, would seem such a basic thing. I like having multiple windows, multiple desktops, multiple tasks going on, why do I bloody have to click on one at a time. And how about adding tactile feedback to Finder? I want larger files to feel heavier, I want music files to feel sticky...

      Or how about a multidimentional, 3-D or 4-D dock, with focus following your eye direction. After all, MacBooks do have builtin webcams, right? I want to look at the app icon on the dock, blink on it, and get it up!

      And why are we locked into using letters to represent ideas, names, and concepts? Why does a picture file have to be named "blue-duck.jpg", I want to make a 3-D blue bird image to be it's 'name', not a string of ASCII crap. And why can't we search pictures and music files like we should be able to? 'Victoria, high quality, find all the music files with voice of Jerry Springer saying 'hello', find all the pictures containing a girl with red hair?' not so bloody hard now, is it?

      As a great visionary once said, the Internet is not a truck, it's a collection of pipes. So darnit, for my surfing I want to see some pipes, how they connect, and where they lead to, and what they contain. I don't want to read about Lebanon, I want my Mac to be smart enough to convert text not even into a sound, but into a 3-D VR scene re-enactment of the news!

      Why do windows have to look like flat pieces of paper? Why does your computer have to show documents like a typewriter? Why does a PowerPoint have to resemble decades-old slide projector presentations? Why not make it resemble a road, you walk along the road and look at the points along the way, you see what will come next (although less clear), you walk at your own pace, or fly up and see the entire thing? Why do I have to be blindfolded and shown one piece at a time, like dumb cattle lead to a slaughterhouse?

      Why not store the session on a plugged-in iPod like Sun's thin clients used to be able to do 10 years ago? Unplug it, plug into another Mac 1,000 miles away at an airport, and keep same open apps and docs restored instantly? What, macs are too pussy to do that?

      Sorry for the rant, I do not have many years left to my life, I would so much like to experience an OS I can enjoy!
      • I want music files to feel sticky...
        Wouldn't that be porn files? [ducks]
      • The more features you add to an OS the better it is.

        That's what I've learned from this contest.

        Ignore the fact that the finder, like explorer, it's a fucked up hodgepodge of mixed conventions and metaphors... just cram some more features into to it. Tired of having a desktop or dock cluttered with several windows all viewing the same god damn directory? Well now you can have those windows hidden in finder tabs! Weee!! Now you can forget about currently opened windows even faster!! RAM be damned!

        Or what abo
      • As a great visionary once said, the Internet is not a truck, it's a collection of pipes. So darnit, for my surfing I want to see some pipes, how they connect, and where they lead to, and what they contain.

        How could you misquote the great Internet Sage, Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, ForShame.

        No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time.

        They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the inte

      • I want larger files to feel heavier, I want music files to feel sticky...

        Hey, if music files feel sticky, what about the pr0n files?

        "Gaah! What is this thing? It's all sticky and heavy as hell!" "Oh, that's just Roseanne Arnold in a thong singing the Star Spangled Banner..."

        • Also, a 3D re-eanactment of the war in Lebannon would be very informative.

          I know an even better application for this technology. Type

          Me having sex with Jenna J. and Asia C. at the same time

          Convert to 3D-enactment.

    • There is not much to see here, no.

      The mockups were made by fans of Apple, and Apple fans love flashy new features Features FEATURES! That is what you can find in these mockups.

      If you are looking for good UI design, look elsewhere.

      Anyone looking to improve MacOS X should look here first: http://www.asktog.com/ [asktog.com] .

  • Slashdotted already??... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2006, @10:02PM (#15796308)
    I guess that's hosted on the winner of the fake server contest ...

  • Umm.. (Score:5, Funny)

    by William Robinson (875390) on Thursday July 27 2006, @10:04PM (#15796314)
    "Well, this guy sure likes Asian women...

    Good, I stayed away from the contest. Otherwise, he would have easily guessed, that I like Canadian women.

    • Re:Umm.. (Score:5, Funny)

      by daeley (126313) on Thursday July 27 2006, @10:30PM (#15796399) Homepage
      that I like Canadian women.

      This thread is useless without pics, you hoser. ;)

    • Re:Umm.. (Score:4, Informative)

      by shidoshi (567151) on Friday July 28 2006, @12:10AM (#15796714)
      It's funny how much I'm getting ragged on by a few people out there for the amount of Asian girls in my screenshots. One of the things I wanted to show off was the playing movies in the icon support, by far the most vidoe files I have are Asian music videos, so I chose to go with those. For the rest... hey, Asian girls are cute, I had some images onhand, so that's what I used.
      • This is not my normal style, but this *is* /. after all....

        hey, Asian girls are cute, I had some images onhand, so that's what I used.

