AI: 'Snow Leopard' to include rewritten Finder

Now if we can only get them to do the same thing with iTunes....

Much like Chinese Democracy and Duke Nuke'em Forever, I'll believe it when I see it.

Thanks KA. That was helpful. I appreciate you posting.

^what he said^

FINALLY!!!!!

i think over the next year were going to see most of OS X written in cocoa.
form the finder to address book, dvd player etc i think that snow leopard will be attest 80 % cocoa for mostly of the applications. apple has been pushing cocoa hard out for 4 years so i think were gona see OS X turn cocoa, and i hope iTunes as well.

iTunes 8 is currently *partially* carbon, partially cocoa.

This is because of it's dependencies on several of the Quicktime Carbon APIs that have not yet been rewritten.

Apple has already publicly disclosed that they will be releasing their new Quicktime X with full 64-bit support (meaning that it will need to be written in Cocoa as Apple has artificially limited the ability to run 64-bit Carbon applications), thereby allowing for a 64-bit iTunes.

Additionally, Safari in Snow Leopard is a 64-bit application that is running in 32-bit mode as we have seen in the screenshots posted to the web. It is not that they will make a 64-bit version available to us later on down the line. Apple already has this available in Snow Leopard and have it disabled via a checkbox to allow users to have a more favorable web browsing experience until the new plugins can be created.

Not that I personally see what benefit 64-bit *web browsing* brings to the table. That part is more of a "when you are designing websites that *require* accessing more memory and resources than are possible under a 32-bit operating system, you are obviously doing your job very wrong."

So, in all the hubub about "the brick," new MacBooks, and now rumors about improvements in Snow Leopard, where did the "push" notification service for iPhone apps go? Wasn't is supposed to be here in September? Apparently, the reality distortion field has made everyone forget about it...

pplleeaassee make the finder beter for all pro users (liek web developers, coders etc..)


tabbed browsing is a must, the ability to easily show hidden files (for changing htaccess filers and a million other uses) and an integrated terminal are just the tip of the iceberg

also make the sidebar contain all recent folders please

il add more 2moro when i get up!

(oh also spilt view!!! like you get in some linux file browser you can split the view to see two ato once, or when you select two folders at once in column view it does not say "2 folders" but splits effectively so you see the contents of both)

james

While you're at it Apple, please add tabs to Finder windows! Thanks.