Rumor: Snow Leopard screenshots

There's a post up at World Of Apple today with what seems to be screenshots of interface changes in Snow Leopard build 10A261, which was released in February. Nothing major, but nice little improvements.

For example, there's a re-designed Keyboard Shortcuts control pane that lets users define shortcuts as easily as restore the defaults. Another cool trick is the "Put Back" button available when browsing the contents of the trash from a Finder window. One click restores a previously doomed file to its former location. A stay of execution, if you will. I think that's pretty neat -- veteran Mac users may remember the similar "Put Away" feature, ?-Y, which has gone missing from Leopard (and Macenstein wants it back).

However, I imagine most people will be more excited about an option to browse nested folders within a stack. The screenshot depicts a stack displayed in grid view, its parent (still in grid view) off in a corner.

Unlike the ridiculous "enhancements" that George Lucas made to the original Star Wars movies, I'm looking forward to the tweaking Leopard will receive with version 10.6.

[Via AppleInsider]

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So... what about cut & paste in finder?

February 24 2009 at 11:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rob

It's still no Pathfinder

February 24 2009 at 8:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brian

Not trying to piss off the Mac faithful here, but one feature of Windows that I miss (my only Windows box anymore is my test box at work) is that you can right-click on ANY folder in the trash at ANY time and choose 'restore'. Been there since Win95--coming up on 14 years now. Yes, I'll be happy if Command-Y from System 7/8/9 makes a reappearance, but since I usually undelete immediately after accidentally deleting, command-Z is usually enough. If the Finder can tell me exactly when and where I got a downloaded file so it can nag me the first time I try to open, it for God's sake sure can remember where a file came from before it was trashed. This is one of a thousand features that have no excuse for being absent in 2009.

February 23 2009 at 9:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Allan L.

Would someone please, for god's sake, add a "move to folder" context menu option to the Finder?

February 23 2009 at 5:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Darrell

You'll have to excuse me if I'm not entirely enthused.

February 23 2009 at 5:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Darren

Command+Y is now Quick Look.

The Apple Lisa actually had "Put Away" and "Set Aside" commands, but they worked a little differently (The Lisa doesn't work like the Mac at all, actually). Throughout the years, Steve Jobs has regularly used the "Put Away" and "Set Aside" terminology in his OS X demos, instead of Minimize and Close.

February 23 2009 at 5:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jon

Oh dear... looks like World of Apple has succumbed to the TUAW Effect... it's taking AGES to load for me.

February 23 2009 at 4:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bill Mac

You really prefer that original lame ewok song to the improved "Special Edition" music?.... Don't get me started!

February 23 2009 at 4:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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tcc3

You will not speak ill of the "jub, jub!" song.

That is all.

February 25 2009 at 4:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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