        Oh no, you didn't. I bet you had images on screen or in mind, and something else entirely in hand....! ;-)

  • Coral Cache Link (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Coral Cache Link [nyud.net]

  • Alternative (Score:5, Funny)

    by wombatmobile (623057) on Thursday July 27 2006, @10:09PM (#15796332)
    The site is currently hosed, but it isn't the only fake leopard site [dentdale.com] out there.
  • I've seen a lot of these ideas before. I remember them from all the Gnome3 and KDE4 mockups floating around. These fake shots do look nice though.

  • My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:5, Insightful)

    by stubear (130454) on Thursday July 27 2006, @10:41PM (#15796429)
    I don't care for fancy visual upgrades, I want two serious propblems fixed in OSX.5. First, I want Apple to have folders merge their contents when files or folders of the same name are encountered. Currently there is no easy way to syncoronize the contents of folders with the same name.

    Second, Apple needs to fix their craptastic font handling lack of capabilities. In this day in age it is completely unreasonable to allow fonts to run wild and take entire systems down. Fontbook is a joke and I now see why Extensis wasn't afraid of Apple getting into the font management software business.

    These two fixes would go a long way to making OSX a lot more usable for me.

    • Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:5, Interesting)

      by tezbobobo (879983) on Thursday July 27 2006, @11:12PM (#15796537) Homepage Journal
      Yeah dude, anyone who needs to manage their fonts beyond the ability of Apple's ability should not be using inbuilt font support on ANY platform. I might suggest Font Agent Pro. I use it all the time I'm working (newspaper designer) and it is th best out there. If suitcase have gotten their shit together, they used to be pretty good. And apparently linotypes new thing is good, but from reports not as good as FAP (free though).

      Merging would be nice.

    • Currently there is no easy way to syncoronize the contents of folders with the same name.

      There's always cp -r.

      saga:~/test rasmus$ find .
      .
      ./test1
      ./test1/a
      ./test1/a/contents-in-test1-a
      ./test1/a/contents-in-test1-b
      ./test1/a/contents-in-test1-c
      ./test2
      ./test2/a
      ./test2/a/contents-in-test2-a
      ./test2/a/contents-in-test2-b
      ./test2/a/contents-in-test2-c
      saga:~/test rasmus$ cp -r test1/a/* test2/a/
      saga:~/test rasmus$ find test2
      test2
      test2/a
      test2/a/contents-in-test1-a
      test2/a/contents-in-test1-b
      test2

    • regarding font management: you might want to take a look at LinoType FontExplorer. [linotype.com]

      it's free and a good contender to the Extensis software, although they still have some polishing to do.

    • I don't get what you mean by "I want Apple to have folders merge their contents when files or folders of the same name are encountered."

      How "encountered"? And how do you want to merge files with folders?

      Eivind.

    • "Fontbook is a joke and I now see why Extensis wasn't afraid of Apple getting into the font management software business."

      You don't understand. FontBook is not supposed to be some sort of professional font management application. Never was. Suitcase (Extensis) and FontBook are two different applications used for different things. Suitcase is meant to manage a designer/production person's 10,000 fonts, usually through auto-activation... something FontBook does not do nor pretend to. FontBook is for that ps
      • This is from a post above so it's not directed at you specifically but giv ethis a shot, "...when you do this OSX wipes the existing folder and replaces it with the new content. Try this. Create a folder on your desktop and place four or five sub folders within it. Copy some image files or whatever you want into this folder and pepper the subfolders with similar content, including subfolders. Copy this folder to another location on your system. Go back to your original folder and remove a few of the files a
    • Personally I wish they'd sort out their virtual memory system.

      I used to use Navicat a great deal - a tool for talking to MySQL databases. Unfortunately it has a bug or two, and when executing some queries it will get into a state where it starts to eat memory and never stops. If you don't notice this is happening then you end up with an unusable machine - the Force Quit dialogue box will come up, eventually, but the machine will essentially be unresponsive. If you're fortunate enough to have a terminal s

    • I want Apple to have folders merge their contents when files or folders of the same name are encountered. Currently there is no easy way to syncoronize the contents of folders with the same name

      I'm guessing that this functionality is provided in either Windows or Linux. I honestly wonder how it works (little experience with Windows and less w/ Linux).

      One possible solution is selecting all the files in a directory (CMD-A is the keyboard shortcut) and moving them into a second directory. In the Finder, yo

      • I don't normally reply to AC's but when you do this OSX wipes the existing folder and replaces it with the new content. Try this. Create a folder on your desktop and place four or five sub folders within it. Copy some image files or whatever you want into this folder and pepper the subfolders with similar content, including subfolders. Copy this folder to another location on your system. Go back to your original folder and remove a few of the files and/or folders. Now, copy this same folder to the same

  • Am I the only one... (Score:4, Informative)

    by DwarfGoanna (447841) on Thursday July 27 2006, @10:44PM (#15796438)
    who thinks that finder looks completely unusable? IANAIDBT (I am not an interface designer by trade), but this really puts the the stupid in Keep It Simple, Stupid. You have to remember that Apple especially would probably like to keep their file browser grandma friendly. I'm sure I could find ways to put something like this to good use eventually, but my first impression was "holy fuck, thats cluttered".

