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Re: Software Update for X11
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Re: Software Update for X11


  • Subject: Re: Software Update for X11
  • From: Rich Cook <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 13:19:33 -0800

Well, I'm a bit concerned by the apparent intent to spend the next 8 months working on the next product and not fixing bugs with current software. I see this throughout the OS. OS X still has the feel of a "work in progress, we're getting there" kind of thing, instead of a mature, beautiful OS. I believe that Apple's focus has drifted away from a superlative user experience and is focusing on the "next great thing." Apple does not spend as much time making the user experience really nice as they used to, although they are still the industry leader, of course. I think Apple should forego the purchase of some new company and hire some user interface experts to work on the Finder and Mail apps in particular. I don't need a little Spotlight field in the Finder windows, I need to have .Mac file transfer work faster and smoother, and to be able to make an alias by option- dragging (like in Windows), and to have contextual menus in the Finder that do actual useful things (like in Windows). Spotlight should allow arbitrary actions based on arbitrary filters, and then 3rd parties will come up with great ways to use them. I crave a polished user interface, based on surveys of actual users instead of a small team of software developers who think they know what I should want and have time to implement about 2/3 of that before they go work on the next great idea.

On Nov 2, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Craig Loomis wrote:


With Leopard right around the corner no one should be holding their breath waiting for a patch. But I do hope a fix makes it into Leopard, at least.
In any case, thanks for responding. I didn't realize that the problem was anything more than the timelessly entertaining low- level X11 routines.


 - craig

On Nov 2, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:

Hi all,

As mentioned in the README, this special X11-only update was driven by two urgent issues associated with GLX:

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11update2006.html

though, we did our best to squeeze in additional fixes where feasible. The problem with 8-bit color, unfortunately, is due to lower-level system components that are not part of X11 per se, and thus not appropriate for this Update. We'll see if we can get that fix into a regular Software Update, but with Leopard right around the corner I can't promise anything.

Best,
-- Ernie P.
Mac OS X Product Marketing
Apple

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