“Apple is finally letting go of old windowing conventions that date back to the original Macintosh, allowing users in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to fluidly interact with windows any way they like,” Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.
“Many of these advances were pioneered by iPhone’s iOS, including the removal of full sized scroll bars that tend to take up a significant strip of valuable real estate, particularly on mobile devices,” McLean reports. “As was only hinted at previously, Mac OS X Lion will similarly draw only subtle ‘overlay scrollbars’ when necessary, allowing them to fade away to avoid consuming area within windows.”
McLean reports, “The Mac now gains the ability to resize windows from any edge or corner, similar to features exposed over twenty years ago by Jobs’ NeXTSTEP operating system, but which were removed from Mac OS X in order to preserve the look and feel of the original Mac UI. Lion exposes flexible window resizing without resorting to resize controls however; the edges of windows remain borderless, with only a pointer change indicating the directions a window boundary can be resized.”
Read more in the full article, which includes videos and info on enhanced gestures and new Finder features here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Yes but did they fix the green button?
When was it broken?
They actually are changing what the green button does. It activates full screen application mode.
I personally never had issues with green buttons, except in iTunes. But I think changing it into a full screen button is a lot cooler, easier to understand, and consistent than what it currently does.
No, the green maximize button does the same thing it always has. Full screen mode is entered by clicking on an icon with two diagonal arrows…one pointing to the bottom left, one pointing to the top right….this button is located on the top right of the window.
Resizing windows from any edge is one of the most annoying features of MS Windows; Apple should be able to come-up with something more user-friendly.
wasn’t that the point of the Green button? just blow up the window to tightly (eg. the minimum space able to contain all info) display all the information in the window. But alas, they gave up on this.
At least windoze sufferers will find the window resizing make them feel at home.
Lion is looking good to me. I can’t wait for them to roll out some more features! I love the new gestures they put up on the website.
What’s up with the red, green & amber buttons on the left corner of the window? What the hell are they supposed to do now? Does clicking green maximize to full screen or increase the window to its maximally optimal size? This is going to end up as one confusing mess. And does clicking the red button close the app once the last open window of the app closes? How’s that going to differentiate its behavior from the amber button? Get some consistency Apple. It’s a mishmash.
I’m concerned about your confusion as these buttons have served the same function for 10 years.
Yup, you seem very confused as to the function of the buttons.
Red closes a window, amber minimizes and green fits the window to the content being displayed. Same as it has been since OSX was released.
But I guess you have your troll points for the day.
There are three things I hate about OSX:
1. You have to click on a window before you can click in a window.
2. There is’t a way to close an app with a single click.
3. The three resize buttons never work as expected.
Apple, if you are listening, please fix these.
While you are at it, auto-resume in iOS sucks. Why, for example, would I want to enter the exact same search term into Safari or search for the same restaurant in maps, two days or a week later? Making a history of these things makes sense, but clearing outdated content just adds a redundant step to new tasks. So I hope there is an option to turn it off in the future.
1. That’s not a system issue. It’s an issue for application developers. Some apps require you to bring a window to the front before working in it. Others don’t. For example, when in any application other than the Finder, click on a desktop icon and it will be selected.
2. Why would you care? And by the way there is a way–right click on the dock icon and choose “Quit”.
3. The three buttons always work as I expect. Red closes the window. Amber minimizes it. Green behavior–well I never use the green button.
1) Incorrect in many cases
2) Command Q or right click ONCE on the running app in the dock, move 3 millimeters to the right, selecting quit. Voila: There’s your single-click quit.
3) Is there some unexpected way the “close” and “minimize” buttons should work? Let us know.
If there’s three things that I hate about OSX, it’s when people type OSX (oh-ess-ex) and not OS X (oh-ess-ten). Wait, that’s one thing, but it’s just as annoying as three things. 🙂
“There are three things I hate about OSX:
1. You have to click on a window before you can click in a window.
2. There is’t a way to close an app with a single click.
3. The three resize buttons never work as expected.
Apple, if you are listening, please fix these.”
This is what I hate about PC adopters;
– There is’t a way to close an app with a single click. Umm. Cmd Q works just fine.
-The three resize buttons never work as expected. If you actually understand how the buttons are supposed to work, they work just fine.
You’re not on a f-ing pc, learn how your Mac works.