    • Which one? (Score:5, Informative)

      by shidoshi (567151) on Friday July 28 2006, @12:14AM (#15796720)
      For mine (the first place winner), I was trying to show off a lot of different feature ideas, so yeah, my Finder ended up being a bit cluttered. We were limited to five screenshots, so once I factored in the Mail and Safari shots, plus Peek getting its own, I just decided to go all out with one main Finder shot. Obviously, in real-world usage, it wouldn't be so cluttered, and everything would have options for turning said features on or off.
      • Finder in Panther and Tiger is already too cluttered. The Metal Finder with he huge space-wasting tabs on the left side is an abomination, and I actually bought PathFinder to try and get away from it... but Pathfinders's even more cluttered.

        Give me the Jaguar finder, and stick small, inconspicuous, uncluttered Mozilla/Safari style tabs under the toolbar, and I'll be happy. The "shortcut" capability of the Finder tabs is already taken care of by the ability to drag files into the toolbar, so that's really al

  • I especially like the one... (Score:5, Funny)

    by jpellino (202698) on Thursday July 27 2006, @10:58PM (#15796480)
    ... with the animated smoke pouring from the phillryu server mounted on the desktop.
    Oh, that's *real*?
    Oops.
  • Too bad Aquisition is a GPL-violating abomination.

  • BEWARE OF LEOPARD (Score:5, Funny)

    by RelliK (4466) on Thursday July 27 2006, @11:07PM (#15796507)
    (That's our display department.)

  • The first change would be... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by clickety6 (141178) on Friday July 28 2006, @03:31AM (#15797153)
    ... to get rid of the non-intuitive red/yellow/green buttons and replace them with some meaningful icons !
    • Yes, like an X, a minus sign, and a plus sign... You know, the ones that show up when you hover over the buttons? I suppose we could show them all the time instead of just on hover, but I can't see how a plus sign is any more indicative of "resize window to better fit content" than a green circle really...

      And what are all these weird icons in my browser? Two triangles pointing in different directions, a magnifying glass, and a recycling arrow thing? Surely the triangles move the window left and right, the m

        • Re:The first change would be... (Score:4, Informative)

          by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF (813746) on Friday July 28 2006, @08:51AM (#15798251)

          I should not have to hover over an object to find out what it does.

          True, the icons should always be visible and probably a bit bigger.

          Objects should not be distinguished only by colour (hel-LO, heard of colour blindness?)...

          I think you mean, "objects should not be distinguished only by color." They should certainly be distinguished by color. Anyone who has ever instructed remedial users using both windows and OS X knows how much more quickly people understand "click the red one" as compared to "click the X." Also, to be fair, Apple does have a screen mode for the visually impaired that lets you use icons better suited to the color blind.

          That even Apple is consistently failing to meet basic usability standards is a damning indictment of how far their standards have fallen since the days, long ago, when Apple's operating systems were prized for their ease of use, not merely their fluff and eye-candy.

          Apple still does a better job than pretty much every other player, but they have had more UI issues than they used to. They have also made some UI advances as well. This is probably some culture clash from the old Apple folks and the newer UNIX guys they've brought on board. It has made OS X a hybrid, neither as well designed of a UI as it used to have, nor a secure as some of the other UNIX's, but somewhere in between. (Note, this is not, in my opinion, a dichotomy. It can be both more secure and more usable.)

  • ... couldn't fit on a web page, except maybe using VRML.

    http://scarydevil.com/~peter/io/3dworld.html [scarydevil.com]
  • I fired Shapeshifter (theme util) http://www.unsanity.com/ [unsanity.com] , got more than perfect windows XP theme by Max Rudenberg http://www.maxthemes.com/themes/?theme=Mac%20OS%20 XP [maxthemes.com] (free) and fake leopard about box http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 30318 [versiontracker.com] (free)

    That was a perfect plan including opening a archive.org page with Apple advertising G4 as some supercomputer. (They now say Mactel is 4x faster)

    Here is the result which I am not very proud of:
    http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=faketestt [imageshack.us]

  • Bit minimalist (Score:4, Funny)

    by tehcyder (746570) on Friday July 28 2006, @07:48AM (#15797838) Journal
    All I got was a blank white page and a pointer with an hourglass over it.

    Personally, I prefer a slightly richer user experience.

  • My favourite feature (Score:3, Insightful)

    by tehcyder (746570) on Friday July 28 2006, @07:52AM (#15797870) Journal
    "Cut" added to the Finder Edit Menu on the runner up entry.

    I'm sold.

    • I was thinking a text-only screen (perhaps a midnight-commander type interface) -- and a mouse pointer.

      Far more efficient CPU wise than those stupid high-res desktops and far easier to use remotely.

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